European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 9, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Klaus Kinski la the Vampire in this 1979 film Quot Nosferatu the Vampire Quot Nosferatu Quot which stokers widow tried unsuccessfully to Stop. A a remake of of the 1922 silent movie continued from Page 15 Arminius of  Between shows the novelist buried himself in the British museum studying maps travel guides and peasant superstitions of Transylvania so that he could say like or. Abraham Van Helsing the novel s Vampire immunologist who prescribes garlic and consecrated hosts As a repellent Quot i have studied Over and Over again All the papers relating to this  Mcnally regards Van Helsing As a Stoker substitute Quot same first name. He even looks like him a big Man redheaded Bram did seven years of solid research. Everything is Correct even the train times from Yorkshire Munich Budapest. He arranged All the Tours for Irving s company and loved  Stoker slaved 27 years for the domineering demanding sir Henry at the lyceum. Mcnally sees Quot something of their relationship in the character of Renfield Dracula s spider Swa lowing slave. Like most writers Bram threw nothing away. Harker his hero was the name of. Irving a set  the novelists imagination no doubt also was fuelled by Jack the Ripper s murderous rambles through East London about that time. Dracula was an immediate Best seller in England and America but Stoker As Mcnally notes sadly Quot never made any big Money. He died in 1912 in virtual poverty. It was the movies that made Dracula immortal Quot Mcnally and his co author came across 75 pages of Stoker s notes for the novel in Philadelphia s Rosenbach Library. Quot Bram s widow had sold them to rotheby s for 2 pounds Quot he says. Carney and Mcnally agree that Dracula always rises in hard economic times. Quot vampires play into our sense of being drained by unseen forces Quot Carney says. Quot then there is the Solace of seeing someone on screen worse off than  Mcnally notes that Quot the classic american horror movies Dracula and. Frankenstein came along during our great depression just As the German expressionist films like Nosferatu were made in the 20s, when you needed a Bushel Basket of Marks to buy a loaf  psychological studies and Box office surveys show that Dracula appeals More to women than men. Quot it is women who love horror gloat Over it feed on it and come Back for More Quot Bela Lugosi once said explaining Why 90 percent of his Ian mail came from women Quot they Bear the race in bloody  and Are born with a predestination to horror in their bloodstream. It is a biological  Lugosi by the Way had five wives. A Quot women find Dracula Stangeby attractive a potent sensuous seducer who knows what he wants and offers a Safe sex you can t get impregnated Quot observed Mcnally whose class rosters invariably show females in the majority. Filmmakers in every decade find new layers of sensuality and subliminal sex lurking in the Stoker novel which at first was perceived As victorian England s fear of unleashed feminine  the genre really gets interesting in the late 70s arid �?T80s,&Quot says Carney Quot when it gets twisted and reapplied. Bats and bites and virgins Are Only the costume. The Core of the Vampire film is sexual dynamics that frightening territory where someone possesses you and you become obsessed. There is a sense of betrayal of being out of control of men and women using each other. Quot the earlier horror films were like a roller coaster ride a Good scream fest with your Girlfriend leaning on your. Shoulder but when it was Over there was no connection with the real world where sex can be  Carney rates Quot the �?T60s As the Low Point of Vampire films. This was the glory Days of sexual. Liberation of peace and free love and Flower children. Now in the a age of aids we realize that sex is a perilous  number of critics regard the Microscope slides of blood cultures Coppola flashes on the screen among Many dazzling special effects As an explicit evocation of the tragedy of aids. Stoker would have been horrified at this a rated reincarnation of his count As a carnal Chap swapping neck nectar with a topless Trio of insatiable Vampire lovelies. Shortly before he died he wrote an article deploring recent novels Quot that Are meant by their authors and publishers to bring to the winning of commercial Success the forces of evil inherent in Man. The evil is grave and dangerous and May deeply affect the principles and lives of Young  of course he did t realize that filmmakers would doom his classic undead to eternal remakes on solid Box office evidence that you can t keep a bad Man Down. Frank Langella shown in the 1977 Broadway play is about to tour with a revival of the hit real dirt continued from Page 15 a r a a. Modest Castle and historic landmark still standing after 500 years. The origin of the dirt is documented by a certificate signed by sight Sara s mayor and the official Seal of the romanian customs service. The pendants Are crafted by the findings co. Of Rhode Island and assembled arid packaged in Salt  City by d and j International trading the company Klamt and Filipov founded. They be imported enough dirt for 300,000 to 400,000 pendants but have made Only 70 so far. Silver editions sell for $39.95 Gold models $139.95. Of theby Janet Mcconnaughey the associated press t he literary rebirth of the undead in the United states can be traced primarily to Anne Rice and the sexy bloodsuckers of interview with the Vampire first published in 1976.interview and its sequels a the Vampire Lestat Queen of the damned and most recently the tale of the body thief a Are among the books that have established Rice As the current Queen of the night. Rice has published More than a dozen books since interview. Some Are under her own name others under the names Anne rampling and  Roqu Elaure. The name Anne Rice is enough to make a Best seller out of any Book dealing with the supernatural. The tale of the body thief was a Blok of the month club main selection and has 775,000 copies in print said a publicist at Alfred a. Knopf. Interview did Well in hard cover and even better in paperback. And the Vampire Lestat went on the new York times Best seller list just two weeks after publication. A. A. And the number of Vampire novels published each year has proliferated to the Point that at least one fast Reader gave up trying to read them All. Interview grew from a Short Story that had sat in a trunk for years and from personal tragedy. Rice a 5-year-old daughter Michelle died of leukaemia in 1972. A a at her husbands urging Rice began to write. She pulled out her old Story about an 18th-Century Vampire in new Orleans and added a Little girl who was saved from death by becoming a Vampire. At the base of her Story. Rice said was an attempt to envision an immortal mind. Other books had immortals searching for lost loves she said but she did t see that As a preoccupation lasting through eternity. The meaning of existence however could. Quot if a person was immortal then sooner or later that person would have to meet those questions Quot she said in 1985. _. In addition she said two years ago Quot i like to talk about history i like to write from a larger perspective see our lives As if from the outside. All that works wonderfully when i m writing about an immortal a an imagined character that is  and they be taken on another sort of life the sort that made people wait for the ship carrying the next instalment of Charles Dickens 7he old curiosity shop to find out if Little Nell had died. Quot i be had a couple of people Call. And ask if my vampires were real. When i be said no they be cried Quot Rice said. Anne Rice stands inside her new Orleans Home which she used As a setting for a novel. Page 16 a the stars and stripes saturday january 9, 1993