A friend once told me that the real message Bram Stoker sought to convey in 'Dracula' is that a human being needs to live hundreds and hundreds of years to get all his reading done; that Count Dracula, basically nothing more than a misunderstood bookworm, was draining blood from the necks of 10, 000 hapless virgins not because he was the apotheosis of pure evil but because it was the only way he could live long enough to polish off his extensive reading list. But I have no way of knowing if this is true, as I have not yet found time to read 'Dracula. Joe Queenan
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Bram Stoker wrote the book, "Dracula". It was first published in 1897 and it has been made into a film and a TV series. The story is about a doctor and his fiancée who travel to Transylvania and find themselves caught up in a land of ghosts and monsters. There is an ancient vampire named, "Count Dracula".

The Count has been cursed for stealing the blood of young girls. The doctor and his fiancée realise that their struggle with the Count is part of a grander struggle between good and evil. Dracula wants to live forever by draining the blood of young girls.

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