Rather than going through the far end of a stake, I sink my teeth into specifics.
1. Dracula's Guest (1914)
Dracula's Daughter (1936)
Although based on 'unpublished episode', plot of sequel to Dracula (1931) bears no resemblance to source material.
In fact, it's more like Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla, due to the lesbian implications of its title character Countess Zaleska.
Daughter of Dracula (1972) and comic Grimm Universe Presents Quarterly: Dracula's Daughter (2022) are completely unrelated.
The former contains lots of sex (typical of a Jesús Franco film) and the latter sees Charlotte Le Fanu search for her notorious father, who's lost in the Underworld.
Surname surely pays tribute to Carmilla's author.
Dracula: The Lady in the Tomb (1991)
Standalone story concerns Peter Hawkins (unnamed in original work) stumbling across Countess Dolingen (a derivative of Countess Mircalla).
Bram Stoker's Dracula's Guest (2008)
Some direct-to-video efforts can be decent.
This is not one of them.
The Complete Dracula (2009)
Issue 1 covers chapters one to five of original novel and very briefly features Dracula's Guest for its introduction.
2. Dracula (1931)
Tod Browning's timeless classic is based more on the play by Hamilton Deane (revised by John L. Balderston in 1927), rather than original novel.
Dracula (1962)
First issue (dated October-December) adapts the film.
Issues 2-4 (November 1966, February and March 1967) tells a bonkers origins story, which Dell reprinted in issues 6-8 (July, October 1972, and July 1973).
Bizarrely, there's no number 5
Anyway, here's the gist.
In a little known, middle European country far removed from the fears and worries of twentieth century world on the brink of nuclear war, a lone scientist scoffed at by his contemporaries works in his laboratory to find world peace.
He develops a serum derived from bats as a means of healing brain damage.
After releasing bats, one knocks over a vial, causing some of the serum to drip into a glass of water.
Blissfully unaware, he downs liquid in celebration.
This allows him to transform into a bat at will, but instead of using ability to suck blood, he fights injustice, corruption, evil and greed.
So they made Dracula into a fucking superhero?
HA HA HA.
Oh, costume is basically Batman (less cape).
Renfield (2023)
Director Chris McKay describes gory horror comedy as a quasi-sequel.
Barbara Hambly reimagined original story in 2006 as Renfield: Slave of Dracula.
3. Dracula's Death (shot in 1921, but for unknown reasons, not released until 1923)
Hungarian silent film marked the first physical appearance of Dracula (as Drakula), but doesn't follow Stoker's book.
Original plot concerns a woman named Mary, who experiences frightening visions when admitted to an asylum, where a patient claims to be Count Drakula.
Is he real, or a nightmare?
Like so many of the era, it is considered lost, but a prose adaptation published in 1924 survived, which Laszlo Tamasfi translated in 2020.
In the same year, it was adapted into a twenty page comic titled Asyl.
4. 1897 novel
4.1 Unauthorised
Nosferatu (1922)
An absolute classic, spawning its own legacy.
Read all about it.
4.1.2 Kazikli Voyvoda (1928)
Ali Riza Seyfioglu bootlegged novel and plainly identified Dracula as Vlad the Impaler, against the backdrop of Istanbul.
As a side note, IDW Publishing brought unrelated origins story Dracula: Vlad the Impaler in 1993.
Dracula in Istanbul (1953)
Film's screenplay is based on the above, but more or less translates Stoker's novel, giving Dracula fangs for the very first time.
Like Nosferatu, names were changed.
Azmi (Jonathan Harker)
Gϋzin (Mina)
Doctor Reshui (Van Helsing)
Doctor Akif (Doctor Seward)
Sadan (Lucy)
There is no Renfield.
4.2 Adaptations
4.2.1 Powers of Darkness (1901)
Valdimar Ásmundsson claims book is an Icelandic translation of Dracula, based on the anonymous Swedish version by the unidentified Aーe.
Speaking of which.
Mörkrets makter (1899)
Jonathan becomes Thomas and Dracula is Draculitz.
We also get new character Morton (Mina's Uncle), and a trio of aristocrats.
Serial downplays vampirism, placing Draculitz as the head of an international cult inspired by Social Darwinism.
4.2.2
Count Dracula (1970)
Arguably the most faithful adaptation, but Christopher Lee is uncharacteristically dull.
Dracula (1974)
TV film placed Jack Palance in the title role.
Dracula (1989-1990)
Four-issue series was published in glorious black and white by Eternity Comics.
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
Apart from Gary Oldman's laughable look, this is infamous for Keanu Reeves' appalling British accent.
It received a four-issue comic series and numerous video games followed.
Dracula (2006) is another TV movie.
Manga classics (2018)
The Japanese adapted several other literary masterpieces, including Sense and Sensibility, Frankenstein, Pride and Prejudice, The Jungle Book, Les Misérables and a bevvy of Shakespeare.
Dracula (2020)
Three-part TV miniseries was originally broadcast on BBC One.
Bram Stoker's Dracula Starring Bela Lugosi (2020)
Legendary Comics gave Lugosi fangs.
#DRCL midnight children (2022-2023)
Re-telling takes modern attitudes and pits Mina Harker and co against a certain foe from a far away land in the East.
4.3 Dracula Lives! (1973-1975)
Marvel series is far from straightforward to explain.
Jumping to #5 (March 1974), the first full-length recreation begins in illustrated form.
Chapter I is just called Dracula.
Then:
Chapter II - Into the Spider's Web (#6)
Chapter III - The Female of the Species (#7)
Chapter IV - And In That Sleep...! (#8)
End states next up is Dracula in London.
Trouble is, #9 'forgot'.
Chapter V - Ship of Death (#10)
WHAT?
So they not only skipped an issue, but changed chapter's title - without explanation?
I'm impressed.
Chapter VI - If Madness Be thy Master..! (#11)
Next issue was supposed to be Death Be Thou Proud, but #12 and #13 disagreed.
After series was cancelled, story and Chapter VII continued in The Legion of Monsters #1 (September 1975).
End teased Chapter VIII - Hour of the Wolf.
When TLOM was abruptly axed, adaptation seemed doomed never to be completed.
But nearly 30 years later, came Stoker's Dracula.
#1 (October 2004) reprints Dracula Lives! (5-8), #2 (February 2005) reprints Dracula Lives! (10-11 and TLOM #1), and finally concludes with Hour of the Wolf.
From now on, new material spans multiple segments.
#3 (March 2005)
IX - Tell Truth, and Shame the Devil
X - For in That Sleep of Death...
XI - If Blood Be the Price...
XII - For the Blood is the Life
#4 (May 2005)
XIII - The Demon in His Lair
XIV - Pursuit
XV - Jaws of the Dragon
XVI - Sunset
Epilogue
Holy SHIT!
Convoluted nightmare was simplified in Dracula (2010), between July-September.
5. Video game sequels
Dracula Unleashed (1993)
The first interactive gothic horror movie is set ten years after novel.
Alexander Morris travels from America to England to uncover the truth surrounding his brother's mysterious death.
Dracula: Resurrection (1999)
Set in 1904 (or seven years after the Dracula's death), Mina finds herself drawn back to Transylvania and Jonathan rolls up rescuing sleeves.
Four more in series followed.
6. Comic sequels
The Coffin of Dracula (April 1966 and June 1966)
Two-part sequel originally appeared in Creepy #8 and #9 and was reprinted in Special #48 (October 1972).
Dracula: The Suicide Club (1992)
Shortly after Dracula's resurrection, a spate of bizarre deaths plague London.
Scotland Yard Detective Champion Harrison suspects foul play, and occult specialist Sir John Chandos and clairvoyant Dion Fortune from the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn offer to assist investigation.
#1 The Tale of the Man With the Cream Tarts
#2 Bayes Theorem & the Case of the Clairvoyant
#3 Drinking from Cerridwen's Cauldron
#4 The Libation Bearer
Harker (2009)
Six months after Dracula's death, main characters try to piece their lives back together.
However, unseen bride Countess Von Gratz, otherwise known as Countess Dracula, seeks to avenge her husband's death.
She also has her own nefarious agenda for the Harker's unborn child.
7. Novel prequels
The Diaries of the Family Dracul
Covenant of the Vampire (1994)
Children of the Vampire (1995)
Lord of the Vampires (1996)
Jeanne Kalogridis's trilogy is initially set fifty years before the opening of Stoker's Dracula and focuses on Dracula's great-nephew Arkady caring for his uncle at the Castle of Prince Vlad Tsepesh.
The second picks up 25 years later and the final part tells an original story while melding the Tsepesh family with original novel.
Dracul (2018)
Primarily set in 1868, a fictional version of Bram Stoker (aged 21) documents his days as a sickly, bedridden child.
Following a spate of deaths in nearby towns, the Stoker family grow suspicious nanny Ellen Crone.
When Bram is miraculously cured of his ailments, Ellen suddenly disappears without trace.
Years later, her connection to Dracula is eventually revealed.
8. Novel sequels
Dracula the Undead (1997)
Freda Warrington's unofficial sequel was published to mark original novel's centenary.
Seven years after the events of Dracula, surviving characters revisit Transylvania to make sure the Count is really dead. In the process, they inadvertently awake Dracula's dormant spirit.
Dracula takes this opportunity to exact revenge on the Harker family, whilst simultaneously trying to reclaim his body.
Meanwhile back in Transylvania, Van Helsing's friend and colleague Professor André Kovacs learns of Dracula's intentions and searches for the legendary Scholomance; a school ran by Satan himself, which supposedly taught Dracula everything he knows.
Book makes drinking blood a sexually explicit act, and also reveals Dracula turned his daughter and sister into vampires.
Controversial stuff.
Dracula the Un-Dead (2009)
Beginning in 1912 (twenty-five years after Dracula's death), official sequel is written by Stoker's great grand nephew Dacre Stoker and Dracula historian Ian Holt.
Main protagonist Quincey Harker is revealed to be Dracula's son.
Original novel began with an entry in Jonathan Harker's diary on 3 May (year unspecified) and before Harker's note (recalling seven years ago), ends with Mina's diary on 6 November.
We 'assume' story takes place between May-November 1890, but now they're saying original concluded in 1887, not 1897.
Interestingly, at the end of five-issue series Renfield (1994-1995), collected in 2011 as Renfield: A Tale of Madness, bug-eating bastard's gravestone reads 2 October, 1887.
Dracula 1912 (2016)
A weakened Dracula makes his way to America onboard the R.M.S. Titanic.
Unfortunately for him, Van Helsing, Arthur Holmwood and Dr. John Seward learn of his plans and team up to destroy him once and for all.
Dracula's Child (2020)
Evil never truly dies...
Jonathan and Mina Harker, and close friends - Dr. Seward, Lord Godalming (Arthur Holmwood) and Van Helsing get together to celebrate Quincey's 12th birthday.
Before falling unconscious, Van Helsing cries out a strange prophecy, endangering everybody's lives.
For unrelated shiggles, Son of Dracula (1943) was Universal's second sequel to Dracula (1931), ntbcw 1974 musical of same name.
Dracula Reborn (2022)
A madman enters the fray, intent on resurrecting the King Vampire, no matter the cost.
Jonathan and Mina Harker, Arthur Holmwood, John Seward and Van Helsing prepare to face Dracula once again.
But this time, vengeance takes precedent over blood.
Two unrelated films of same name were released in 2012 and 2015.
Dracula's Legacy (2022)
With Dracula dead, Sophia Van Helsing is looking to fight another evil.
Searching through her uncle's library, she stumbles across an ancient legend - the story of how the first vampire was created.
Fact or fiction?
To discover the truth, she must dive deep into the underground world of Florence.
An unrelated 2015 video game of same name exists.
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