I'll have my blood low fat and no carb please. Gothic imagery and themes include castles, coffins, monsters, and strange lands and form the backdrop to the classic Gothic novel. The Gothic element is synonymous with horror and the uncanny: a feeling rather than a form, in which transgression is the central theme (Wisker 7). The vampire is a figure who transgresses the limits of society to form the central dynamic of the Gothic. “We like to see the limit crossed: it horrifies us and reinforces our sense of border and normality” (Halberstam 13). Assuming that Bram Stoker's Dracula constitutes the vampire archetype, it is clear that modern vampires have demonstrated a diminishment of Gothic horror despite the similarities in Gothic imagery. The Count is the point of reference for the vampire archetype as the monstrous Other who “announces itself as the place of corruption” (Anolik and Howard 1). Dracula is associated with breaking and transgressing accepted limits: a monstrosity of great evil that serves to ensure the existence of good (Punter and Byron 231). The “otherness” Dracula possesses reinforces our norms and beliefs through his transgression that separates him from society, and the polarity to Western norms and ideals makes him an effective tool to extort revulsion and horror. Stoker's novel uses the Gothic tradition, providing "major embodiments and evocations of the cultural anxieties" from which Gothic atmosphere and horror is produced, establishing the baseline used to distinguish modern vampires, as part of the mythology of vampires within the gothic (Botting AftergothicDifferences Between Dracula and Twilight The similarities between the two novels are above all the gothic imagery and theme, but the gothic atmosphere predominates in Dracula over Twilight and it is this difference that makes Twilight not belong to the vampire canon. Horror is the element that Dracula possesses that Edward does not, and is crucial in the interplay between transgression and limitation. So what makes Dracula monstrous and Edward not? human form, establishing its frightening charm. Its fangs, hands and sharp nails are terrifying up close. At first glance it is not a corpse, mysteriously resisting the decay of death. Dr. Seward comments: “she was, if possible, more radiantly beautiful than ever; and I couldn't believe she was dead” about Lucy's vampire status (Stoker 200). At several points in the novel Dracula is as if he were alive, “simply gorged with blood; he lay like a leech, exhausted from his glut” (Stoker 52). The monstrous life in death is an “essential gift of Stoker's vampires to the twentieth century; a memory not of the horror of death, but of the innate horror of vitality” (Auerbach 95). Edward looks the opposite of Dracula. The venom of the bite that transforms the human into a vampire freezes their appearance forever. Edward was bitten at 17 and was never labeled as horrible.