A Century of Dracula

10 April 2012 · The Independent (UK)

Arifa Akbar

Bram Stoker Estate account

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Arifa Akbar surveys Dracula’s enduring appeal, literary interpretations and screen transformations, with commentary on how successive actors changed the Count’s menace and sexuality.

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