The volume Impactul uni mit: Dracula și reprezentarea ficționala a spațiului romanesc(“The Impact of a Myth: Dracula and the Fictional representation of the Romanian space”) is an interdisciplinary study that combines an imagological perspective with an approach based on Dracula Studies. This book continues the research presented in my previous volume, published in English: The Birth of the Dracula Myth: Bram Stoker’s Transylvania (București: Pro Universitaria, 2013). The Birth of the Dracula Myth analysed the image of Transylvania in Bram Stoker’s Dracula, drawing a parallel between the novel and the sources consulted by Stoker on Transylvania, and focusing on what Stoker read and what he wrote about this region of contemporary Romania.

Impactul uni mit: Dracula și reprezentarea ficționala a spațiului Romanesc („The Impact of a Myth: Dracula and the Fictional representation of the Romanian space”) discusses the complexity of the Dracula myth and its impact on the reflection of Romania in British and American literary representations. This volume also analyses some literary responses of several Romanian writers to the vampiric myth invented by Bram Stoker. The first chapters discuss the image of Romania as a land of vampires in some literary texts, including novels which depict Transylvania as a fantastic space, such as Raymond Rudorff, The Dracula Archives (1971), Fred Saberhagen, The Dracula Tape (1975), Donald F. Glut, Frankenstein meets Dracula (1977), and C. Dean Andersson, I am Dracula (1993).