Google marks "Dracula" author birthday with doodle

PanARMENIAN.Net - A Gothic-themed doodle Thursday, Nov 8, is Google's way of honoring Abraham "Bram" Stoker, the Irish author of "Dracula," on what would have been his 165th birthday.

Visitors to Google's home page are greeted with a doodle of eerie images including the cloaked vampire Count Dracula.

There is none of the "melodrama" associated with recent vampire movies in the doodle's images, which include a bat that Dracula famously transforms into, as well as a moon behind his castle, GMA News says.

As in the past, clicking on the doodle will take the visitor to a Google Search Results page for Bram Stoker.

Stoker was born November 8, 1847 in Dublin, and was a personal assistant of actor Henry Irving. He also managed Irving's Lyceum Theatre in London. However, Stoker is best remembered for his 1897 Gothic novel "Dracula," though he is also credited with many other novels and short stories.

He died in 1912 at age 64.