You gotta figure for as long as Dracula has been around, he must have met his match once in a while. Fearless priest with a stake and a cross? Angry villagers armed with pitchforks? Wily, wizened doctor with every known antidote to Dracula? Perhaps, but sometimes a smaller, unexpected challenger shows up…
My creative sister muse Morra Morron created Dracula for this illustration based on the description from Stoker’s Dracula–domed forehead, bushy eyebrows, long white mustache. Also, a fan of TV’s Svengoolie, she took a little nuance from good ol’ bad hokey horror movies.
Let’s see what happens when…Dracula vs a Twelve-Year Old Girl!
I hope you enjoyed this tip o’ the hat to October, with Dracula as our featured guest. Next month, that’s November, I hope you’ll join us for Nut November–meet our cast of nut characters and read a little chat about NanoWriMo. Thanks, and Happy Halloween!
(A little extra.) For those of you curious about the Dracula passage that describes the Count’s appearance:
“His face was a strong–very strong–aquiline, with high bridge of the thin nose and peculiarly arched nostrils; with lofty domed forehead, and hair growing scantily round the temples but profusely elsewhere. His eyebrows were very massive, almost meeting over the nose, and with a bushy hair that seemed to curl in its own profusion. The mouth, so far as I could see it under the heavy moustache, was fixed and rather cruel-looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth; these protruded over the lips, whose remarkable ruddiness showed astonishing vitality in a man of his years. For the rest, his ears were pale, and at the tops extremely pointed; the chin was broad and strong, and the cheeks firm though thin. The general effect was one of extraordinary pallor.” -Bram Stoker, Dracula, Signet Classic edition (1965, but a more recent paperback), page 18.
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