Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Summary of Horror


In this unit I learned many things about monsters like Dracula and the horror films, for example these:
People like to be scared. They love reading horror stories and watching horror movies. Some of the most famous horror stories were written by British writers. The first was published by Mary Shelley in 1818 the book was called Frankenstein.
Then was created Count Dracula, he was a vampire and he was invented by the Irish writer Branm Stoker in 1897.

Bram Stoker got the idea for Dracula while he was sitting in Highgate Cemetery in North London. Dracula is so popular that visitors to London can go on a guided Dracula tour and he always begins when it's dark.
Little history of Dracula

The bedroom window was wide open and moonlight was shining into the room. MIna was on the balcony and a dark shape was leaning over her. It was Count Dracula. The vampire was not drinking Mina's blood. No, it was more terrible than that. Dracula was holding Mina's face to a long cut on his chest. He was making her drink his blood. The vampire turned his head. His eyes burned with a terrible red light. Blood was dripping from his red lips and long white teeth...


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