... life. Those who failed to pass the ordeal, however, faced certain death. These deeds of unrelenting sadism are primarily the key elements in author Bram Stoker's literary transformation of Dracula from cruel tyrant to undead vampire. But these fictitious tales- although in truth ten times as famous as the life ... the prologue of Dracula: Prince of Many Faces by noted scholars and Dracula historians Raymond Mcnally and Radu Florescu. When they first read Bram Stoker's novel Dracula, the two co-authors were not convinced that this famous vampire plot belonged simply to the classical tradi...

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