Dracula's Guest: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Vampire Stories - Michael Sims - Google Books

http://books.google.de/books?id=mMmWD-G2MpkC&pg=PT22&dq=Draculin+Desmoteplase+-Wikipedia&hl=de&sa=X&ei=YcqaU8XCDY-B7QaFpoH4AQ&ve

Even in the twenty-first century, the undead walk among us...Before Twilight and True Blood, vampires haunted the nineteenth century, when brilliant writers indulged their bloodthirsty imaginations, culminating in Bram Stoker's legendary 1897 novel,…