Here's my document showing the history of Nosferatu.

1. History of a horror character: Nosferatu
The film Nosferatu was directed by German Expressionist
director F.W.Muranu and produced by short-lived production
company Prana Film. In Nosferatu, Count Orlok is
a vampire from Transylvania. Orlok, known locally as the
eponymous "Nosferatu", is a living corpse also known as "The
Bird of Death", which feasts upon the blood of living humans.
Orlok is the main model for a style of fictional vampires that
are often nicknamed Nosferatu after the movie. Although
based upon Count Dracula, Orlok possesses none of Dracula’s
charm or seductiveness. He resembles something between
a rat and a spider and is much more similar to historical folklore
accounts of vampires, which were described as walking corpses
inhabited by a demonic presence. He sleeps in "unhallowed" soil infected with the Black
Death, and brings plague and disease with him. He is followed everywhere by rats,
traditional carriers of the feared plague. Orlok is famous for being the first vampire in
history to be destroyed by sunlight. In earlier stories, vampires were disgusted by but could
survive sunlight. The court ordered all existing prints
of Nosferatu burned, but one purported copy of the film had already
been distributed around the world. These prints were duplicated over
the years. Nosferatu is commonly mixed up with the 1924 character
Dracula. Dracula is a 1931 vampire-horror film produced
by Universal and is based on the 1924 stage play Dracula by Hamilton
Deane, which is based on the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. Nosferatu
was remade in 1979 under the title Nosferatu, the Vampyre by
German director Werner Herzog, whose pretentious approach
waswelcome after a decade of vampire spoofs and comedies. Despite
Herzog's good intentions, his film was miscalculated and failed to
equal Murnau's classic, even with the addition of colour and sound.
(Nosferatu, 1924)
(Nosferatu remake, 1979)