I first learned about this creature in childhood, by watching this movie.
Only much later did I read Stoker's book, and else later I got to the original source.
The world I work on is, by and large, similar to the European Middle Ages and the Ancient World - in the style of my favorite fantasy universe - Howard's Hyborian Age. So there is an analogue of medieval Europe and the Vikings and Sasanian Iran and the Aztec Empire and much more. There are also...