Every Sunday in October, TCM is paying tribute to Dracula the character – as written originally by Bram Stoker in 1897, and brought to the screen in various incarnations ever since. Tonight’s kickoff evening begins with 1931’s Dracula, starring Bela Lugosi, the most famous Dracula of them all (pictured). But it also includes, tonight, that movie’s, and that character’s, official Universal offspring: 1936’s Dracula’s Daughter (9:30 p.m. ET), starring Gloria Holden, and 1943’s Son of Dracula (11 p.m. ET), starring Lon Chaney Jr. And, later, it includes the classic silent movie that was inspired by Stoker’s novel (but without securing film adaptation rights, so character names are different), and predated Lugosi’s Dracula by nine years: F.W. Murnau’s moody, expressionistic 1922 silent film, Nosferatu (12:30 a.m. ET).