Bram Stoker's Dracula is a Gothic horror novel told through letters, diary entries and newspaper clippings. The solicitor Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to meet Count Dracula, a vampire, who then moves to England, preying on Harker's fiancee Mina and her friend Lucy. A band of men led by the Dutch scholar Professor Van Helsing pursues him back to Transylvania. Stoker drew on folklore and on reading about Eastern European history, including, it is often said, the Wallachian prince Vlad the Impaler. The book established the modern image of the vampire and has inspired countless films, from Nosferatu in 1922 to those with Bela Lugosi and Christopher Lee.
Before and after
- 3 April 1897Rise of Vienna Secession
- 3 April 1897Death of Johannes Brahms
- from 17 April 1897 to 20 May 1897Greco-Turkish War of 1897
- 23 April 1897Birth of Lester B. Pearson
- 26 May 1897Publication of Dracula
- 12 June 1897Birth of Anthony Eden
- 18 June 1897Founding of Kyoto University
- 24 July 1897Birth of Amelia Earhart
- from 16 August 1897 to 5 November 1899Belgian Antarctic Expedition
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- 1909Rise of Futurism
- c. 1910sRise of Dada
The era
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