Fangs for the memories: how Dracula was made in Derby
January 2024
Dracula writer Bram Stoker revealed as a humble minute taker for actor charity
Before publishing his vampire classic in 1897, the author was employed as a personal secretary at the Actors’ Benevolent Fund
October 2023
The Guardian view on goth: not just for Halloween
Editorial: A series of weighty new studies points to a revival of interest in a saturnine subculture. It may be a sign of the times
September 2023
Dracula: Mina’s Reckoning review – compelling feminist spin unsettles from the shadows
All-female production tells Bram Stoker’s story from the perspective of women trying to escape patriarchy – it’s often urgent, but sometimes sucked of energy
August 2023
The Last Voyage of the Demeter review – Dracula horror is lost at sea
A chapter from Bram Stoker’s Dracula, set upon a ship, is expanded to a gory 2-hour film, an idea that works better in theory than in practice
June 2023
Bram Stoker’s Dracula inspired by writings of maverick Scotswoman
Research into folklore of Transylvania by 19th-century writer Emily Gerard directly inspired author of famous novel
December 2022
What was Dracula really like? 550-year-old clue to life of Vlad the Impaler emerges
Scientists are hoping ‘historical biomolecules’ on a 15th-century missive written by Vlad Dracula, the inspiration for Bram Stoker’s vampire count, will reveal more about him
October 2022
Cutting his teeth: how Bram Stoker found his inner Dracula in Scotland
Bram Stoker’s Dracula review – Gary Oldman is Pierrot from hell in blood-red 90s take
May 2022
Fanging out: Whitby’s record-breaking vampire gathering – in pictures
People dressed as vampires gathered at Whitby Abbey, England. They broke the world record for the largest gathering of vampires in one location with 1,369 bloodsuckers
Record-breaking vampires at Whitby Abbey mark 125 years of Dracula
A fanged crowd of 1,369 broke the Guinness World Record for vampire gatherings in celebration of Bram Stoker’s classic novel
The pub walk
A Dracula-themed walk to a great pub: Kilmarnock Arms, Cruden Bay
Dracula is 125 this month. This walk takes in the castle and treacherous coast that inspired Bram Stoker, and ends in the pub where he began writing the book
April 2022
Whitby Abbey seeks budding bloodsuckers to break vampire record
English Heritage announce bid to stage world’s largest gathering of people dressed as a vampire at site that inspired Bram Stoker
October 2021
Dracula: The Untold Story review – gripping vampire tale with added bite
Imitating the Dog’s technical marvel of a show turns an updated version of Bram Stoker’s novel into a live-action graphic novel
September 2021
Dracula: The Untold Story review – a wild gothic thrill ride
For a tale of the undead, Imitating the Dog’s inventive blend of live theatre and tech is bursting with life
May 2021
‘Dracula’s castle’ offers tourists Covid shots
Visitors to Bran Castle in Romania offered vaccines – with a free trip to the ‘torture chamber’ thrown in
February 2021
They came at night: how a Spanish-speaking cast shot an alternative Dracula after Bela Lugosi had gone to bed
Ninety years ago, two groundbreaking horror movies were movies: Lugosi’s official chiller and a covert version – which might just be its superior
October 2020
Weatherwatch
Weatherwatch: 1885 Whitby storm inspired grim scene in Dracula
In gothic horror novel, an immense dog leaps from wreck of ‘strange schooner’
January 2020
Names in the news
Sharon Stone: bumbling dating app is no match for a true star
Rebecca Nicholson
This was no impostor – this really was the star of Basic Instinct
