Max Schreck proving
silent black and white enough
to give a vampire life,
before horror films even knew
what they were.

Lon Chaney wearing
so many different faces
that their voices
weren’t needed
to scare the anyone.

But then Bela Lugosi shattered it all
by marrying his accent
with Dracula’s undead voice,
and maybe gave fans
their first example of headcanon.