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    Ever wonder why we seem to be so fascinated by vampires? Arguably the most recognizable blood-sucker in history, Bram Stoker’s Count Dracula has influenced over a hundred years of vampires in popular culture. Watch this episode of Monstrum to find out how the 1897 novel Dracula inspired other famous horror authors like Richard Matheson and Stephen King, and take a glimpse into how one terrifying creature changed monster history. #dracula #vampire #horror #MonstrumPBS
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    BIBLIOGRAPHY:
    Bram Stoker & the Haunting of Marsh’s Library: An Exhibition in Marsh’s Library Dublin. Curated by Jason McElligott. Marsh’s Library, Dublin, 2019.
    Brown, David and John Scoleri. “Richard Matheson Interview.” The I Am Legend Archive, 2001. iamlegendarchive.blogspot.com/...
    Gerard, Emily. The land beyond the forest: facts, figures, and fancies from Transylvania. 1888.
    Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester. Vol. III, 1790.
    Nußbaumer, Janina. The Vampire in Literature: A Comparison of Bram Stoker's Dracula and Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire. Anchor Academic Publishing, 2014.
    Stoker, Abraham. ‘Abraham Stoker Form of Application of an Author.’ MS Archives of the Royal Literary Fund.
    "Stoker's (Bram) Dracula (Book Review)." The Academy, Vol. 52, No. 1316, 1897.
    Stoker, Bram. Bram Stoker's Notes for Dracula : A Facsimile. Annotate and transcribed by Robert Eighteen-Bisang and Elizabeth Miller. MacFarland, 2008.
    Stoker, Bram. Dracula. 1897
    Vampires: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil. Ed. Peter Day. Rodopi, 2006.
    Williams, Anne. Art of Darkness: A Poetics of Gothic. University of Chicago Press, 2009.
    Wilkinson, William. An Account of the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia with Various Political Observations Relating to Them.1820.

КОМЕНТАРІ • 1,9 тис.

  • @xracingleague
    @xracingleague 4 роки тому +2234

    My fave Dracula lives on Sesame Street, and he counts

    • @scaper8
      @scaper8 4 роки тому +121

      Something I found out later in life, is that many vampire myths include some strange obsessive/compulsive need to count or order things. Like, if your being chased by a vampire throw some grain, they'll have to stop and count them; or thow a rope full of knots in a vampire's coffin and when they awake they won't go out and feed as they spend the whole night undoing the knots.
      When I found that out, I always wondered if The Count was a nod to those myths or just an adorable coincidence?

    • @wystrix439
      @wystrix439 4 роки тому +28

      @@scaper8 i didnt know that, that's pretty funny

    • @eileenicorn
      @eileenicorn 4 роки тому +53

      One, two, three victims - ahahaha 😂

    • @OttoGraff-fu8pj
      @OttoGraff-fu8pj 4 роки тому +34

      scaper8 I thought it was because he was a count

    • @gir3131
      @gir3131 4 роки тому +9

      this comment is awesome

  • @getefix3
    @getefix3 4 роки тому +1005

    to be fair, isnt a wooden stake to the heart everybody's weakness?

    • @STho205
      @STho205 4 роки тому +23

      Zurt ...thus the point in Richard Matheson's "The Night Stalker" 1971/72. Kolchak murders the serial killer with a stake just as the Sheriff arrives. They use that as an excuse to run him out of town, by getting a judge to draw up an arrest warrant...even though an FBI agent helped defeat the vampire and aided on the ritual staking.

    • @ArtofLunatik
      @ArtofLunatik 3 роки тому +3

      Not me

    • @KillsAll.
      @KillsAll. 3 роки тому +20

      Not Chuck Norris

    • @mrferris4379
      @mrferris4379 3 роки тому +13

      Merely a flesh wound.

    • @ajdynon
      @ajdynon 3 роки тому +32

      "Oh, you'd be surprised how many things that kills." - Buffy Summers

  • @paxonite-7bd5
    @paxonite-7bd5 4 роки тому +113

    Dracula: "What is man? A pile of miserable secrets. But enough talk have at you!"

  • @HexManiacLeilah
    @HexManiacLeilah 4 роки тому +130

    Yay for Carmilla!! She's my favorite, too. 🖤🦇

  • @gudldj
    @gudldj 4 роки тому +401

    how can one talk about pop culture vampires and not talk about the vampires of buffy

    • @markmolino6091
      @markmolino6091 4 роки тому +30

      Exactly, that show is iconic.

    • @jasminwithoute1235
      @jasminwithoute1235 4 роки тому +12

      Yes... Buffy! Though she is a slayer

    • @rgbii2
      @rgbii2 4 роки тому +17

      I came down to the comments looking for mention of Buffy :)

    • @arok1979
      @arok1979 4 роки тому +15

      Totally forgot about Buffy. I was looking for any reference to Sookie Stackhouse by Charlaine Harris.

    • @danynes4710
      @danynes4710 4 роки тому +7

      Especially Angel.

  • @kiddknyghtmarez7806
    @kiddknyghtmarez7806 4 роки тому +748

    Thought I'd hear something about Vlad The Implaler.....

    • @lakerosca1090
      @lakerosca1090 4 роки тому +5

      Me to

    • @Dre-yd2xh
      @Dre-yd2xh 4 роки тому +82

      right, she brought up bram stoker, but not who he used as the inspiration for the character lol

    • @nagapandian
      @nagapandian 4 роки тому +6

      This video would have become just as popular as the Vlad the Impaler vid my I Am if it had the same voice as it did

    • @andrewschwartz876
      @andrewschwartz876 4 роки тому +76

      @Olivia Wilson Dracula's name, however, WAS based on Vlad the Impaler, and Stoker did use his reputation for oddity and cruelty as a partial inspiration. Even if the historical person was not the direct inspiration, the video could still mention that common and (in many circles) famous "misconception" , if only to correct it. Don't laugh...discuss.

    • @razvanmantu
      @razvanmantu 4 роки тому +34

      At 2:22 one can see the name of the book she was referring to. Walachia and Moldavia (various political observations). Vlad was on 3 occasions ruler of Walachia.

  • @lincoln3307
    @lincoln3307 4 роки тому +89

    I don't know how this channel showed up on my feed, but I LOVE MONSTRUM !!!!

  • @imjustanalien4712
    @imjustanalien4712 4 роки тому +411

    My personal favorite Dracula was "Alucard" from Hellsing Ultimate.

    • @tareag993
      @tareag993 4 роки тому +3

      Same

    • @hypermaddjxd383
      @hypermaddjxd383 4 роки тому +3

      Preach🙌

    • @biblicallydriven
      @biblicallydriven 4 роки тому +14

      my dumbass just realized it's "Dracula" but reversed

    • @jairusmacomber8374
      @jairusmacomber8374 4 роки тому

      Ditto

    • @KenParrish61
      @KenParrish61 4 роки тому +12

      Alucard (Dracula spelled backward) was Lon Chaney, Jr. character in the 1943 Universal film "Son of Dracula."

  • @MBRSims
    @MBRSims 4 роки тому +140

    Nothing beats Dracula. He may not have been the first, but he is the best. He combines all the scariest, most mysterious and iconic elements of the vampire into one, while having a largely unintentional but intriguing link to a real historical figure who was even more terrifying.

    • @julianluisbangayan2063
      @julianluisbangayan2063 4 роки тому +1

      Matthew BR Sims DIO can beat Dracula

    • @bittersweet6927
      @bittersweet6927 4 роки тому +1

      He was not the first ?

    • @horrorpill
      @horrorpill 4 роки тому +6

      @@bittersweet6927 I think Lord Ruthven or Carmilla could be the first fiction vampire.

    • @kramerfry464
      @kramerfry464 4 роки тому +4

      He could also walk outside during the day. Granted he couldn't feed or use his powers but he could walk with the living. Instantly better than the younglings who can't walk in the sun.

    • @hannahmetzger4880
      @hannahmetzger4880 2 роки тому

      What about Hellsing's Alucard? I'd say he's equally just as good as Dracula, 'cause, in the Hellsing anime, he _is_ Dracula. :3.

  • @tsopmocful1958
    @tsopmocful1958 4 роки тому +151

    I liked how the novel "Interview With A Vampire" went into depth about how it feels to turn into a vampire, and the first experience of having to claw into the soil with bare hands to escape the Sun.

    • @Seleneschild999
      @Seleneschild999 4 роки тому

      I love that book.

    • @laughingvampire7555
      @laughingvampire7555 2 роки тому

      interview with THE vampire, not a vampire

    • @tsopmocful1958
      @tsopmocful1958 2 роки тому

      @@laughingvampire7555 Cheers.
      It's been many years since I read the book or saw the movie.

  • @topsecret770
    @topsecret770 3 роки тому +73

    "What form will vampires take next?" Coronavirus.

    • @JH81187
      @JH81187 3 роки тому +8

      Especially since it comes from Bats!

    • @fynnthefox9078
      @fynnthefox9078 2 роки тому +2

      Karens

    • @CBMOA
      @CBMOA 2 роки тому +1

      Sentence: very funny 😑
      Hardy har har

    • @alexischavez3238
      @alexischavez3238 2 роки тому +1

      Right? Watch us all become dark seekers from I Am Legend after they all got the krippen virus from their so called cancer vaccine, only you know, us with the covid vaccine lol

    • @Thesquareandweird
      @Thesquareandweird 2 роки тому

      @@alexischavez3238 that's not how it works.

  • @ykrum5158
    @ykrum5158 4 роки тому +25

    "Also, vampires now sparkle." 🤣

    • @helentelehowski679
      @helentelehowski679 2 роки тому +2

      That is rediclous. Vampires don't sparkle.

    • @zooemperor3954
      @zooemperor3954 2 роки тому +2

      @@helentelehowski679 you’re right. They burn/fry

    • @matiasdelgado7011
      @matiasdelgado7011 2 роки тому +2

      @@helentelehowski679 Interesting here in Argentina we have a kind of blood sucking zombi called Anchimayen who cast sparkles and can fly. It´s like a fusion between the voodoo zombi and the modern one with that little vampiric quality.

  • @vikasrao1033
    @vikasrao1033 4 роки тому +222

    My favourite version of the vampire has to be the predatory vampires from Steve Niles' 30 Days of Night series. Unlike virtually every vampire story from good ol' Dracula to Twilight's sparkly vampires, it's the only one I can think of (other than The Strain's strigoi) where the vampires are depicted not as seducers/seductresses but more as a distinct species of human that see humans as food and nothing else, just like a real predator-prey relationship. In Niles' own words "what if they don't want to seduce you; what if you're just a resource to them?"

    • @justaname6011
      @justaname6011 4 роки тому +17

      Humans try to fool themselves that they are important, but for nature they're just another mamal

    • @carlo8802
      @carlo8802 4 роки тому +2

      Same here 👍

    • @ArkaeaFCL3
      @ArkaeaFCL3 3 роки тому +13

      You literally took the words out of my mouth lol. I agree with this 100% I always thought that vampires were monsters, not sex symbols. The apex predator who's only prime motivation is to feed.

    • @Dreadnaught89
      @Dreadnaught89 3 роки тому +4

      check out 13 bullets series, its a similar dynamic as 30 days of night but with more supernatural/psychic abilities tagged on.

    • @icydazo6417
      @icydazo6417 3 роки тому +1

      I'm more of a Dio fan thanks

  • @Monfisher
    @Monfisher 4 роки тому +671

    My favorite vampire is one that wants to end the Joestar Bloodline

    • @morrius0757
      @morrius0757 4 роки тому +67

      MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA!

    • @dropkickcorpse
      @dropkickcorpse 4 роки тому +73

      "I REJECT MY HUMANITY JOJO! AND I'M MOVING BEYOND!"

    • @MetYourDestiny
      @MetYourDestiny 4 роки тому +36

      Oho? You’re approaching me?

    • @bonboncheese9661
      @bonboncheese9661 4 роки тому +29

      WWWWWWRRRRRRYYYYYYYY!!!!!!

    • @harlowitter3060
      @harlowitter3060 4 роки тому +19

      I like the Yara-ma-ya-who from Australia. In Aboriginal folklore it's a short, red creature with bloodsuckers on it's fingers and toes.

  • @AlexanderBlues1228
    @AlexanderBlues1228 4 роки тому +62

    I just watched “The Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires”, a 1974 collaboration between the British Hammer studio and Hong Kong’s Shaw Brothers. It’s a Kung fu vampire movie filmed entirely in Hong Kong and starring Peter Cushing as Van Helsing. It’s as ridiculous and glorious as it sounds!

  • @One_Eyed_Man_
    @One_Eyed_Man_ 3 роки тому +47

    3:07 "Carmilla" by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu predated "Dracula" by 26 years, and she could shape shift.

    • @LemurDreamer87
      @LemurDreamer87 3 роки тому +11

      Yeah, I found it kind of strange that Carmilla wasn't really brought up until the end.

    • @matiasdelgado7011
      @matiasdelgado7011 2 роки тому

      @lauren vanvoorhis and Jules Verne wrotten a similar novel before Stoker, but his vampire was a living human with telephatic powers, or something similar. Psych vampire.

  • @tscream80
    @tscream80 4 роки тому +420

    Hmm... Monstrum publishes an episode on Dracula, and Eons publishes one on bats... coincidence? ;)

    • @albatross1688
      @albatross1688 4 роки тому +19

      Interestingly enough I just watched that other vid before watching this one.

    • @santoshp7887
      @santoshp7887 4 роки тому +5

      Get a job

    • @suksmajatikumara5334
      @suksmajatikumara5334 4 роки тому +11

      aren't they both under PBS?

    • @scaper8
      @scaper8 4 роки тому +4

      I was thinking the same thing. Far too early for a Halloween joke, but it seems a bit too on the nose for mere coincidence.

    • @dragatus
      @dragatus 4 роки тому +5

      I think not.

  • @chriswalker9617
    @chriswalker9617 4 роки тому +89

    I would have to say that my favorite vampires would have to be Dracula and Alucard from the Castlevania series. They are two amazing vampires and their history and dynamics between then in certain games and videos is purely heavenly.

    • @VergilTheMenace
      @VergilTheMenace 3 роки тому +5

      yeh ive played the games and watched the anime and.. wow

    • @trevorvanderputten7430
      @trevorvanderputten7430 2 роки тому +4

      @@VergilTheMenace The Anime was a bloody good time.

    • @konstant_ly
      @konstant_ly 2 роки тому +2

      @@trevorvanderputten7430 Extremely so. Especially on the 'bloody' part. Gotta be my favorite vampires in fiction (along with Alucard being one of my favorite characters in fiction in general)

  • @ButterflySeraph612
    @ButterflySeraph612 3 роки тому +10

    It's so fascinating to me how vampires are an amazing example of how folklore, mythology, and legends change through the lens in which they are observed. Honestly, watching this series (and this entire channel in general) brings my literature-obsessed self so much serotonin.

  • @LittleDergon
    @LittleDergon 3 роки тому +8

    I was really hoping this would be a pre-Dracula account of vampires in legends. Hope they make a part 2 and explore the origins more

  • @goncalojesus7583
    @goncalojesus7583 4 роки тому +245

    It would be great if u did an episode about the kelpie, the scottish horse-monster!

    • @lilsus4710
      @lilsus4710 4 роки тому +6

      Ah yes the the water demon who likes to drown kids

    • @goncalojesus7583
      @goncalojesus7583 4 роки тому +2

      @@lilsus4710 Exactly! and not only that, it eats them!

    • @lilsus4710
      @lilsus4710 4 роки тому

      Same!

    • @hazelhazelton1346
      @hazelhazelton1346 4 роки тому +8

      My little murder pony. ^.^

    • @joaquindonoso5481
      @joaquindonoso5481 4 роки тому +7

      @@hazelhazelton1346 My Little Kelpie Murder is Magic

  • @trip2439
    @trip2439 4 роки тому +55

    Dracula is one of my favorite characters of fantasy/mythology.
    If you were to do a video about werewolves, and how they have changed over time, that would be amazing. I LOVE werewolves.

    • @Passions5555
      @Passions5555 4 роки тому +3

      Yeah like how in recent times Vampires and werewolves are shown to be mortal enemies of each other when in past lore not so much. 🤔

    • @TheHornedKing
      @TheHornedKing 4 роки тому +1

      @@Passions5555 Which gave us the ultimate predator: The werepyre.

  • @walrider115
    @walrider115 2 роки тому +2

    I'm a fan of Darren Shan's "Cirque Du Freak" style of vampire. Very underrated.

  • @ericmoore2236
    @ericmoore2236 2 роки тому +1

    I am 57 now but when I was 8 my mom took me to a double feature of Bela Lugosi "Dracula" and "Frankenstein" the highlighting of Dracula's eyes scared the living crap out of me but Frankenstein didn't bother me at all. To this day I still LOVE those old horror films 👏👍

  • @matdrat
    @matdrat 4 роки тому +27

    I second "Let the Right One In." The original Swedish film was beautiful. Also "The Hunger" with Deneuve, Bowie, and Sarandon.

  • @kylekris5798
    @kylekris5798 4 роки тому +42

    My fave vamp character would be Kate Beckinsale’s Selene in the Underworld Saga. Badass and savage af. 🔥✨

  • @rinwatson2057
    @rinwatson2057 3 роки тому +2

    I absolutely adore Louis De Pointe Du Lac, the lost little puppy ♡

  • @ospididious
    @ospididious 3 роки тому +5

    My favorite interpretation of the vampire was in a rarely known book called, "The World On Blood" where vampirism is a genetic mutation that makes non-vampire human blood an addictive drug. It has everything a vampire novel needs and adds the most unique twist I've ever seen.

  • @1Kapuchu100
    @1Kapuchu100 4 роки тому +41

    I do think that Carmilla is my favourite vampire. Equal parts monster and person. I really enjoyed how she appeared like any other person when someone interacted with her, but things were slowly getting stranger and stranger.
    Stoker did a fantastic job with Dracula, and I love the book, but we are so far removed from Dracula that we don't really get to know him as well as we did Carmilla.

    • @scaper8
      @scaper8 4 роки тому +4

      I haven't read _Carmilla_ yet, but I really do need to. Add _Varney the Vampire_ too. As two of the most influential pre-_Dracula_ Victorian vampire stories, both of which influenced Stoker himself, the really should get more love.

    • @horrorpill
      @horrorpill 4 роки тому +1

      I agree. Carmilla is my favorite too. I believe it is the first fiction vampire that introduces deadly alluring aspects about vampire.

    • @MaryamMaqdisi
      @MaryamMaqdisi Рік тому

      Carmilla is amazing

  • @nicolaiveliki1409
    @nicolaiveliki1409 4 роки тому +9

    The (C)RPG Vampire: The Masquerade also had a great impact on the modern understanding of vampires. They've incorporated many different types of vampires, splitting them into clans with different abilities and relationships with the living

  • @rantoy
    @rantoy 4 роки тому +25

    Best Vampire ever. of course it's the one she made sure to over look " Blade"

    • @roswynn5484
      @roswynn5484 3 роки тому +3

      Wait, is Blade a full-fledged vampire or a Dhampir?

    • @gabrielp9646
      @gabrielp9646 3 роки тому +4

      ?? You do realize that Blade's first appearance was in the comic the Tomb of DRACULA, right..?? xDxD

    • @Raccon_Detective.
      @Raccon_Detective. 3 роки тому

      @@roswynn5484
      He's a dhampire which is why he's doesn't need blood and can be in the sun.

    • @roswynn5484
      @roswynn5484 3 роки тому

      @@Raccon_Detective. thanks! Thought so.

    • @garycarpenter2980
      @garycarpenter2980 2 роки тому

      Have you ever seen Blackula the black african vampire....its good but not my cup of.......blood tea

  • @shirahamaK
    @shirahamaK 2 роки тому +1

    You actually gave him his mustache. Thank you. It's a small detail that many forget.

  • @marygebbie6611
    @marygebbie6611 4 роки тому +62

    I'm partial to the vampires of the Buffyverse myself.

    • @TurquoiseInk
      @TurquoiseInk 4 роки тому +3

      Me too!

    • @lillamacsai7699
      @lillamacsai7699 3 роки тому +1

      I'm partial to Buffy too :D

    • @garycarpenter2980
      @garycarpenter2980 3 роки тому +1

      Yeah,I liked the episode where she fought him and they should've brought him back but you know Hollywood

  • @ThereIsNoGodOnlyUs
    @ThereIsNoGodOnlyUs 4 роки тому +11

    Let The Right One In is such a goddamn good movie.

    • @ludettep
      @ludettep 4 роки тому

      Loved that movie, American version worth watching¿

    • @sairbear444
      @sairbear444 4 роки тому +1

      joey flores book is amazing too. Let me in isn’t even half bad

  • @metalmiauws
    @metalmiauws 3 роки тому +8

    Polidori's story the Vampyre was way before mister Stokers one, so he was actually the founding father of the written bloodsucker. That said, hard to say which one is my favorite... In the movies their are 2 that I love, interview and Oldman as Dracula. Books I think I go for the complete vampire chronicles of Anne Rice (her witchbooks are great too).

    • @dumbghost3109
      @dumbghost3109 3 роки тому +1

      yup!!!! to the point that until very recently lord byron (who lord ruthven from the vampyre was based on) was who people thought of when they thought "vampire".

  • @shuichisaihara1946
    @shuichisaihara1946 4 роки тому +8

    Let The Right One In is fantastic!!! Definitely one of my favorite versions of the vampire. If anyone hasn't read it yet, it's definitely worth the read.

    • @jimroberts9327
      @jimroberts9327 3 роки тому +1

      I just watched the movie!

    • @waltwestbrook6651
      @waltwestbrook6651 8 місяців тому

      The original movie is great (who knew cats hated vampires?)and the American remake is surprisingly good.@@jimroberts9327

  • @riderfromthewest
    @riderfromthewest 4 роки тому +32

    I hissed and bared my make believe fangs when you mentioned Twilight!

    • @christophvogel1080
      @christophvogel1080 3 роки тому +1

      I still refuse to accept these "things" as vampires.

    • @Das_Kaenguru
      @Das_Kaenguru 2 роки тому +2

      @@christophvogel1080 well it isn’t that they are no real vampires in twilight….given the volturi for example….it’s just that the cullens are new age hipster vampires trying to convince anybody to drink smoothies and eat salad instead of….you know…people 🤷🏼‍♂️😂

    • @christophvogel1080
      @christophvogel1080 2 роки тому

      @@Das_Kaenguru Fair enough.😂

  • @NewMessage
    @NewMessage 4 роки тому +360

    This channel is gonna be epic come October...
    ...As it is every month.

  • @shafqatishan437
    @shafqatishan437 Рік тому +1

    Nothing beats Bram Stroker's Dracula. It'll always remain the base of comparison for everything in vampire or horror genre in general.

  • @TurquoiseInk
    @TurquoiseInk 4 роки тому +3

    I love vampire stories that have an interesting twist to the myths and complex characters that have very human traits.
    Most underrated:
    Sabella by Tabitha Lee & the Saint-Germain books by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro.
    Other favorites are a quirky list:
    True Blood and the original books. The Parasol Protectorate Vampires. The Buffyverse, especially Angel & Spike. Blade. Lestat from Anne Rice and Alucard from the Hellsing anime. What We Do In The Shadows and Gary Oldman's Dracula. And for sheer fun, Bunnicula & the Count from Sesame Street

    • @pbsstoried
      @pbsstoried  4 роки тому

      Bunnicula!!! Bringing me back 🐇

  • @Imperiused
    @Imperiused 4 роки тому +27

    Let The Right One In is soooo good. You have excellent taste, Emily.

  • @Domdrok
    @Domdrok 4 роки тому +40

    The Vampire the Masquerade RPG is my favorite vampire setting. Plus you kinda got all the different kind of vampires in there.

    • @connorjlavery4196
      @connorjlavery4196 4 роки тому +2

      Tremere is best clan

    • @connorjlavery4196
      @connorjlavery4196 4 роки тому

      @Natasha Minor yus

    • @moch.farisdzulfiqar6123
      @moch.farisdzulfiqar6123 4 роки тому +1

      @@connorjlavery4196 What are this Tremere? The only playable race I see is either Malkavian or Nosferatu, but of course the best one is Malkavian.

    • @kyriss12
      @kyriss12 4 роки тому +1

      Witcher hit all the vampire types as well. plus regis was the chillest vampire ever.

    • @RoxieMarquez_marroxeli
      @RoxieMarquez_marroxeli 2 роки тому

      Yeah I'm surprised there was no mention of VtM, they get pretty deep into some vampire lore.

  • @greygale3760
    @greygale3760 Рік тому +1

    Honestly my favorite vampire/version of Dracula is Grandpa/The Count from The Munsters, I honestly love how they managed to take a character who has been considered to be intrinsically terrifying and made him endearing instead(also it’s a huge part of my childhood so what’s not to love)

  • @michaelak150
    @michaelak150 4 роки тому +1

    So glad Bram Stoker was listed as Irish here. So many other videos on vampires or Dracula wrongly list Stoker as English. Gives me faith in the research behind these videos :D

  • @Beryllahawk
    @Beryllahawk 4 роки тому +26

    Ohhhhhh man favorite vampire!!!! So hard to pick one.
    I'll always have a particular soft spot in my heart for the original Count. That said...
    One of my favorite versions is Fred Saberhagen's Thorn. He's incredibly intelligent, for one thing, which I always love in a character...and it doesn't hurt that the first Thorn novel I read involved his crossing paths with Sherlock Holmes!
    Another would be Nancy Collins' Sonja Blue. She's a real bad-ass and one of the first times I encountered a female vampire who was far more complex than "seduce men and devour them." She's terrifying, terrible, and gloriously dark; things happen around her and to her that would shatter a lesser being. VERY powerful stuff for a teenager wanting to believe that it's possible to fight against the world!
    I think what makes vampires so compelling for me - the ones I like best at least - is the dichotomy between a sort of cold attitude - a nobleman deigning to walk among the peasantry, or maybe just a person who KNOWS he is a monster and that he can't ever make friends of the creatures that are constantly at risk of becoming prey - if not his prey, then another's. And yet, there IS emotion beneath that aloof exterior. Thorn, and Sonja Blue as well, they're both incredibly lonely. There are no others quite like them, and they know how unique they are. They also know they are exceptional - but it's a very lonely thing to be at the top, with no friends. And yet, BECAUSE they do care, they don't dare let anyone close. It's a dynamic that sucks me in almost every time...which is why I've read a LOT of vampire books!

  • @Mikeztarp
    @Mikeztarp 4 роки тому +106

    Twilight? Really? I get that it sold a lot of books and movie tickets, but it was hardly original. Hell, Angel in the TV show Buffy was a reluctant, brooding vampire way before the Twilight books were written. And he didn't sparkle.

    • @late_prince8945
      @late_prince8945 3 роки тому +8

      I think Twilight is just way more known

    • @edwardm1326
      @edwardm1326 3 роки тому +5

      Louis from Interview With A Vampire was reluctant and brooding too.

    • @One_Eyed_Man_
      @One_Eyed_Man_ 3 роки тому +5

      They weren't even originally going to be vampires, but rather faeries. They were changed part way through to cash in on the popularity of vampires at the time.

    • @One_Eyed_Man_
      @One_Eyed_Man_ 3 роки тому

      @Martin Silvan Supposedly, It was the publishers recommendation.

    • @late_prince8945
      @late_prince8945 3 роки тому +1

      @@One_Eyed_Man_ faeries wouldn't be as cool

  • @WarBeasty
    @WarBeasty 4 роки тому +5

    Definitely the Wamphyri from Bryan Lumley's Necroscope series would be my favorite incarnation of the vampire. They are absolutely nightmarish, brutal, powerful, merciless, cruel, sadistic and ravenous.

  • @lorenkolb9994
    @lorenkolb9994 4 роки тому +2

    My favorite Vampire is without a doubt.... DRACULA 🧛‍♂️

  • @jeangreys
    @jeangreys 4 роки тому +65

    please do bloody mary next!! ❤️

    • @kkurajam
      @kkurajam 4 роки тому +1

      i DO BRAZILIAN BLOODY MARY

  • @sburfordmusic996
    @sburfordmusic996 4 роки тому +11

    My favourite of all the monsters! I remember running around the house when I was very young with vampire teeth made out of an egg box cut up pretending to be dracula rising from my coffin, one of my earliest memories and clearly one which has shaped my entire life and love of all things spooky. Thank you for this, I could have watched an hour long special on this alone! My favourite ever vampire is definitely Spike from BTVS but I also really love Christopher Lee's portrayal from Dracula has risen from the grave. Literary wise you can't beat Bram Stokers original IMO.

  • @germanrodriguez4091
    @germanrodriguez4091 Рік тому +1

    There's also the novel "Shiki" by Japanese author Fuyumi Ono, which was adapted to an animated series, and has become one of the scariest Japanese animations ever done. Here, a village named Sotoba faces a vampire invasion and the struggles of several characters.

  • @Zulu-Lemon
    @Zulu-Lemon 4 роки тому +1

    “There’s worse things out tonight than vampires... “

  • @SystemZ3RO
    @SystemZ3RO 4 роки тому +70

    The best Dracula is obviously the version from the Castlevania series. Thg church kills the only woman he loved, wears bloodshed against humanity for the lack there of, and is confronted by his only son who tries to remind his father of the compassion and love his mother had for humanity.

    • @OneStrangeDeer
      @OneStrangeDeer 4 роки тому +5

      Hell yea! Excited for the mew season next month?

    • @MithrilMaia
      @MithrilMaia 4 роки тому +4

      I really hope he comes back for Season 3! Maybe due to Death?

    • @SystemZ3RO
      @SystemZ3RO 4 роки тому +4

      Depends on what they do. In game, Dracula shouldn't be resurrected for another 100 years.
      Though they could follow the Curse of Darkness storyline which focuses on Hector and Trevor's attempt to stop Issac.

    • @MithrilMaia
      @MithrilMaia 4 роки тому +1

      @@SystemZ3RO I'm so freaking glad they changed Isaac in the animated series! xD His game counterpart was....wild. xD

    • @michael--a--sometimes
      @michael--a--sometimes 4 роки тому +6

      What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets :)

  • @Nathan_Coley
    @Nathan_Coley 4 роки тому +519

    Say it with me: Real vampires don't sparkle.

    • @Falafelzebub
      @Falafelzebub 4 роки тому +7

      👍

    • @Nathan_Coley
      @Nathan_Coley 4 роки тому +6

      @RavnDream perhaps? ^,...,^

    • @jimandaubz
      @jimandaubz 4 роки тому +9

      No I..
      They dont.

    • @siobhanconneely4199
      @siobhanconneely4199 4 роки тому +3

      @RavnDream hace you seen vampire diaries? The witches put a spell on the ring so the can walk in day light

    • @n.sharma5960
      @n.sharma5960 4 роки тому +8

      Real? There is nothing like "real vampire " it's a myth.🤷‍♀️

  • @MoonBratStudio
    @MoonBratStudio 2 роки тому +7

    Vampires, Burial, and Death by Paul Barber is the most informative vampire book I've come across (and I've crossed quite a few haha)! It's an academic (and more anthropological?) approach to the belief in vampires (which seems to be hard to find). I'd definitely recommend it to anyone who loves vampires and history!
    p.s. I don't know if I can pick a favorite vampire!!

  • @Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache
    @Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache 2 роки тому +3

    Turning to mist, not having a reflection, having to be staked in the heart, yes, yes, yes. Those are all traits of Dracula. But you didn't mention any of his traits as a person. Like his hobbies. For example, he takes enthusiastic walks through the park.
    1:11
    _Very_ enthusiastic walks.

  • @nonamehours6428
    @nonamehours6428 4 роки тому +49

    0:06 now that's one funny film, I'd advise you all to watch What We Do In The Shadows

  • @dumoulin11
    @dumoulin11 4 роки тому +17

    Love this series of videos! My favourite vampire would have to be Christopher Lee as Dracula in the Hammer films because he's imposing and scary as hell. "Romantic" vampires aren't that scary really, but Lee was frightening because he looked so hungry and evil.

  • @JosephFuller
    @JosephFuller 4 роки тому +1

    The window scratching scene was also one of the first terrifying televised moments in my for me as well.

  • @GianCarloFeoli
    @GianCarloFeoli 2 роки тому +1

    When I was a kid nothing used scared me more than Dracula, on any form, movies, cartoons, etc, and by extension the vampires in general was something that I just couldn't watch, then at 9 the first horror movie I watched was Fright Night and I ran away from the room before the ending, everything on vampires really used to terrify me, and for some reason since adulthood I just cant have enough about the subject on vampires of folklore and movies, but the traditional ones.

  • @TerryFedora
    @TerryFedora 4 роки тому +14

    My favorites depend on the type of vampire themes they are going for, sympathetic, scary, humorous. If I had to be pressed to say one specifically, Louis from Interview with the Vampire

    • @matiasdelgado7011
      @matiasdelgado7011 2 роки тому

      Vampires from old medieval folklore were savage zombies, with few or neither memories of their past human selfs. Like the savage vampires from the Buffy graphic novel and the Supernatural tv series.

  • @alessandro_natali
    @alessandro_natali 4 роки тому +59

    I'm a simple guy, I see a video with the cultured and charming Emily Zarka and I press like.

  • @helentelehowski679
    @helentelehowski679 3 роки тому

    My favorite vampire is Dracula portrayed by the great Bela Lugosi. Grandma took me to the theater to see it in 1955. I fell in love with vampires.

  • @horsetuna
    @horsetuna 2 роки тому +1

    What I found interesting is that the element tellurium was first discovered in Romania. Signs of tellurium poisoning includes: garlicky breath, terrible thirst/dry mouth, lack of sweating, and metallic taste in the mouth.

  • @chrisgarcia509
    @chrisgarcia509 4 роки тому +11

    One of my favorite vampires is Dungeons and Dragons Count Strahd von Zarovich

  • @kyraarts
    @kyraarts 4 роки тому +13

    Me with solar urticaria and food poisoning to garlic: hell yeah it me

  • @kylemccormick4589
    @kylemccormick4589 4 роки тому

    I absolutely love that these videos cite their sources/references in proper format in the description.

  • @gul-e-zahrahaider4502
    @gul-e-zahrahaider4502 4 роки тому +3

    "A girl walk alone home at night" another different cultural adaptation of a vampire.

  • @_quirky_3617
    @_quirky_3617 4 роки тому +103

    Great Video! Could we get a video on Japanese Yokai,especially one on the water creature the "Kappa"?

    • @nicholaslienandjaja1815
      @nicholaslienandjaja1815 4 роки тому +6

      Would like to see episodes on tengu and oni as well.

    • @lenkaido1357
      @lenkaido1357 4 роки тому +1

      @@nicholaslienandjaja1815 and gashadokuro, the huge skeleton

  • @leprifacioncustard4921
    @leprifacioncustard4921 4 роки тому +5

    Ah yes, reliving my childhood fears, what a way to go to sleep

  • @dontaylor7315
    @dontaylor7315 4 роки тому +1

    Thank you for voting for Carmilla! To me it's Carmilla hands-down.

  • @susandolan9543
    @susandolan9543 2 роки тому +2

    Dracula was a Prince. He was also a prisoner in a Turkish prison for many years until his father was killed. The Turkish Sultan thought putting young Vlad on his father's throne would make him the perfect puppet that would make conquering Eastern Europe easier for him. He thought wrong. Vlad Dracula may not have been the first sociopath but you'd be hard pressed to find one more blood thirsty.

  • @SecretSocietyofGoths
    @SecretSocietyofGoths 4 роки тому +3

    i know its cliche but dracula is my all time favorite book. over the past few nights ive been falling asleep to the audio book

  • @williammcelroy5670
    @williammcelroy5670 4 роки тому +4

    I can't believe you failed to mention Abraham Lincoln: Vampire hunter

    • @kluangh1tam
      @kluangh1tam 4 роки тому +1

      It's vampire, not vampire hunter.

  • @quirkydruid
    @quirkydruid 4 роки тому +3

    My favorite version of Dracula is my own created character. I'm a leisure writer and went the same like you about the first fear and then doing loads of research. Mostly just the historical Dracula, so I've decided to write a fiction where Dracula is not the main character but an important one nevertheless. I even have a theory to his birth of date where many historians argue between two months. Cheers for the awesome video and keep it up. 😉

  • @Blak2blue
    @Blak2blue 3 роки тому

    Omg when the Count came out 😂
    “Ah ah ahhh!” ⚡️⚡️⚡️

  • @hallo9062
    @hallo9062 4 роки тому +35

    please do a video on djinn‘s! I‘m from turkey and find them so creepy. We always say that their feet point in the opposite direction cause they‘re a creature from hell! (sorry for my bad english)

    • @Billman66
      @Billman66 3 роки тому +3

      Your English is excellent and yes, the djinn are fascinating and make great subject matter.

    • @TheeBeard1984
      @TheeBeard1984 3 роки тому +2

      @halloo9062 Türk sınuz, amerikalı mı sınuz?

  • @freeandunexplained3011
    @freeandunexplained3011 4 роки тому +5

    One of my favorite vampire flicks is A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night.

  • @bobw1811
    @bobw1811 4 роки тому +1

    While Interview with the Vampire is the first literary example of a sympathetic vampire, I wouldn't be surprised if she drew some inspiration from Hammer's "The Vampire Lovers", in which Carmilla is portrayed as somewhat sympathetic, especially when compared to Hammer's other vampires. She may have also drawn inspiration from Dark Shadows' Barnabas Collins, the first undoubtedly sympathetic and remorseful vampire in media.

  • @Angy708
    @Angy708 3 роки тому

    Carmilla is my favourite vampire, she was known before Dracula. It would be great to see them both together in a film

  • @cheekibreeki3757
    @cheekibreeki3757 4 роки тому +78

    I love your videos guys i watch them all and anjoy them very very much i love the animations keep it up 👍☺!

  • @tanyanikolaevagizdova6571
    @tanyanikolaevagizdova6571 4 роки тому +12

    I come from Bulgarian where there are numerous vampire legends !

    • @12AB17
      @12AB17 3 роки тому +2

      Vampires are from Romania

    • @matiasdelgado7011
      @matiasdelgado7011 2 роки тому

      @@12AB17 technically the word derives from Upir, the russian night stalker.

  • @deaganachomarunacathasaigh4344
    @deaganachomarunacathasaigh4344 3 роки тому +1

    Bram Stoker took alot of his inspiration from the historical Irish Vampire. Abhartach. He was a chieftain who demanded blood from his people and even hunted his people. Every time he was killed he came back. He's technically immortal. He was buried upside down and a massive stone and blackthorns were planted around his grave. I won't say where he's buried as by Irish law it's illegal to remove the stone on his grave so I don't want anyone trying to let him out. We've many other folklore Vaimpír like An dearg Dua and many others. But Abhartach is definitely the most feared

  • @chiranjeevsaikia560
    @chiranjeevsaikia560 4 роки тому +1

    Good to see people throwing some light on the monstrous lores and legends. The thing which I like about this channel is that besides being informative the videos provide the related symbolism as well.
    #AlsoWatchedYourFrankensteinVideo
    #LoveFromIndia

  • @DeoraisWhelmed
    @DeoraisWhelmed 4 роки тому +8

    I've been wanting a way to learn about the original capabilities of mythical creatures for a while, but everything I found was so out of the way. So much information but the stuff I needed, you on the other hand get straight to the point. Detailing the origin, the ideas, the capabilities without complication.
    I love your videos and have found myself as a subscriber and I don't regret a thing! ^_^

  • @cosuinofdeath
    @cosuinofdeath 4 роки тому +49

    Is that blackula my bad lol reminded me of billy and Mandy from when I was a kid

    • @danielpalma912
      @danielpalma912 4 роки тому +9

      the best part is that blackula is a real movie, and the one in B&M is a reference

    • @Alan-wj5zc
      @Alan-wj5zc 4 роки тому +10

      Dracula don't suck, Dracula scrape and lick

    • @kennethsatria6607
      @kennethsatria6607 4 роки тому +3

      Scrape then lick.

    • @josgretf2800
      @josgretf2800 4 роки тому

      @Studio Autio Isn't a new shaft movie coming out?

  • @MiloMondo
    @MiloMondo 3 роки тому

    The window scene in Salem Lot's movie is forever in my mind!

  • @ZoeBlacktail
    @ZoeBlacktail 4 роки тому +1

    My favorite vampires are Bram stokers`s Count Dracula, Anne Rice´s Lestat, Shido from the anime "Nightwalker", Abel Nightroad from the anime "Trinity Blood" , Alucard from The anime "Hellsing Ultimate" and D from the anime "Blood lust". (It is so hard to just choose one of them)

  • @jamesholland7268
    @jamesholland7268 4 роки тому +27

    My favorite is Selene from the Underworld series. She's intelligent, brave, caring and fierce when necessary.

  • @trilobitose
    @trilobitose 4 роки тому +10

    I found this channel yesterday and I'm loving it.
    (Sorry if I've committed grammar mistakes)

  • @DollyTheLlama
    @DollyTheLlama 3 роки тому +1

    Colin Robinson is my all time favorite vampire.
    He's got the most updog.

    • @c_weid1170
      @c_weid1170 3 роки тому

      Ok, I'll give you this one: What's updog? Your answer?
      I agree! Let's hear it for energy (and emotion- Evie) vampires. They truly rule!

  • @nozomiritter5048
    @nozomiritter5048 4 роки тому +7

    I know this sounds kind of weird but I do love Alucard from Hellsing and Hellsing Ultimate. Having to watch Hellsing first they are both really great animes on their own, but watching them one after the other works so much better

  • @justingould2020
    @justingould2020 4 роки тому +8

    Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer was my fave.

    • @Dyrnwynn
      @Dyrnwynn 4 роки тому

      Fantastic character arc.

  • @lostvayne1763
    @lostvayne1763 4 роки тому +3

    Cthulhu would be a really good video

  • @KayKay114
    @KayKay114 4 роки тому

    I absolutely love Let the Right One In. I'm so happy I say Eli in the beginning vampire flashes.

  • @ArkaeaFCL3
    @ArkaeaFCL3 4 роки тому +1

    I've always loved the vampires in underworld. The strain is awesome too.

    • @matiasdelgado7011
      @matiasdelgado7011 2 роки тому

      Yup, the lasts are like zombie/vampire hybrids, similar to the creatures from I am Legend.

  • @mypal1990
    @mypal1990 4 роки тому +8

    I wonder how the novella Camilla made waves in the lore of Dracula.

    • @pbsstoried
      @pbsstoried  4 роки тому +8

      I’m hoping to do a “vampires pre-Dracula” episode or mini-series at some point. There is SO MUCH earlier vamp literature and folklore.

    • @1Kapuchu100
      @1Kapuchu100 4 роки тому +3

      @@pbsstoried Didn't Bram Stoker also make a statement about how Carmilla gave him a lot of inspiration for his own story?

  • @BlinkyTrigger
    @BlinkyTrigger 4 роки тому +29

    im a little confused, is Bela Lugosi's '31 depiction of dracula not landmark enough to even show?
    even the animations in the episode make reference to his version.

    • @philp4684
      @philp4684 4 роки тому +2

      He's shown at 0:03

    • @BlinkyTrigger
      @BlinkyTrigger 4 роки тому +2

      after a rewatch: a one second shot of my man still feels like a cop out

    • @BlinkyTrigger
      @BlinkyTrigger 4 роки тому

      @@philp4684 thanks

    • @dubuyajay9964
      @dubuyajay9964 4 роки тому +3

      Probably trying to avoid legal or financial issues with Universal tbh.

    • @cgaccount3669
      @cgaccount3669 4 роки тому +4

      They likely have to watch out for copywrite issues. Lawyers are worse than vampires. I loved Bela's movie. Funny how some shots have no sound at all.

  • @kaitlyn5324
    @kaitlyn5324 2 роки тому +1

    My favorite version of Dracula is Netflix’s Castlevania. It’s so good.

  • @raycope2086
    @raycope2086 4 роки тому

    Thanks Doctor Emily.
    I enjoyed listening to you take us through the vampire mythology.
    I was a fan of the Dracula franchise since I was a small boy.
    I wish you rainbows of course.