It is in this town he is hunted by vampire hunters and notably Van Helsing. We see certain people visit his castle in Transylvania until Dracula chooses to haunt a small Yorkshire town in England called Whitby. There isn’t really a main character beyond Dracula himself. Yet, Dracula is also a horror story as well as a story of romance.ĭracula is actually what you would call an epistolary novel, meaning it is mainly told through correspondence, letters and such. Stoker’s Dracula is more broadly a work of gothic literature, adhering to many of these tropes such as the gothic castle, and more.

Many think that Dracula was based on Vlad the Impaler but this has been rejected by many scholars. Much of Bram Stoker’s story is influenced by this original vampire craze, but it’s also likely that Stoker was influenced by Celtic mythology, being an Irish author. This led many officials to exhume bodies, trying to root out vampires in their own society and soon after the legend of the vampire as a societal myth was born and was of course reimagined through literature. Vampires were actually not created by literature but were the result of a ‘vampire craze’ back in the early 1700s, mainly in Serbia and other Eastern European countries. Listed below are our favorite vampire stories you can buy and read today! Dracula (1897) By Bram Stokerĭracula is of course perhaps the original Vampire story albeit not the first mention of blood sucking beasts in literature.

Keep reading to learn more about the vampire genre as well as to find books to satiate your own desire for blood. In this article, we are going to discuss some of our favorite vampire novels out there, ones that defined the genre, and some others you may not be aware of. Part of why it’s hard to define is that vampire stories can fit snugly into most genres, most notably fantasy, horror thrillers, or romance. The genre often deals with themes such as forbidden love, carnal desire, isolation, addiction, and more. The genre is hard to define beyond just literature that has vampires in it.

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