Bram Stoker's renowned novel, Dracula, was published in 1897 and is written in

journal and letter form. Dracula is considered by many to be the most important

novel in the history of horror, literature and a landmark in victorian literature but in

its own day it was not. Over time however stokers iconic contract became the

foundation on which all vampire media was eventually built. Jonathan Harker is an

English solicitor or lawyer traveling to the castle of Count Dracula in Transylvania,

because the count is buying Carfax Abbey in England Parker records details of the

trip in his journal for his fiancee mean emre is journey to Dracula's castle is

frightening with madly galloping horses pulling the careening coach over steep

mountain roads and evading. Snarling wolves when Jonathan arrives Count

Dracula is a pale aged man dressed in black is enormous Castle is richly furnished

dark and empty. He and Harker talk for a while. But at dawn Dracula quickly

leaves Parker is shaving when Dracula suddenly appears behind him startled

Parker Cuts himself and realizes the count has no reflection in the mirror. Harker

grabs a crucifix and Dracula backs down but breaks the mirror Parker realizes he is

a prisoner in this Castle Parker finds Dracula sleeping in one of the many wooden

boxes in the vaults below the castle and realizes the count is a supernatural

monster. The boxes are later filled with Earth nailed shut and loaded onto wagons

by gypsies. The count is leaving for England and Harker cannot stop him Mina

Murray and her dear friend Lucy westenra to exchanged letters Lucy is engaged to
Arthur Holmwood. Dr. Seward one of Lucy's rejected suitors runs, the lunatic

asylum beside Carfax Abbey and has a dangerous patient named a Renfield. Mina

has not heard from Jonathan in a month. Lucy has resumed her childhood habit of

walking in her sleep and dr. Seward notes that Renfield is capturing spiders flies

and sparrows and eating them raw during the storm the ship Dracula's on named

the dementor runs aground in the harbor only the captain is on board and he is dead

tied to the wheel and holding a This affects the cargo consists of 50 wooden boxes

filled with Hearth Mina discovers Lucy sleep walking up on a hill a tall dark figure

with white face and red eyes bends over her Lucy has puncture wounds on her

throat and grows very weak. Dr. Seward says she suffers from a lack of blood

Mina finally gets word that Jonathan is seriously ill. In a hospital and Budapest

Hungary she goes to him and they are married in the hospital Seward's colleague.

Dr. Abraham Van Helsing arrives. He's shocked by Lucy's hideous deathly

appearance and wounded throat Van Helsing gives her repeated blood transfusions

from her fiance and suitors and places garlic Flowers in her room, Mina and

Jonathan Harker return from Budapest Renfield escapes the Asylum.Van Helsing

believes Lucy is dying and sends for Arthur Holmwood her fiance the Monstrous

Lucy behaves seductively towards him but then collapses and briefly looks like

herself again Arthur kisses her just before she dies. Jonathan Harker believes. He

has seen a younger Count Dracula in London Van Helsing places garlic flowers
and a crucifix in Lucy's coffin and tells Seward that they will have to remove her

heart. Had they soon learned that the crucifix has been stolen from the coffin Days

Later a newspaper reports that several small children have gone missing some

return with injured throats and stories of a beautiful lady who took them a horrified

Nina reads. Jonathan's journal and Helsing contacts Mina to learn more about

Lucy's illness and Mina shows him the journal. Parker agrees to help defeat Count

Dracula Van Helsing says Lucy is now a vampire. He takes Homewood and

another former Suitor Quincey Morris to destroy her. They see her in Vampire

form dragging a half dead child, but she escapes them later when she is again in

her coffin or Arthur her fiance Stakes her through the heart she shrieks and

thrashes but soon looks like her normal. Also again Van Helsing cuts off Head and

she is finally at peace. Dr. Seward realizes that renfield's violent episodes are

somehow linked to the count Walker learns that the 50 large boxes of Earth on

board. The wrecked dementor were delivered to Carfax Abbey Dracula's new

property Van Helsing reminds the others that they are men of science while

Dracula is a cursed monster. They take garlic steaks crucifixes communion Wafers

and holy water to Carfax Abbey, but it is overrun with rats. And Dracula is not

there are core notices that Mina is pale and weak. She has dreamed of a frightening

missed that seem to have two red eyes. Renfield has been badly beaten at the

Asylum. He says Dracula came to his window and Renfield invited him in but
when Dracula returned Renfield refused him and was smashed to the ground

fearing for mina Van Helsing and Seward go to the Harker's is apartment. They

find Jonathan unconscious and Mina being forced to drink Dracula's blood the men

raised crucifixes and Dracula vanishes as a Mist, but me Is entirely under his

control now just as Lucy was Van Helsing tries to protect me know by touching a

communion wafer to her forehead, but it burns her the men go to Carfax Abbey to

throw. Holy water on the boxes of Transylvanian Earth. So the vampire cannot

hide in them, but only 49 of the 50 boxes are there. Hoping to use the connection

between Mina and the vampire and Helsing hypnotizes her at dawn. She states that

Dracula is asleep on an anchored ship Dracula means to escape on the czarina

Catherine, which is already sailed the men take the train across Europe to intercept

the ship mean it goes with them so that they can use her to help track the count but

he breaks the link the vampire Hunters decide to go to Dracula's castle. Wait for

him there approaching the castle mean it becomes increasingly depraved just as

Lucy did Van Helsing draws a ring around her in the dirt and places communion

wafers in it. The brides of Dracula approach but the ring and Wafers stop them

Van Helsing goes alone to the castle where he destroys the bride's the count closed

up in a box is being brought to the castle in a wagon by gypsies in the wild chase

the Box falls out and the lid comes off revealing Count Dracula in the struggle
Quincey Morris is killed but so is Count Dracula his body turns to dust and blows

away freeing all of them .Thus the story comes to an end.

The Twilight Saga is a series of four vampire-themed fantasy romance novels by

American author Stephenie Meyer.Bella swan, a seventeen year-old-misfit, leaves

phoenix arizona to move to forks, a small town located in Washington State's

Olympic peninsula. She will live with her father, charlie, the town's police

chief.Her mother is married to an other guy who is a minor league basketball

player whose career often keeps the couple on the road. Bella becomes re-

acquainted with Jacob black a native American team who lives with his father

Billy near Forks. Bella makes friends at her new high school but finds the

mysterious and aloof cullen siblings particularly intriguing.Bella is seated next to

Edward cullen in biology class on her first day but he seems repulsed by her.Afer a

week's absence from school, Edward returns and socializes normally with Bella. A

few days later,Bella is nearly struck by a skidding van in the school parking lot.At

this time Edward instantaneously covers a distance of over 30 feet,putting himself

between Bella and the van,stopping it with only his hand.He subsequently refuses

to explain his actions to Bella and warns her against befriending him. Jacob tells

Bella about a long-standing animosity between the cullens and the quilentes,an

says the cullens are not allowed on the reservation.After much research, Bella
concludes that Edward has mysterious powers resembling a vampire. He

eventually confirms this,but says he and other cullens only consume animal

blood.The pair fall in love and Edward introduces Bella to his vampire

family.Carlisle cullen the family patriarch,is a doctor at Forks hospital.The other

characters include Esme, Carlisle's wife and the family

matriarch .Alice,Jasper,Emmett and Rosalie are their informally-adopted

children.The family's reaction to Bella is mixed,concerned the family's secret to be

exposed.Edward and bellas relationship is jeopardized when three nomadic

vampires-James,Victoria and Laurent, arrives in the Forks area.They are the ones

who are responsible for a series of deaths being investigated as animal

attacks.James, a tracker vampire with incredible hunting instincts is incited by

Bella's scent and becomes obsessed with hunting her for sport.Edward and the

other cullens protect bella but James tracks her.James lures bella into a trap at her

old ballet studio.He attacks bella and infects her with vampire venom.Edward

arrives and after a ferocious battle he subdues James just as other cullens

arrived.Alice, Emmett and Jasper kill James decapitating and burning him,as

Edward removes the venom from bellas wrist preventing her becoming a

vampire.They were unaware of the rage that James's mate Victoria has for bella.

She tries to hurt bella and there by indirectly hurting the whole cullen family.After

the long time request of bella who change her into a vampire,edward agreed to her
under a condition-to marry him as soon as possible. They get married and after a

fourteen days bella finds she Is pregnant and her maternity span was to short

compared to a normal one. As the womb grew each day bella grew weak and

terrible. Bella Was about to die when she gave birth to the child.At this moment

Edward injects his own vampire venom into bella and brings her back to life.The

excitement and exuberance increased in bella.They named her Renesseme.There

were consequences and threat for the existence of Renesseme saying she was

immortal.The whole vampire family around the world fought against the

opposition and proved that Renesseme is no harm to the world.By this the story

ends.

In the twenty-first century the vampire setting changed. Instead of living in a dark

Gothic castle or in New Orleans, they nested in the American small town and

began to attend High School.From the blood sucking Dracula of the 18 th century

had an image of a horrific undead myth to a tempting and attractive highschool

going vampires, is a drastic jump in the characterisation. The count Dracula can

only be dead if a wooden piece stabbed into his heart.The appearance of Count

Dracula was picturised as a tall old man with his darker shades doubtedly. But on

the other hand in the novel twilight the vampires can only be dead by setting fire.

Here the vampires are completely socialised within the society. Edward and other

cullens are given certain powers. For example Alice is given the power to see the
future, Edward has the power to read the minds. The same dreadful creature is

presented audience into extreme varieties.