... Joel Schumacher's The Lost Boys and the series of vampire novels by Anne Rice, and movies such as "Interview with a Vampire" and "Bram Stoker's Dracula", one would believe that vampire appearances are just as common now as they were in the Middle Ages. With the sudden popularity of vampires ... earlier accounts of demons called strix, but they seemed more closely related to witches than vampires. Transylvania became the "home" for vampires when Bram Stoker wrote Dracula in 1897, a story which is loosely based on Rumanian leader Vlad Drakul, who ruled Transylvania in the late 1400's. Evi...

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... , people known as vampire hunters banded together to drive away this plague from the land and put an end to the vampire race. In the late 19th century, Irish novelist, Bram Stoker, published his most famous horror novel Dracula. The main character of the book is Count Dracula, a vampire nobleman who hails from Transylvania and is in search of his next victim ... evil that is Dracula: 'Now God be thanked that all has not been in vain! See! the snow is not more stainless than her forehead! The curse has passed away!' (Stoker 266) Interestingly enough, during the mid-20th century, the vampi...

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