atundratoadstool:❦ Stoker’s Patchwork Transylvania : Landscapes ❦ In writing Dracula, Bram Sto

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❦ Stoker’s Patchwork Transylvania : Landscapes ❦ In writing Dracula, Bram Stoker’s descriptions of Transylvania seldom corresponded to the actual locations he was describing, but rather they created a fictional landscape made out of a motley of different travelogues describing areas near and around the Carpathians.

I.Courtyard, Brașov (Andrew Crosse, Round About the Carpathians) | II.Mountains, Reghin (E. C. Johnson, On the Track of the Crescent) |III.Scaunul Domnului (Isten-Szek) (E. C. Johnson, On the Track of the Crescent) | IV.Mountains, Beclean (E. C. Johnson, On the Track of the Crescent) | V. Troiţă near Breb (E. C. Johnson, On the Track of the Crescent) |VI.Hayricks (which don’t actually go in trees), Bran(Andrew Cross, Round About the Carpathians) | VII. Forest, Tarcului Mountains(Andrew Crosse, Round About the Carpathians)| VIII. Tarcului Mountains (Andrew Cross, Round About the Carpathians) | IX. Carpathians between Gheorgheni and Borsec(Andrew Crosse, Round About the Carpathians)|X.Carpathian Sheepdog (Andrew Crosse, Round About the Carpathians)