The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002.
Dracula, Count
The title character of Dracula, a novel from the late nineteenth century by the English author Bram Stoker. Count Dracula, a vampire, is from Transylvania, a region of eastern Europe now in Romania. He takes his name from a bloodthirsty nobleman of the Middle Ages. To lay the vampire Dracula’s spirit to rest, one must drive a wooden stake through his heart.
