“Bram Stoker knew what he was doing”

    In an interview with Fangoria, posted by Alondra Rogers on June 26, 2011, Stoker nominated Adam-Troy Castro, opined that  “Bram Stoker knew what he was doing.” Castro is author of

V is For Vampire: an Illustrated Alphabet Of The Undead, illustrated by Johnny Atomic.

FANG: The very first vampire folklore described them as nearly mindless ghouls who returned to their villages nightly to prey upon family members. How, or perhaps why, do you think the vampire evolved into a suave ladies’ man or enchanting seductress?

CASTRO: Bram Stoker knew what he was doing. That was essentially it. He knew he was sublimating sexual images in the Victorian age. When the stage production of DRACULA proved that acting like a vampire could make a funny-looking middle-aged man like Bela Lugosi a sex symbol, the handwriting was on the wall. 

Frank Delaney's 'UNDEAD: the Birth of Dracula' Takes a Bite Out of ...

By Matt Staggs

Along the way, Delaney considers the life and work of Dracula author Bram Stoker and his influences. At only .99 cents, Delaney's single, UNDEAD: the Birth of Dracula, is a great bargain for anyone interested in the world's most famous ...

Animated Dracula Movie Adds Half the Cast of 'Grown Ups',

Reaffirming Grown Ups' timeless message that Adam Sandler likes getting his friends jobs, that film's amassing of Sandler, Kevin James, David Spade, ...

In "The Hindu" Latha Anantharam, reports on the August issue of the literary magazine, "Granta", which focuses on horror....

"Absolutely Eerie"

"Mark Doty's “Insatiable” is an essay on the astonishing correspondence between the sunny Walt Whitman and Bram Stoker, surely one of the darkest writers we know. What the two writers had in common, as we would see if we laid their works side by side, is their frank eroticism. One weaves the erotic with the spiritual. The other weaves the erotic with the ghoulish. But Doty quotes from the actual letters written between the two. Stoker, it appears, based the character of Dracula on Whitman, and Doty takes off from there. It is not an academic essay, and Doty throws in his deeply personal accounts of amorous encounters.

Listen to Stoker relative Douglas Appleyard and Derek Mooney (RTE 1Radio) discuss placing a statue of Bram Stoker in Dublin and raising public awareness of Bram Stoker as an Irishman. In a poll, 98% of the Mooney listeners would like a statue to honor Bram Stoker. The Stoker Family and “Friends of Bram Stoker” plan to raise funds for the statue privately.

Making An Authentic Count Dracula Costume Is Easy — YJCATV

By Lynn Robinson

There are many factors that go into making an authentic Count Dracula costume. To start, you need to know the weather for your area. If you're going to a party or are going trick or treating, is the party inside or out?

10 Decades of movie and TV vampires: Bloodsuckers through the years

Plain Dealer (blog)

The 1940s: "House of Dracula" (1945): John Carradine gave us a new kind of Dracula and a new kind of vampire. Although ultimately still a predator, his Dracula was weary, struggling through the centuries with a curse and searching for a cure. ...

Time for 'Dracula therapy' - The Times of India

With vampires enjoying unprecedented popularity thanks to series like True Blood and Vampire Diaries and movies like Twilight, here's something only the “fan”glers out there might appreciate.

Sir Christopher Lee remembers sharing a joke with Vincent Price

The Telegraph 2 December 2011

The Australian arachnid Draculoides bramstokeri, is so named because it crunches its victims and sucks their juices.

Excerpt from a Huffington Post Interview

with Oscar nominee Gary Oldman: 7 February 2012

When you read a script, what makes you want to do a film?

It can be many things. It normally is the material and the director. But I can give you a specific example. When I read the script for "Dracula," it had a line in it, he said, "I've crossed oceans of time to find you," I wanted to do the movie for that line. I wanted to say that line to someone. I just thought that was an amazing line, and I thought, Who wouldn't want to say that to someone they loved? And that hooked me.