His sobriquet ???Dracula??? is immortalised by Bram Stoker in his quintessential horror fiction, which in turn has flourished cinematically from F.W. Murnau???s German silent classic Nosferatu, to versions that seduced directors such as Terence Fisher, Werner Herzog and Francis Ford Coppola, the latter rendition being the most lavish, flamboyant, luxurious of them all.