On this day in 1847 legendary Dracula author Bram Stoker was born in Ireland. While he wrote a total of 12 novels in his lifetime, his most famous work by far was Dracula. Published in 1897, the book garnered critical success initially but did not achieve peak popularity until well after Stoker's death. The story…
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THE ONE AND ONLY DRACULA, BELA LUGOSI
Happy Birthday to Bela Lugosi (the one and only Dracula as far as I'm concerned) who was born on this day back in 1882.He was from the Lugos region of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and named Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó. As a young man he worked in various stage productions in his home country as well…