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TIL a vampire story older than Dracula , Leptirica (1973) adapts Milovan Glišić’s 1880 novella Posle devedeset godina (After Ninety Years), a tale about the vampire Sava Savanović published 17 years before Bram Stoker penned Dracula.

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