Edgar Allan Poe’s works. Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” was written quite late, in 1897, compared to the earlier gothic novels. Therefore, Bram Stoker didn’t bring any new features or invent new elements to the gothic genre. He only made use of the century worth of gothic fiction before him and replicated
not, as exemplified in Dracula, a novel by Bram Stoker, and Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 film adaptation. Gothic horror is a well-known genre, believed to have been invented by Horace Walpole in 1764 when he wrote The Castle of Otranto. This novel, and all gothic novels written afterwards, have multiple characteristics in common that make them part of the gothic horror genre. These characteristics include a setting in a castle or other ruined, abandoned area, an atmosphere of mystery and suspense
Transylvania Emerging out of the dark recesses of the godforsaken castle of the cruel Count Dracula in the precipices of the Carpathian Mountains of Transylvania to the crowded and bustling streets of London, England. Abraham, Bram, Stoker transforms a myth as old as time into an immortal classic of literature: Dracula, has been the precedent for today’s horror genre. Stoker’s vivid descriptions of scenery, atmosphere and unique use of multiple perspectives escalates the story’s building anticipation for
The films Nosferat and Sunrise: A song of two humans, are both directed by F. W. Murnau, and made in the 1920’s. While Sunrise tells the story of two young lovers that reconcile, Nosferatu is a horror adaptation of Bram Stoker’s, Dracula. Both films consist of two young couples that face the possibility of death and other threatening dangers. The way that space is used in each of the two films, moves the raises tension in different ways. In Noseferatu, enclosed spacing portrays the feeling of no