By borderline.babe on Skatehive
"He has had some fearful shock ... and in his delirium his ravings have been dreadful; of wolves and poison and blood; of ghosts and demons; and I fear to say what." I just finished Dracula by Bram Stoker, and what a captivating story it was! Dracula is a classic! 🙏 First published in 1897, it depicts the journey that a group of companions must embark upon after uncovering the existence of vampires. The journey is chronicled through several different characters' diaries, and documents the harrowing task laid out before them: to KILL Dracula! 😱 So this was my first time reading this classic, and I was pleasantly surprised! I had always assumed that Nosferatu was the original vampire to first appear in media, but it turns out it was Dracula. In fact, Nosferatu is based off of Dracula! 🧛♂️ (The notorious Nosferatu in the 1922 classic film. Source: https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Nosferatu) So to learn they Bram Stoker basically invented the mythology of the vampire almost entirely of