His eyebrows were very massive, almost meeting over the nose, and with bushy hair that seemed to curl in its own profusions. For the rest, his ears were pale, and at the tops extremely pointed, his chin was broad and strong, and the cheeks firm though thin. He is white from his exile from the sun. Stoker's Count Dracula is an aristocrat, from a proud bloodline. Perhaps so, but Dracula's hands give him away.
Hands always tell breeding.
The count's palms are hairy. We moviegoers have never seen a walrus-mustached Dracula or one with hairy palms, but the pointed ears, the bushy eyebrows, the pallor and the pointed nails are all part of the image of the count indelibly created by his first screen incarnation as Nosferatu in F.W. Murnau's 1922 German film. Unlike Stoker's Byronic Dracula, Count Orlok the Nosferatu looked like something that had escaped from the grave. Nosferatu exists because the legal order couldn't be carried out in post-World War I Germany. Let's give this argument the benefit of the doubt.