Count Dracula
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Count Dracula is the title character of Bram Stoker's 1897 gothic horror novel Dracula. He is considered the prototypical and archetypal vampire in subsequent works of fiction. Aspects of the character are believed by some to have been inspired by the 15th-century Wallachian prince Vlad the Impaler, who was also known as Vlad Dracula, and by Sir Henry Irving, an actor for whom Stoker was a personal assistant.
Cover of Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories, a collection of short stories authored by Bram Stoker
Ruins of Whitby Abbey in Whitby. As a creature resembling a large dog which came ashore at the Whitby headland, Count Dracula runs up the 199 steps to the graveyard of St Mary's Church in the shadow of the abbey ruins
Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula in 1931
Castle Dracula
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Castle Dracula is the fictitious Transylvanian residence of Count Dracula, the vampire antagonist in Bram Stoker's 1897 horror novel Dracula. It is the setting of the first few and final scenes of the novel.
Poenari Castle (Trenk, 1860), a stronghold of Vlad Tepes resembling the novel's descriptions of Castle Dracula.
Castle at Törzburg, ill. from Charles Boner
New Slains Castle in Aberdeenshire, a place Stoker often visited.