Bibliography

• For the life – Paul Murray’s From the Shadow of Dracula or Barbara Belford’s biography offer extended accounts.

• For close reading – an annotated or critical edition explains references and introduces different interpretations.

• For original evidence – the facsimile working notes and Lost Journal put Bram’s own records at the centre.

• For theatre and screen history – Catherine Wynne’s work and David Skal’s Hollywood Gothic offer different routes into the afterlife of the writing.

These works return to Dracula, its characters or its narrative world. Recent reimaginings give Lucy Westenra and Dracula’s brides more space, while sequels and crossovers take the story in other directions. Inclusion is a reading suggestion, not Estate endorsement.

Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, Dracula: A stage adaptation published for the Lyric Hammersmith production.

Kiersten White, Lucy Undying: A Dracula Novel: Lucy Westenra’s story continues beyond the events of Bram’s novel.

S. T. Gibson, A Dowry of Blood: A reimagining told through Dracula’s bride Constanta.

Gwendolyn Kiste, Reluctant Immortals: Lucy Westenra and Jane Eyre’s Bertha Mason face their past in 1960s California.

J. S. Barnes, Dracula’s Child: A sequel returning to the surviving characters and the aftermath of Dracula.

These books belong to the wider history of vampire and Gothic fiction; they are not all direct adaptations of Bram’s novel.

Dracula’s afterlife extends through adaptations of the novel and the wider culture of vampire storytelling. These are different relationships. A work can belong to that wider culture without being a direct adaptation or an Estate-endorsed production.

Dracula on Stage and Screen follows selected versions of the novel, including Universal’s 1931 film and Hammer’s 1958 interpretation.

Interview with the Vampire, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and The Twilight Saga offer different approaches to vampire storytelling. Their inclusion here is a reading-and-viewing signpost, not a claim that they adapt Bram’s novel.

Roger Luckhurst (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Dracula (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Essays on the novel, its contexts and its continuing cultural life.

Stoker on Stoker is Dacre Stoker’s presentation drawing on family history and research into Bram’s life. See Events for forthcoming talks.