Stoker's vampire Public domain
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Orlok · Unisex premium cotton T-shirt, 142 gsm
The Ghost Castle (after Oscar Wilde) (Das Gespensterschloß (nach Oskar Wilde)) · Moriz Jung · 1911 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art Museum record →
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It is printed in the European Union, not on the other side of the world: it arrives with no customs, no import charges and no month at sea on the way. Delivery times measured against the printer on 19 August 2026.
Other designs on this premium t-shirt
24 designs on the same premium t-shirt and at the same price.
Alas, poor Yorick
Ammonites
Ars Goetia
Ciento treinta
Dos ciudades
El arco de Odiseo
El arsenal de Bansenshukai
El cachalote
El cajón de Baker Street
El casco corintio
El conde de Montecristo
El desfile de los trastos
El gato Behemoth
El grito
El Minotauro
El moderno Prometeo
El Nautilus
El páramo
El Pequod
El piolet de Whymper
El pozo y el péndulo
El tablero de la reina roja
El telar de Penélope
Ícaro
Printed on premium cotton T-shirt. The last thumbnail is the original print the design comes from.
Where it comes from: source, motifs and legal status
- Source
- Stoker's vampire - Bram Stoker (1897) / F. W. Murnau (1922)
- Motifs
- the castle in the Carpathians · the bat · the stake and the garlic · the Demeter · Carmilla (Le Fanu, 1872) · gothic type
- Legal status
- Public domain. The design is ours; the material it starts from belongs to everyone
What this premium T-shirt is like
It is a Bella + Canvas 3001 in combed, ring-spun cotton, 142 gsm. That is fine fabric: the T-shirt you wear on its own in summer and under something the rest of the year, the one that does not bulk up under a shirt. The cut is unisex and straight, with a side seam and shoulder-to-shoulder taping, which is what keeps the neck from going wavy after ten washes.
Read more about this premium t-shirt
The drawing goes on one side only, on the chest, printed straight onto the fabric with water-based inks. It is not a vinyl stuck on top: you cannot feel it when you run your hand over it, it does not crackle when you fold it and it has no edge for it to start peeling from. In exchange the ink lives inside the cotton and ages with it, so after many washes it loses a shade of black, like any well-made printed T-shirt.
Inside out, at 30 °C, no bleach, and never iron over the print. Of the whole catalogue this is the piece that will go through the washing machine most often, and that is why it is the one that gains most from those three rules. Being a light fabric, it can be slightly sheer in white and in light colours: if you want more body, the same design is there on a sweatshirt.
«Orlok» is also on t-shirt, 23.95 € · mug, 26.95 € · poster, 32.95 € · women's t-shirt, 33.95 € · sweatshirt, 54.95 € · hoodie, 61.95 €
The drawing on «Orlok»
Count Orlok as a bust: a bald, elongated skull, pointed ears, sunken sockets, the two central rat incisors —not side fangs— and the high collar of the coat.
Where this drawing comes from
The teeth are in the middle, like a rat's, and not at the sides like the drawing-room vampire's. That detail is an invention of the 1922 film and is not in the novel.
The silent film F. W. Murnau shot for Prana-Film in 1922, with Max Schreck in the part. The bald, big-eared vampire with sharpened central incisors was invented on that shoot: it appears nowhere in Stoker's 1897 novel, and that is why the figure is in the public domain.
