Undead Blonde Hair in the Victorian Imagination: The Hungarian Roots of Bram Stoker’s 'The Secret of the Growing Gold'

This paper examined how Bram Stoker's short story "The Secret of the Growing Gold" reinterpreted the Hungarian folktale "Woman with Hair of Gold," originally part of a feminine mythos, to reflect British Victorian racial anxieties. Stoker's adaptation removed the feminine perspective and introduced themes of Teutonic superiority, linking these ideas with Hungarian folklore, which the author argued was a dangerous and nefarious fiction.