Some Vampiric History (My research) Part.2
1944-- John Carradine plays Dracula for the first time in House of Dracula.
1945-- Last serious Universal "all-star" monster movie, House of Frankenstein, features Carradine as Dracula.
1948-- Bela Lugosi returns to the Dracula role for Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein, the last Universal "all-star" monster movie, played for laughs.
1950s-- Influential EC horror comics publish stories dealing with various supernatural creatures, including vampires.
1952-- EC's Vault of Horror #14 features an origin story for the comic's host, the Old Witch. She is the daughter of a male werewolf and a female vampire-- perhaps the first portrayal anywhere of a vampire giving birth.
1953-- Drakula Istanbula, a Turkish film, is released.
--Eerie No. 8 includes the first comic book adaptation of Dracula.
1954-- The Comics Code banishes vampires from comic books.
--Richard Matheson's short story, "I am Legend" presents vampirism as a disease.
1956-- John Carradine plays Dracula in the first TV adaptation of the story for Matinee Theatre.
--Kyuketsuki Ga, a Japanese vampire film, is released.
1957-- The first Italian vampire movie, I Vampiri, is released.
--Infamous American producer Roger Corman makes the first science fiction vampire movie, Not of This Earth.
--El Vampiro begins a wave of Mexican vampire films.
1958-- Horror of Dracula with Christoper Lee is released, beginning wave of Hammer Studios horror films.
1959 --I Was A Teenage Vampire receives limited release.
1961-- Korean film adaptation of Dracula is produced.
1962-- The Count Dracula Society is founded in the USA by Donald Reed.
1963-- "Transylvania 6-5000," one of the last of the Bugs Bunny shorts released theatrically, pits Bugs against a shape-shifting vampire. The vampire doesn't stand a chance.
1964-- Parque de Juelos (Park of Games), Spanish vampire movie, is produced.
--The Munsters and The Addams Family open in the fall TV season.
--Matheson's "I am Legend" is adapted to the screen as The Last Man on Earth, with Vincent Price.
1965-- Jeanne Youngson founds The Count Dracula Fan Club.
--The Munsters comic, based on the television show of the same name, is the first comic book series featuring a vampire character.
1966-- Low-budget horror soap Dark Shadows debuts.
--Low, low budget vampire western, Dracula vs Billy the Kid, appears.
1967-- In episode 210 of Dark Shadows, vampire Barnabas Collins (Jonathan Frid) makes his first appearance.
1969-- Warren releases the first issue of adult comic Vampirella, the longest running vampire comic book to date.
--A BBC-TV production plays Dracula for laughs.
1970-- Christopher Lee stars in El Conde Dracula, the Spanish film adaptation of Dracula.
--Two films, inspired by Carmilla, are released: Countess Dracula, and Hammer's The Vampire Lovers (starring Ingrid Pitt).
--Sabrina the Teenage Witch cartoon spins off The Groovy Goolies, which includes vampire characters.
1971-- Marvel Comics releases the first issue of The Tomb of Dracula.
--Morbius, the Living Vampire introduced in Spider-Man.
--The Return of Count Yorga and the highly sexual Twins of Evil are among the most popular of many vampire movies released in the early 70s.
--Matheson's "I am Legend" adapted again, as The Omega Man, with Charlton Heston.
--General Mills introduces Count Chocula.
1972-- The Night Stalker with Darrin McGavin as a vampire hunter becomes the most watched television movie at that time. (a series will follow).
--Vampire Kung-Fu is released in Hong Kong as the first vampire martial arts films.
--Blacula, the story of "Dracula's Blood-Brother," weds vampire and "blaxploitation" film genres.
--In Search of Dracula by Raymond T. McNally and Radu Florescu introduces Vlad Tepes to the world of contemporary vampire fans. The connection between the fictional and historical figures, vaguely hinted at in Dracula, becomes firm.
--True Vampires of History by Donald Glut assembles the stories of historical vampire figures.
1973-- Dan Curtis Productions' TV version of Dracula stars Jack Palance.
--Christopher Lee plays Dracula in film for the last time.
--Andy Warhol's Dracula is released.
--Scream Blacula, Scream is released.
--Nancy Garden's Vampires launches a wave of juvenile vampire literature.
1974-- Dracula appears as a character in the children's show, The Hilarious House of Frightenstein.
--Ringo Starr, Harry Nilsson, and other musicians appear in Son of Dracula. Ringo, for some reason, plays Merlin the Magician.
1975--The Dracula Tape, by Fred Saberhagen views Dracula as a hero rather than a villian.
--In his third appearance (in the notoriously titled Giant-Size Man-Thing), comic-book antihero Howard the Duck battles a vampirized "Hell-cow."
1976--Anne Rice publishes Interview with the Vampire, the most influential vampire novel since Dracula.
--Stephen King is nominated for the World Fantasy Award for his vampire novel, 'Salem's Lot.
--Fans hold first Shadowcon, a national Dark Shadows convention.
1977-- A new version of Dracula opens on Broadway starring Frank Langella.
--BBC produces Count Dracula.
--Martin Riccardo founds the Vampire Studies Society.
1978-- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's book Hotel Transylvania begins her series of vampire novels.
--Eric Held and Dorothy Nixon found the Vampire Information Exchange.
--The film Bram Stoker's Original Dracula is released.
1979-- Based on the success of the new Broadway production, Universal Pictures remakes Dracula starring Frank Langella.
Other vampire films that year include Nosferatu the Vampyre, Salem's Lot, and the comical Love at First Bite.
--Bauhaus records "Bela Lugosi's Dead" the first hit of the new Gothic movement.
--Deborah and James Howe publish Bunnicula, the Vampire Bunny. After Deborah's death, James will continue the successful children's book series alone.
By this point, more than 100 Dracula films are known to exist. Vampire books and films are too numerous to mention.
1980-- The Bram Stoker Society is founded in Dublin, Ireland.
1983-- In the December issue of Dr. Strange, the sorceror superhero kills all of the vampires in the world, thus banishing them from Marvel Comics for the next six years.
--The Hunger, starring Catherine Deneueve, Susan Sarandon, and David Bowie, is released.
1985--The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice is published and reaches the best seller list. Several other vampire novels will follow.
--Fright Night , Transylvania 6-5000, and the anime flick Vampire Hunter D are among a number of vampire films released.
1986-- Vamp, featuring Grace Jones, is released. Films like it, last year's Fright Night and-- 1987-- --The Lost Boys combine horror and humour.
1988-- Dracula's Widow, directed by Francis Ford Coppola's nephew, bombs.
1989-- Overthrow of Romanian dictator Nikolai Ceaucescu opens Transylvania to Dracula enthusiasts.
--Latest adaptation of Carmilla is released.
--Nancy Collins wins a Bram Stoker Award for her vampire novel Sunglasses After Dark.
--Nick Night, a TV movie, tells the story of a 13th century vampire trying to redeem himself as a contemporary police officer.
1990-- "Sexy" Dark Shadows television remake bombs.
1991-- Vampire: The Masquerade," the most successful of the vampire role-playing games, is released by White Wolf.
1992-- Francis Ford Coppola makes Bram Stoker's Dracula, starring Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder.
--Film version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer appears.
--Forever Knight, based on the Nick Knight telefilm, debuts.
--Innocent Blood, odd vampire/gangster horror/comedy film, is released.
--"Vampire"-style mass murderer Andrei Chikatilo of Rostov, Russia, is sentenced to death.
1995-- Film version of Interview with the Vampire is released. Oprah Winfrey forms "prayer circle" outside premiere to work against the forces of darkness she believes the film is calling down. Others also are appalled by the casting of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt.
--Pam Keesey edits Dark Angels, an anthology of lesbian vampire fiction.
1996-- Noted self-obssessed director Quentin Tarantino makes From Dusk Till Dawn.
1997-- TV version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, starring Sarah Michelle Geller, debuts. Teen lockers get new poster girl.
Late 1990s-- Vampire novels, films, videos, shows, games, fanzines, comics, web sites, toys, reach numbers too great to track.
"Goth" subcultures borrow heavily from vampire lore.