All these most likely contributed to ‘Dracula,’ as were the sensibilities of the Victorian period in which he lived. Stoker was also privy to the so-called vampire scare of 1896, where a Tuberculosis outbreak was mischaracterized as symptoms of vampirism. The seeds for ‘ Dracula‘ were most probably planted through the numerous horror stories involving the “undead” that Stoker’s mother told him during his long incapacitated and sickly childhood by her side.
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