But the studio has also shown that Dracula can be interpreted in many different ways, including the bloodsucking monster that the original Bram Stoker novel introduced.

Source: https://www.cbr.com/van-helsing-best-version-dracula/

It was when Liz Kettle went to Slains Castle near Cruden Bay – a place that had supposedly inspired Bram Stoker, the original writer of the Dracula story – that she felt she had come home, as the character.

Source: https://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/news/inverness-audience-can-see-how-actress-works-to-nail-her-dra-328023/

Local actors, John Carty, Fiona Maria Fitzpatrick, Edwin Mullane and Orla McSharry played the parts of WB Yeats, his wife George and the ghosts of two other Irish writers, Bram Stoker and Oscar Wilde.

Source: https://www.independent.ie/regionals/sligo/news/yeats-stoker-and-wilde-all-in-the-one-play-performed-at-a-sligo-school/a1420708219.html