Beyond the Forest
The etymological origins of the word "nosferatu" are difficult to determine. There is no doubt that it achieved currency through Bram Stoker's 1897 novel "Dracula" and its unauthorised cinematic adaptation, "Nosferatu" (1922). Stoker identified his source for the term as 19th-century British author and speaker Emily Gerard. It is commonly thought that Gerard introduced the word into print in an 1885 magazine article, "Transylvanian Superstitions", and in her travelogue "The Land Beyond the Forest" ("Transylvania" is Latin for "beyond the forest", literally "across/through the forest"). She merely refers to it as the Romanian word for vampire: