Battle of the Draculas: Who is king of the vampires? – SYFY WIRE

Bram Stokers 1987 novel Dracula is one of the most iconic stories in pop culture history as well as one of the most adapted for film and television. The tale of a Transylvanian count who reveals himself to be a vampire hellbent on taking over London has endured for decades thanks to its magnetic hook and the unignorable allure of that eponymous villain.

One of the reasons Dracula has stuck around for as long as it has while many of its contemporaries were resigned to the bargain bin of literary history is that it lends itself incredibly well to re-imaginings. Count Dracula can be a thematic or metaphorical stand-in for basically any idea or anxiety you want it to. He works on so many levels as a merciless monster, as a conflicted anti-hero, as a romantic hunk, even as a pun-loving joke.

But which version of Dracula out of the dozens available reigns supreme as the all-time greatest? With BBC and Netflixs most recent adaptation of the book now available to watch, were listing some of our favorites and the ones that should have stayed in the coffin. As with all such lists, this is in no way a 100% comprehensive post of every single version of the character, but weve covered a pretty solid cross-section of iterations covering the past century. Heres to more vampires in the future!

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Battle of the Draculas: Who is king of the vampires? - SYFY WIRE