The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Dracula

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ISBN: 9780826417947 | 0826417949
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Copyright: 6/15/2008

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A Casket of Quotes	p. 1
Dracula among Us, or, The Importance of Being Dracula	p. 3
Bram Stoker: The Man behind the Vampire	p. 14
Dracula Rises: The 1897 Publication	p. 22
The Prehistory: Vampire Style - Myths and Legends around the World	p. 24
The Prehistory: Vampire Lit 101 - Lord Ruthven, Varney, and Carmilla	p. 27
The Prehistory: Horror Ancestry - Shelley, Poe, and Stevenson	p. 31
Vlad Tidings!	p. 34
I Am Dracula? Other Possible Models	p. 40
The Verity Vampire: Information in Dracula	p. 43
Rhode Island Red Headlines	p. 46
All the World's a Stage	p. 48
Ten Shakespeare References in Dracula	p. 51
A Whitby Glossary	p. 53
The Novel
The Characters, in Order of Appearance or First Mention	p. 54
The Mystery of Hommy-Beg	p. 55
A Chapter-by-Chapter Breakdown	p. 57
A Map of Romania and Locations in the Book	p. 69
The Real Count Dracula	p. 70
Dracula's Powers	p. 72
Dracula's Weaknesses	p. 73
The Cape, the Bat, and the Sunlight	p. 75
Ten Great Lines from Bram Stoker's Dracula	p. 77
Ten Great Dracula Lines Not in Stoker's Book	p. 79
The Thrill of the Hunt: Dracula as an Adventure Novel	p. 81
Metaphors and Monsters: What Does Dracula Represent?	p. 83
Drop-Dead Sexy: Sex, Sexuality, and Seduction in Dracula	p. 85
Blood Will Out: The "Fluid" Nature of the Novel	p. 89
Publishing History: London, America, Today	p. 92
"Dracula's Guest": The Missing Chapter?	p. 94
Mark Twain Meets Dracula	p. 96
The Six Degrees of Stokeration	p. 98
Vampirism: Psychology, Pathology, and Porphyria	p. 100
Nosferatu: Taking Dracula to the Max	p. 102
Dracula Takes to the Stage	p. 104
Bela to Broadway to Hollywood to Immortality	p. 107
The Count Goes Spanish	p. 115
Universal Horror	p. 117
Dracula or Not? Ten Films in Which the Central Character Isn't Dracula - Or, Is He?	p. 120
John Carradine: A New Kind of Dracula	p. 122
Making the Most of Life: Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein	p. 126
Riding the Crest: The Dracula Ring	p. 128
The Return of Dracula: A Cold-Blooded Vampire for the Cold War	p. 129
Radio-Free Dracula	p. 132
Christopher Lee: The Hammer Horror	p. 135
Interview with the Vampire (Actor)	p. 138
Model Behavior	p. 140
Video Vampire: Dracula on TV	p. 143
The Bloodlines: Dracula's Descendants	p. 146
The Changing Face of Van Helsing	p. 148
The Night Stalkers: Van Helsing's Descendants	p. 150
Counting Up, Part One: Nosferatu Revisited	p. 151
Counting Up, Part Two: Hello, Sexy!	p. 153
Counting Up, Part Three: Bram Stoker's Dracula?	p. 155
Counting Up, Part Four: Batty Draculas	p. 157
Dracula on the Record	p. 158
You Could Die Laughing: The Dracula Spoofs	p. 160
The Wit and Wisdom of Sam Dracula	p. 163
Interviews with Other Vampires	p. 164
Landau as Lugosi	p. 166
Why No Definitive Dracula Film Exists	p. 168
The Ten Best Dracula Movies	p. 169
Puzzle: Putting the Cross in Crossword	p. 170
Classical Drac	p. 172
Dracula Comic Books: Something to Marvel At	p. 173
Dracula Goes Pop	p. 175
The Dracula Tours: Trips to Transylvania	p. 177
"The Dracula Industry": Merchandising	p. 179
The Transylvania Society of Dracula	p. 181
Novel Ideas: Dracula Pastiche	p. 182
The Dracula Stamp of Approval	p. 183
The Undying Count	p. 185
Acknowledgments	p. 186
Answers to Puzzle: Putting the Cross in Crossword	p. 187
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The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Dracula

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