I enjoyed listening to Bram Stoker's Dracula very much. I note briefly here that the work is suffused with Christian anxieties. The role of blood is explicit and highly developed: Dracula sucks blood; his victim Mina Harker sucks his blood and thereby undergoes a "vampire baptism;" blood transfusions unite souls. The opposition between Dracula and the sancta of Catholicism are also clear: Dracula cannot bear the presence of the Host; a crucifix keeps him at bay. But the opposition suggests a higher unity: Dracula is part of the spiritual economy of Catholicism.
I do not know if Stoker was a Catholic (he was from Dublin, Ireland, according to Britannica Online). His Anglican characters (not including Prof. Abraham Van Helsing, who is a Catholic) must overcome their sense that the crucifix is mildly idolatrous.
I do know that the specific anxieties about blood in Dracula are not shared in Jewish thought and imagination. What would the elements of a Jewish gothic tale be? A story such as that of the Golem suggests that the power of speech, and its misuse, might be useful elements.
-- H. A. Massig המשיג