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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.
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Count Dracula was played in films by the Hungarian-born actor Bela Lugosi, whose elegant, exotic accent has become associated with the character.
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