A wooden stake through the heart was the favoured method.
Dracula, the novel was written by Bram Stoker.
The novel "Dracula" by Irish writer Bram Stoker (1847 - 1912), was first published in 1897.
No. Dracula can be killed before she becomes one. That means that she is released. Wilhelmina Harker (nee Murray) was forced to drink of Count Dracula's blood - this gave her the contagion fevour but as she didn't die while in the fevour she didn't become a vampire.
Bram Stoker's Dracula, I believe, was the first vampire novel published, in 1897. Vampire stories go back long before Stoker's book.
The Vampire Hunter played by Hugh Jackman who appeared in the 2004 Film of Stoker's novel was named "Van Helsing"
Dracula
Count Dracula was created by Bram Stoker in 1897 in his novel "Dracula." Dracula, a vampire from Transylvania, has since become a popular figure in vampire lore and has appeared in numerous adaptations in various forms of media.
The novel was innovative in that it was the first to include a romantic vector to the vampire (dark and lustful for sure but still it was there). Also the novel granted the vampire the powers of a high level sorcerer where before the vampire was a much more pathetic creature.
Bram Stoker was an Irish novelist who wrote the Gothic novel 'Dracula' in 1897. 'Dracula' is famous for introducing the Count and his battle with vampire hunter Abraham van Helsing.
No vampire book has been as famous as Dracula, which was written by Bram Stoker.The most famous vampire book in recent years was Twilight, written by Stephenie Meyer.Bram Stoker wrote the horror novel, Dracula, in 1897.
In 1897, Archibald Constable & Co. published the hardback version of the novel "Dracula" by the Irish author, Bram Stoker.
Johnathan Harker is a London lawyer hired by Count Dracula in Transylvania to buy some property for him. He finds out that Count Dracula is a vampire. Harker has to kill the vampire and some of those Dracula has turned into vampires.