This past weekend's broadcast of NPR's show Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me! had a literary question that was too good not to pass along: Bram Stoker based his most famous character on which of the following: a) his mother-in-law b) Walt Whitman c) Prince Albert. The answer, you've no doubt guessed already, is Walt Whitman, whom Stoker felt was a sexually liberated freewheeling Male. In support of the thesis, I point you towards this interview with Erik Nuzum, author of The Dead Travel Fast: Stalking Vampires from Nosferatu to Count Chocula.--David E
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