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Period: Jan 1, 1400 to
Dracula Timespan
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Jan 1, 1456
Vlad III the Impaler
Early inspiration for the name of Dracula. Vlad, three-time voivode of Wallachia, was best known for his policy towards the Ottoman Empire and for the exceedingly cruel punishment and tortures he imposed, often impaling his victims on wooden pikes. -
Aug 7, 1560
Elizabeth Báthory
Countess Elizabeth Báthory was a countess from the renowned Báthory family. She is possibly the most prolific female serial killer in history and is remembered as the "Blood Countess" and as the "Bloody Lady of Čachtice". After her husband's death, she and four collaborators were accused of torturing and killing hundreds of girls and young women. The case has led to legendary accounts of the Countess bathing in the blood of virgins in order to retain her youth. -
Vampire (word)
The date when the word 'Vampire' begins circulating in folklore and stories in the english language. -
Carmilla
"Carmilla" is a Gothic novel by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. First published in 1872, it tells the story of a young woman's susceptibility to the attentions of a female vampire named Carmilla. "Carmilla" predates Bram Stoker's Dracula by 25 years and has been adapted many times for cinema. -
Bram Stoker's Dracula (novel)
An 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, featuring as its primary antagonist the vampire Count Dracula. Although Stoker did not invent the concept of vampires, the novel's influence on the popularity of vampires has been responsible for many theatrical, film and television interpretations. -
Nosferatu
Nosferatu is a German Expressionist vampire horror film, directed by F. W. Murnau. The film, shot in 1921 and released in 1922, was in essence an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, with names and other details changed because the studio could not obtain the rights to the novel (for instance, "vampire" became "Nosferatu" and "Count Dracula" became "Count Orlok") -
Count von Count
Count von Count, often known simply as The Count, is one of the Muppet characters on Sesame Street, performed by Jerry Nelson. The Count is a vampire modeled after Count Dracula. -
Castlevania
Castlevania is a video game series created and developed by Konami. Most of the Castlevania video game franchise has been about a war between the vampire hunting family of the Belmonts and Dracula. Almost every hundred years, Dracula is resurrected and the Belmonts must defeat him before he takes over the world. -
Dracula (Film)
Dracula (also known as Bram Stoker's Dracula) is a 1992 horror-romance thriller produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, officialy based on the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. -
Van Helsing
Van Helsing is a 2004 American action/horror film about vigilante vampire hunter Gabriel Van Helsing, written, produced, and directed by Stephen Sommers. Based on a version of the character of Abraham Van Helsing from Irish author Bram Stoker's novel Dracula, the film also incorporates characters from other works such as the film The Wolf Man into the narrative, and draws particularly on literary classics of the gothic horror canon such as Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein.
