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    Stoker Dracula, Treated Vampirism As A Disease Being Spread Through Immoral Lust. This References Fears of Both Tuberculosis and Syphilis

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    Bram Stoker's Dracula influenced modern vampire stories by portraying vampirism as a disease spread through immoral lust, referencing fears of diseases like tuberculosis and syphilis. Most vampire stories feature a young girl charmed by a handsome, mysterious vampire and include tropes like vampires being harmed by sunlight, repelled by garlic, transforming into bats, and sleeping in coffins - all elements originating from Stoker's novel, not actual medieval vampire myths. While Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla is considered the first modern vampire story, Bram Stoker's Dracula had a much larger influence on defining the genre in fiction after its publication.

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    Bram Stoker's Dracula influenced modern vampire stories by portraying vampirism as a disease spread through immoral lust, referencing fears of diseases like tuberculosis and syphilis. Most vampire stories feature a young girl charmed by a handsome, mysterious vampire and include tropes like vampires being harmed by sunlight, repelled by garlic, transforming into bats, and sleeping in coffins - all elements originating from Stoker's novel, not actual medieval vampire myths. While Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla is considered the first modern vampire story, Bram Stoker's Dracula had a much larger influence on defining the genre in fiction after its publication.

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    Bram Stoker's Dracula influenced modern vampire stories by portraying vampirism as a disease spread through immoral lust, referencing fears of diseases like tuberculosis and syphilis. Most vampire stories feature a young girl charmed by a handsome, mysterious vampire and include tropes like vampires being harmed by sunlight, repelled by garlic, transforming into bats, and sleeping in coffins - all elements originating from Stoker's novel, not actual medieval vampire myths. While Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla is considered the first modern vampire story, Bram Stoker's Dracula had a much larger influence on defining the genre in fiction after its publication.

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    Stoker Dracula, Treated Vampirism As A Disease Being Spread Through Immoral Lust. This References Fears of Both Tuberculosis and Syphilis

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    EDISON ORTEGA

    Bram Stoker Similitures Joseph Sheridan


    Stoker Dracula, treated The stories almost always Most scholars consider
    vampirism as a disease being involve a young girl falling Joseph Sheridan Le
    spread through immoral lust. under the charms of the Fanuss Carmilia the
    This references fears of both vampire. first modern vampire
    tuberculosis and syphilis. The vampire is almost story.
    always handsome and
    mysterious.
    The vampires in stories can
    be burned by the sun
    The vampires warder off
    garlic.
    and can willingly turn into
    bats.
    They usually sleep in coffins
    too.
    All of these are rooted only
    in Dracula, not in actual
    vampire myths of the
    Middle Ages.

    The vampire stories were influenced for Bram Stokers Dracula. Many people consider Joseph
    Sheridan Le Fanuss Carmilia the first modern vampire story. However, the one that was far more
    influential on the genre is Bram Stokers Dracula.

    Almost every vampire story written after Stokers work bares striking similarities to it. The
    stories almost always involve a young girl falling under the charms of the vampire and the
    vampire is almost always handsome and mysterious. Certain truths about vampires have their
    origin in Stokers stories. For example, almost all vampires in stories can be burned by the sun,
    warder off garlic, can willingly turn into bats and they usually sleep in coffins.

    It is clear to all of us today that vampires do not exist but vampire stories continue to multiply.
    EDISON ORTEGA

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