... with the publication of Sheridan Le Fanu's novelette, Carmilla, in 1872. This work of occult is seen as the direct forerunner of Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) with which it shares the reputation of being the most famous work of the occult. Unfortunately, Carmilla as well as ... arguments with quotations from "The most famous of all vampire stories" as it is described on the back cover of the Oxford edition of Bram Stoker's Dracula, "Dracula is a mirror of its age (published in Victorian Era, 1897), its underlying themes of race, religion, science, superstition ... emotional, without sexua...

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