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Bram Stoker

The Irish author of the 1897 novel Dracula, which drew on existing vampire folklore and travel writing about Eastern Europe to crystallise the modern literary vampire image in Western popular culture.

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Dracula (1897)
Bram Stoker authored Dracula (1897).

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Vampire Folklore
Bram Stoker popularised Vampire Folklore.

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Where Did Vampire Folklore Come From?

Where vampire folklore came from: the 18th-century Serbian panics, misunderstood decomposition, and why the popular porphyria theory is largely rejected.