Dracula fans, rejoice! Funko Pop! Icons: Bram Stoker with vinyl book depicts Dracula author Bram Stoker holding a copy of his gothic horror novel about the most infamous vampire of all time. The best known work of Abraham "Bram" Stoker is Dracula, with its publication in 1897. This novel is considered one of the most horrible on the subject of vampires. Bram Stoker's Dracula was based on Vlad the Empaler and he wrote a dark novel that went through generations of readers. The success of the book was immense, resulting in adaptations to other media such as film, television series and comics. The circle of his friends included Oscar Wilde, William Butler Yeats and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and his literary idol was Walt Whitman, whom he got to know. In addition to Dracula, Stoker wrote eighteen books and numerous short stories before his death in 1912. To date, more than 1,000 novels and 200 films have been designed with Count Dracula as inspiration.