The primal image of the black-caped vampire Dracula has become an indelible fixture of the modern imagination.
Most of us can recite without prompting the salient characteristics of the vampire: sleeping by day in its coffin, rising at dusk to feed on the blood of the living; the ability to shapeshift into a bat, wolf, or mist; a mortal vulnerability to a wooden stake through the heart or a shaft of su.
It\'s recognition factor rivals, in its own perverse way, the familiarity of Santa Claus.
The primal image of the black-caped vampire Dracula has become an indelible fixture of the modern imagination