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How Dracula became a red-hot lover

  • Written by Stanley Stepanic, Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Virginia
How Dracula became a red-hot loverIn Luc Besson's 'Dracula,' the titular character is a hopeless romantic.Vertical

The Lord of Vampires. The King of the Undead. The Ultimate Lover. All refer to the immortal Count Dracula, who originally appeared in Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel.

Yet the character’s fame has sprung more from his 200-plus cinematic resurrections, beginning with...

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