英语翻译：In Dracula,Bram Stoker used the traditional vampire legends of southeast Europe as the se

英语翻译：In Dracula,Bram Stoker used the traditional vampire legends of southeast Europe as the se
In Dracula,Bram Stoker used the traditional vampire legends of southeast Europe as the setting for his story. Stories about vampires have existed in this part of the world for thousands of years, but vampire stories became very popular in the eighteenth century.
Stoker was born and brought up in Ireland, and worked first as a civil servant in Dublin, where he married Florence Balcombe, a Dublin girl who had once nearly married Oscar Wilde. Stoker, like Wilde, was fascinated by the theatre, and in 1878 he moved to London, where he became the business manager of the famous actor, Sir Henry Irving.
Stoker himself said that the idea of the story of Dracula came to him in a bad dream (interestingly, Stevenson’s Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde was also the result of a nightmare). After a large meal of crab meat, Stoker dreamed that he was being attacked by an enormous crab,and this, combined with the stories he had already heard about vampires, became the basis for the story of Dracula.