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'Dracula' packs bigger bite with trivia-packed annotated edition

By Carol Memmott, USA TODAY

Bram Stoker's Dracula was published in 1897, and the blood-drinking vampire has been entrenched in popular culture ever since. Dracula has inspired countless vampire novels, movies, TV shows, comic books — even cereal (Count Chocula!). In time for Halloween comes The New Annotated Dracula (Norton, $39.95) edited by Leslie S. Klinger, with an introduction by Neil Gaiman. Sharpen your teeth on Dracula trivia in the book:...

•An estimated 160 movies have been made about Dracula and hundreds of others about vampires including Bram Stoker's Dracula, Van Helsing, I Am Legend, Billy the Kid vs. Dracula, Dracula: Dead and Loving It, Love at First Bite and Blacula.

•Dozens of actors have portrayed Dracula in films: Bela Lugosi, Gary Oldman, Frank Langella, Christopher Lee, Louis Jordan, George Hamilton, Leslie Nielsen and John Carradine.

•Actors who have portrayed Dracula on Broadway: Lugosi, Langella, Raul Julia, David Dukes and Jeremy Brett.

•Novels inspired by Dracula: Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles, Dracula: The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova and the Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer.

•TV shows: Dark Shadows, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Moonlight, Blade and True Blood.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2008-10-22-dracula_N.htm