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Bram Stoker's Notes for Dracula

"DRACULA in Wallachian language means DEVIL."

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Jillian Hess
Oct 28, 2024
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It’s as though Bram Stoker (1847-1912) wrote the story himself—of how his notes were discovered a year after his death in a Pennsylvania homestead barn. There, a family found three trunks: one contained clothes, the second held a bundle of papers, a third revealed desiccated rat corpses.

The bundle of papers proved to be Stoker’s working notes for Dracu…

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