Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897), Mate Dolenc’s The Gorjanci Vampire (Vampir z Gorjancev: Fantastična povest, 1979), and Vlado Žabot’s The Nights of the Wolves (Volčje noči, 1996) are novels that share a central vampire motif or a more indirect, thematically-broader folk/mythical connection to it. I look for the phenomenon of the appearance of a vampire in literature within a historical context that I limit to folklore legends, real people, and diseases. The analysis of the genre image and the structure, narrative and style in the novels under consideration is followed by an analysis and comparison of the vampire. I consider the image of a vampire from the point of view of various roles of literary figures (»vampire«, »victim«, »oracle«), but I am also interested in the dynamics of relations between them.
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