Dracula is one of the most famous and influential horror and vampire books of all time. But there are a few things you probably didn’t know about the Bram Stoker classic. Here is a rundown of just a few things you didn’t know about Dracula.
Stoker was inspired by a short story
One thing you might not know about Dracula is that the inspiration for the book came from a short story that was written as part of competition between Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley and John Polidori. Polidori wrote a piece called The Vampyre which inspired Stoker to write Dracula.
Dracula made a deal with the devil for his powers
In Stoker’s novel, the character of Van Helsing tells us that Dracula got his vampire powers by making a deal with the devil. As he is the lord of vampires and the father of all other vampires, it does make a good deal of sense that Dracula would have had to have made a deal with some devilish force to gain all his powers and dominion over night.
Stoker wrote Dracula after Jack the Ripper
Bram Stoker began writing Dracula in 1890, just two years after Jack the Ripper had been terrorising London. There are links between Stoker’s writing and the murders that Jack the Ripper committed, making the tale of the vampire even more horrifying for those links.
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