 All in all, the Icelandic text showed to be less sentimental and more to the point than "Dracula", with a heightened erotic stance.De Roos announced these findings in February 2014 in "Letter of Castle Dracula," before starting to work on a complete translation from Icelandic to English.Although six months older than "Makt myrkranna", the Swedish "Dracula" adaptation remained unknown to international scholars until after "Powers of Darkness" by De Roos was published on 7 February 2017, with a preface by Dacre Stoker.