Dracula and Frankenstein

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True or false?

- Bram Stoker began writing Dracula in Whitby.
- Immediately after its publication, Dracula was a phenomenal success.
- Stoker travelled to Transylvania to do research on vampires.
- Count Dracula cannot go out in the sunlight.
- Bran Castle (in Romania) was the inspiration for Castle Dracula.
- Mary Shelley started writing Frankenstein when she was 18 and finished when she was 19.
- The first edition of Frankenstein was published anonymously in London in 1831.
- Frankenstein is infused with some elements of the Gothic novel and the Romantic movement.
- The story has had an influence across literature and popular culture and spawned a complete genre of horror stories and films.
- Frankenstein begins with the letters of Captain Robert Walton to his mother.

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I'm gonna give it a try:

- Bram Stoker began writing Dracula in Whitby.

True

- Immediately after its publication, Dracula was a phenomenal success.

False

- Stoker travelled to Transylvania to do research on vampires.

False

- Count Dracula cannot go out in the sunlight.

False

- Bran Castle (in Romania) was the inspiration for Castle Dracula.

¿?. Some say there is no evidence of this and some say the Castle is indeed the castle of the novel

- Mary Shelley started writing Frankenstein when she was 18 and finished when she was 19.

True

- The first edition of Frankenstein was published anonymously in London in 1831

False

- Frankenstein is infused with some elements of the Gothic novel and the Romantic movement.

True

- The story has had an influence across literature and popular culture and spawned a complete genre of horror stories and films.

True


- Frankenstein begins with the letters of Captain Robert Walton to his mother.

False. He writes to his sister



My true or false facts:

Dracula was based on Vlad Tepes, prince of Transilvania.
Sir Francis Einstein, a British ancestor of the famous scientist, was the model for the character of Frankenstein.
Bram Stoker was a member of the secret Golden Dawn society.
Mary Shelley conceived the idea of Frankenstein in Geneve, during the summer of 1816.
At least five movies based in the story of Frankenstein have been made in the United States.
Francis Ford Coppola made an adaption of Dracula. The movie won the Oscar for Best Film in 1992.
One of the first novels about mummies was written by Bram Stoker too.
Bullets of gold are, according to the myth, the only ammo capable of killing a werewolf.
The Invisible Man was a novel written by the same author than War of the Worlds.
‘True Blood’ is an American telivision drama series with the co-existence of humans and vampires as the main argument.