Spike vs. Dracula village and led the angry mob to the mansion. He concludes the letter with, "P.S.: You still owe me eleven pounds." In October 1934, Darla reads a letter from Spike. Darla has chosen to remain in Germany while Spike and Drusilla visit America. In the letter, Spike says that they travelled to Los Angeles, where they ran into Dracula, now world-famous as a result of the movie based on him. In L.A., Spike takes Drusilla to a theatre showing a stage version of "Dracula" starring Béla Lugosi himself. Drusilla points out that they've met the real Dracula, but Spike argues
Dracula in popular culture with Zandor Vorkov as the Count terrorizing a California boardwalk community with Frankenstein's monster in tow. Screen legends J. Carrol Naish and Lon Chaney, Jr. appeared and Famous Monsters of Filmland editor Forrest J. Ackerman cameoed as an unlucky victim. 1972 saw the release of "Blacula", a low-budget blaxploitation horror film about an African prince vampirized by Count Dracula himself (who is portrayed by Charles Macaulay) in a brief opening prologue. The 1973 sequel, "Scream Blacula Scream" briefly replays this scene as a flashback. In 1974, Paul Naschy starred in "Count Dracula's Great Love", directed by Javier Aguirre for the