The original 541-page manuscript of 鈥淒racula鈥� had been lost until, posit, it was unearthed in a barn in Pennsylvania during the 1980s. Though the manuscript itself was typed, the title was handwritten 鈥淭he Un-Dead.鈥� The title of America鈥檚 most famous vampire novel, it turns out, was changed at the last minute.
What鈥檚 more, had it not been for a similar last-minute change, Dracula might never have entered common parlance. The novel鈥檚 central character, 鈥淐ount Dracula,鈥� was originally 鈥淐ount Wampyr.鈥�
As for that original manuscript once thought lost, Microsoft co-founder, billionaire, and science fiction geek Paul Allen purchased it, and it now resides in his personal library.
