A NIGHT IN TRANSYLVANIA - The Dracula Scrapbook by Brokaw, Kurt (introduction by Radu Florescu and Raymond McNally) - 1976

New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1976. 137 pp. Light edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine and bit of creasing on the upper right of the front cover; no interior markings. Profusely illustratred with black and white stills from assorted vampire movies, along with drawings and movie posters. The Contents are: Introduction: The Dracula Phenomenon by Radu Florescu and Raymond McNally; Foreword: On the Five Hundredth Anniversary; The Transylvania Dracula: The Reigns of Vlad Tepes; The Transylvania Tour: On the Trail of Dracula; Vampire Lore in Transylvania; The Transylvania Traveler; The Vampire on Film; and The Transylvania Bookshelf. Bram Stoker, born in Dublin in 1847, was part of the artistic community in London, the community that included Oscar Wilde, James McNeill Whistler, Arthur Conan Doyle and many others. Although he had never visited Eastern Europe, he had an Hungarian acquaintance named Armin Vambery who liked to spin dark and inspirational tales about the Carpathian Mountains. And, of course, he had read Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu and The Vampyr by John Polidori, the writer who is often credited with the creation of the vampire genre. Stoker's novel, Dracula, was a hit at the time. But he would have been surprised, and quite pleased, to learn that his creation had lived on so long and had inspired so many future authors.. First Paperback Printing. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Book.