Collects Tomb of Dracula (1972) #25-35, Giant-Size Dracula #3-5, Dracula Lives #8-11. Step once more inside the Tomb of Dracula for more superior supernatural stories of the Seventies! First, the debut of Hannibal King - a detective with a vampiric secret! Then, Dracula is drawn into a struggle to control the powerful statue of the Chimera! Flash back to Dracula's first meeting with Blade the Vampire Hunter - and when Quincy Harker learns that the...

Also collects Stoker's Dracula (2004) #2-4; material from Marvel Preview (1975) #12, Savage Sword of Conan (1974) #26. Dracula has sired a son! Why does baby Janus have golden skin, and what is his destiny? As Quincy Harker's vampire hunters form an unholy alliance with Anton Lupeski's Satanic cult, the net is closing in: Drac's next meal could spell disaster. And when Dracula meets the devil himself, it's a truly transformative encounter! After centuries...

Starring Jessica Martin as Mina Harker In writing Dracula, Bram Stoker created a universe full of rich characters, dark and foreboding locations, and a tangled web of loyalties, relationships and motivations. Despite the story being fictional -at least one hopes that's the case - many elements within the story were reflections and analogies of the Stoker family and their history. A little over 120 years after the book's original release, Bram's...

Dracula und seine Assistentin Theodora Sachs folgen den Spuren des verbrecherischen Christopher Manderville, die dieses Mal in die Gegend von Wien führen. Dort beabsichtigt der selbsternannte Erbe der geheimen Charles-Darwin-Gesellschaft seine Feinde und Gegner in die Falle zu locken. Auch Dracula wird auf seiner Reise über die Donau von diesem Strudel aus Gewalt und Intrigen erfasst. In der gespenstischen Schädelmühle kommt es schließlich zu...

Der scheinbar größenwahnsinnige Christopher Manderville sieht sich als alleinigen Erben einer einst mächtigen Gesellschaft. Er wagt es, Dracula einige wertvolle Artefakte streitig zu machen, nachdem er einen hinterhältigen Anschlag auf den Zirkel der Sieben verübt hat. Dracula hat kaum eine andere Wahl, als eine seltsame Einladung anzunehmen, von der er weiß, dass sie von Manderville stammt. Es geht noch einmal hinab in die gefährliche Unterwelt...

Dracula is part of a tradition of the “imperial Gothic,” a sub-genre of the late Victorian period that often presented the fear of foreign invasion or loss of power through the lens of the supernatural. And consider: How do more recent vampire stories challenge the racist fears and imperial anxieties of their predecessors?

Examine the folkloric, literary, and historical sources that influenced Stoker's creation of Dracula, including figures like Vlad the Impaler, the demon Lilith, Jack the Ripper, and others. Take a closer look at the Irish and Eastern European folklore traditions that likely inspired Stoker's conception of the vampire.

Meet your experts, Sara and Brittany, and explore Dracula in popular culture, as well as the roots of the vampire in European folklore that preceded Bram Stoker's creation. Close with a consideration of why the vampire is such a seductive yet terrifying monster and why it continues to have such a powerful presence in contemporary media.

Prior to Dracula, most vampires were considered little more than overgrown leeches; so why did Stoker make his vampire an elegant, sophisticated count? Look back to the year 1816. Trace the origins of the prototype for the aristocratic, Byronic vampire that was born in John Polidori's short story The Vampyre.

Vampires have found their way into numerous genres beyond horror and supernatural thrillers. Follow the vampire into the fairy tale and see what kind of shadow his presence casts there. Trace the parallels between vampire stories and several different versions of the famous fairy tales “Bluebeard” and “Snow White.”