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Dracula, the Wolf Man, and the Art of Memory

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Dracula’s cane in The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023, left) is modeled after Larry Talbot’s (Lon Chaney Jr., 1906-1973) wolf’s head cane in The Wolf Man (1941, right) because the latter film starred Bela Lugosi (1882-1956), Hollywood’s prototypical vampire, becoming an art of memory trick and a pop culture valence, producing an occult mnemonic. Plus, the Count can turn into a wolf.

Dracula’s cane in The Last Voyage of the Demeter (left) is a replica of Larry Talbot’s cane in The Wolf Man (right).