meaning what would the world's appinion be on vampires if he did not write dracula?
2006-08-11 07:13:53 · 7 answers · asked by Xander 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
The popularity of Stoker's "Dracula" certainly helped the vampire genre along, but there were vampire stories before "Dracula", and I'm sure there would have been others even without Bram Stoker. I remember reading "Carmilla" years ago and enjoying it quite a bit. That was written 25 years before "Dracula" and is very much in the same, uh, vein.
2006-08-11 14:42:13 · answer #1 · answered by injanier 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bram Stoker actually was greatly influenced by John Polidori's novella Vampyre, which is regarded as the "original" vampire gothic story. The fact that this was the first indicates that someone else probably would have made a more commercially viable book(as Stoker did), and the vampire would exist much in the same context as it does today.
2006-08-11 07:24:53 · answer #2 · answered by eyepublishing 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Vampires would not be as romanticized as he made it out to be in Dracula. I still think that instead of a horror movie Dracula was a love story. Think about it, Elizabetha takes her own life because she didn't want to live without him (we all know that she got tricked into it). Dracula became a vampire because of Elizabetha... wondered the earth for centuries, until he was reunited with her. Like I said... it was a tale of tragic love.
2006-08-11 07:24:38 · answer #3 · answered by Eric 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No Bela Lugosi
2006-08-12 08:41:03 · answer #4 · answered by kimba 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anne Rice would have become a nun.
2006-08-11 07:18:01 · answer #5 · answered by St. Hell 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No Buffy!
2006-08-11 21:58:54 · answer #6 · answered by nightevisions 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
less scary i suppose
2006-08-11 07:17:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋