What would Bram Stoker think? + still features

So something that I often find myself wondering is 'What would Bram Stoker think of people using Dracula for their 'traditional vampire' template?  What would he think of all these adaptions?'

I was reading the article on the DA front page wossname today (my, that tone of professionalism disappeared fast)  and I guess I have my answer, in a way... he'd probably hate it, given what the article said about it being possibly a commentary on the decline of Christian morals in Britain back in 1897.  (also that whole thing with him filing to properly register the copyright and Nosferatu etc)

But what I usually wonder about more is not a reaction of 'you're doing it wrong' towards his interpretation... I wonder more about the whole adoption of Dracula as being what a vampire is.  Because y'know, if I'd spent years researching for my novel and not made a great deal of money out of my writing (haha, there is a strong possibility this is what will happen to me) I'd probably be super annoyed at other people taking what I had meant to be my sort of vampires and just using it themselves.  It'd be a sort of 'get your own vampires ' sort of reaction, I think.  On the other hand, if my work did become as influential and stuck as well as Dracula I would just have to take that one on the chin I suppose(this is definitely NOT going to happen to me). 

It's something I often wonder about, because everyone is much more aware of idea stealing type stuff these days, and stealing ideas is bad yet that is almost what using Dracula as a template is doing.  (please read Carmilla and/or The Vampyre for an idea of what vampires were before this in literature - they are also out of copyright, you should be able to find them for free)

Normally I'd write a big long rambling thing but my arm is bugging me - turns out it's a compressed nerve, nothing to worry about. 

It's not like I haven't gone on and on and on about vampires and how they don't burn in the sunlight a million times before. 

So yes.

Dracula and whatnot.

Thanks for reading~

Alicia

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