Bram Stoker's Dracula

Bram Stoker's 1897 Gothic shocker introduced Count Dracula to the world, an ancient creature bent on bringing his contagion to London, the very heart of the British Empire. Only a handful of men and women stand between Dracula and his long-cherished goal, but they are vulnerable and weak against the cunning and supernatural powers of the Count and his legions. As the horrifying story unfolds in the diaries and letters of young Jonathan Harker...  

Vlad Tepes ruled a portion of Romania from 1456-1462. His practice of executing enemies, peasants, and even children by running them through with sharp sticks earned him the title "Vlad the Impaler." (There are also stories of blood drinking and cannibalism, but these have been dismissed as myth by scholars.) Vlad is generally believed to be the inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula -- an idea Transylvanians eagerly embrace, as it sells a lot...  

The author of Dracula died one hundred years ago last Friday - or did he? On a dark and stormy day, Sinclair McKay joined vampire fans in gathering around Bram Stoker's ashes in Golders Green, where a ghoulish symposium was held  

To mark the centenary of Bram Stoker's death, we joined a conference at Keats House in London's Hampstead where the great and the ghouls of vampire scholarship joined up for two days of talks.Stoker's great-grandnephew Dacre Stoker and the scholar Elizabeth Miller introduced their new book based on the discovery of a set of journals written by Stoker in his early years. Christopher Frayling explains why he regrets vampires becoming mainstream...  

A hundred years after Bram Stoker's death, we still know remarkably little about the creator of the best-known vampire in literary and film historyWhen Bram Stoker died, 100 years ago, his obituaries, such as they were, emphasised his geniality, his long-term friendship with the actor Henry Irving, his association with the power-brokers of the day – and, only in asides, the 19 books he wrote. They scarcely mentioned Dracula at all. Today, they...  

"The effect is more often grotesque than terrible": The Manchester Guardian reviews Dracula by Bram StokerToday marks the centenary of the death of Bram Stoker, and commemorations of the Irish author's life and career will undoubtedly focus on Dracula, his most famous work.An entire industry has evolved around Stoker and his deathless novel, with the author often being hailed as the father of the modern vampire novel which abounds today. Yet...  

The Descent director, Neil Marshall, may finally launch The Last Voyage of the Demeter, a Dracula-themed feature that has been land-locked for the past decade.  The story of Demeter goes back more than a century; it was the name of the ship that transported Dracula from Transylvania to London in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel.  The tale tells of the Demeter washing ashore in London as a near wreck with only one stark raving mad survivor on board...  

On the 100th anniversary of Bram Stoker's death, Will Hill picks his favourite bloodsuckers in fiction and popular culture"Vampires have been popular in literature since 1897, when Bram Stoker's Dracula received overwhelming praise upon its publication. Over the more than a century that has followed, hundreds of writers have turned to vampires to tell stories, each focusing on the particular aspect of the legend that interested them; religion...  

While on vacation and wearing a Transylvania University T-shirt, Brian Lane had any number of conversations about what you might guess. Vampires. Anne Rice novels. Bram Stoker's "Dracula." A hit television series on HBO. The mega-success of Twilight Saga. The love-affair with blood-suckers and Transylvania has always been part of pop culture. That Transylvania, however, is located near the Carpathian mountains in the central part of...  

From Count Dracula to Edward Cullen, the depiction of the vampire has assumed many different incarnations over the centuriesThe first mention of Bram Stoker's Dracula in The Guardian came in its Books Of The Week round-up on 15 June 1897. It's worth quoting in full:A writer who attempts in the nineteenth century to rehabilitate the ancient legends of the were-wolf and the vampire has set himself a formidable task. Most of the delightful old...  

Count Dracula, Bram Stoker's human vampire, who has chilled the spines of book readers and playgoers, is now to be seen at the Roxy in a talking film directed by Tod Browning, who delights in such bloodcurdling stories. It is a production that evidently ...  

The historian, Fiona Fitzsimons, has been studying the Dublin-born author's family tree since November, ahead of the centenary of his death on Friday. She has traced and documented Stoker's direct descent from Manus "the Magnificent" O'Donnell - an Irish ...  

findmypast.ie has conducted research on Bram Stoker's family tree which sheds new light on how he created the gothic horrors of Dracula Count Dracula, the Transylvanian nobleman and daddy of all vampires, was originally Irish rather than Transylvanian ...  

THE WRITER: BRAM STOKER is rightly acclaimed as the author of a masterpiece of Gothic fiction that deals with the “undead” and the power of the past to throw a shadow over the present. It is not so well known that Stoker also had his eye on the future ...  

Celebrated Dracula historian ElizaBeth Miller and members of the Stoker family flew in ... has been here for 178 years and was the 5th re-build which took place in 1834 by Samuel Beazley. The current Lyceum Theatre will celebrate it’s 178th ...