McVladie interviews Elizabeth Miller

8 November 2011 · Gravedigger’s Local 16

Carlota McNally (McVladie)

Bram Stoker Estate account

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Elizabeth Miller discusses the questions and misconceptions that shaped her work as a Dracula scholar. Interviewed by Carlota McNally, writing as McVladie, she argues that Stoker borrowed the name Dracula but knew too little about Vlad the Impaler to base the whole novel on him. The conversation ranges from the novel’s characters and Miller’s bat jewellery to her friendships with Raymond McNally, Nicolae Paduraru and Ingrid Pitt. She also describes meeting Dacre Stoker and their work on the unpublished Dublin notebook, ahead of its appearance in the centenary year of 2012. Her answers offer both a statement of her research position and a personal portrait of a scholar responding to readers, enthusiasts and persistent vampire myths.

Complete interview recovered and inspected in the Internet Archive capture of 10 September 2015. Original publisher date: 8 November 2011. Carlota McNally / McVladie conducted the interview; “Front Office” is the site posting credit. The copyrighted interview is linked, not reproduced in full. Its proposed 2012 book title is retained as contemporary wording, not the final published title.

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Elizabeth Miller “as Van Helsing”, as captioned in the 2011 interview.Photograph published by Gravedigger’s Local 16; photographer not identified.Copyright remains with the photographer or rights holder.