Dracula Costume
Count Dracula’s stories have intimidated people across the globe. However, he still continues to be the best loved vampire character, and is imitated by hundreds of people every Halloween and other scary events. Stores often run out of the Dracula costume during Halloween due to the immense demand for the same. To ensure that one does not return disappointed at such times, it is best to be prepared before hand by using one’s own creativity and putting together the Dracula outfit.
The Dracula costume can be made by using some commonly used materials such as black trousers, black long coat, white shirt, cummerbund, fangs, waist coat and red bow tie, besides face paint and hair dye. A Dracula cape can be prepared by cutting up an old black coat or black gown. In case one is using a coat to prepare the cape, the sleeves should be removed and the holes sewn up.
The next most important thing in a Dracula costume is fangs. One can either buy the porcelain or plastic ones available in the market or create a pair out of cardboard if none is available readily. These fangs can be painted with red paint to give them the impression of blood dripping from them. As far as the suit is concerned, it should have a tuxedo like appearance, which includes black trousers, coat and white shirt topped off with a red bow tie.
As a next step in preparing this costume, the wearer can paint his hair brown with the help of some color, if it is not already so. This should be followed by painting his face either gray or white, grey eye shadow can be applied under the eyes to give a spooky look, while lips can be painted bright red. The Dracula costume is best prepared when created with the help of one’s ingenuity.
DRACULA
Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, featuring as its primary antagonist the vampire Count Dracula. Dracula has been attributed to many literary genres including vampire literature, horror fiction, the gothic novel and invasion literature. Structurally it is an epistolary novel, that is, told as a series of diary entries and letters. Literary critics have examined many themes in the novel, such as the role of women in Victorian culture, conventional and conservative sexuality, immigration, colonialism, postcolonialism and folklore. Although Stoker did not invent the vampire, the novel’s influence on the popularity of vampires has been singularly responsible for many theatrical and film interpretations throughout the 20th and 21st centuries……….
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DRACULA’S GUEST
It is generally presumed that “Dracula’s Guest” is in fact the removed 1st chapter belonging to the authentic Dracula manuscript, that the author thought ended up being superfluous to the tale.
“Dracula’s Guest” comes after an Englishman (whose identify is in no way stated but is presumed to be Jonathan Harker) on a visit to Munich prior to leaving for Transylvania. It’s Walpurgis Night, and even though the hotelier’s forewarning never to be delayed again, the young man afterwards departs his carriage and also wanders in the direction of the direction of an abandoned ‘unholy’ village. Since the carriage leaves with the scared and superstitious driver, a tall and slim stranger scares the horses at the crest of a hill.
After geting to a desolate valley after several hours, it starts to snow and as a dark storm gathers strength, Harker takes refuge in a grove of cypress and yew trees. Harker’s place is quickly lighted by moonlight to be a cemetery, and he discovers himself prior to a marble tomb with a huge iron stake driven through the roof, the wording reads: “Countess Dolingen of Gratz /in Styria/ searched for and found death / 1801.” Written on the back of the tomb graven in great Russian letters is: “The dead travel fast.”
Harker is annoyed to be in such a place on such a evening and as the storm breaks anew, he’s forced by hail to shelter in the doorway of the tomb. As Harker avoids the pelting hail, the bronze door of the tomb opens under his weight and a flash of forked lightning shows the interior – and a “beautiful woman with rounded cheeks and red lips, seemingly sleeping on a bier”. The force of the following thunder peal throws Harker from the doorway (experienced as “being grasped as by the hand of a giant”) as another lightning bolt strikes the iron spike, destroying the tomb and the now yelling woman inside.
The Englishman’s problems aren’t really over, as he painfully regains his senses from the experience, he’s offended by a sensation of loathing which he connects to a comfortable emotion in his chest and a licking at this throat. Harker summons braveness to glance through his eyelashes and finds a enormous wolf with flaming eyes is actually visiting him.
Military horsemen are the next to wake the semi-conscious man, chasing the wolf away with torches and guns. Some horsemen come back to the main party and Harker after the chase, confirming that they hadn’t found ‘him’ and that Harker’s creature is: “A wolf – and yet not a wolf”. They also note that blood is on the destroyed tomb yet Harker’s neck is un-bloodied, “See comrades, the wolf has been lying on him and keeping his blood warm”, strangely later, Harker finds his neck pained when a horseman comments on it.
When Harker is taken back to his hotel by the men, he’s informed that it is none other than his expectant host Dracula that has alerted his employees, the horsemen, of “dangers from snow and wolves and night” in a telegram received by the hotel in the time Harker was away……
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