Those pages were discovered in a Pennsylvania barn in the 1980s under the title 'The Undead. The author was there to promote Dracul, which is the first-ever prequel authorized by the Stoker estate.ĭracul fills in some mysteries about Dracula's origins, including the first 102 pages cut from the original novel. We spoke with Dacre in Savannah - a city crawling with as many ghost tours as ghost stories. Notably the best-selling Interview With A Vampire books by Annie Rice, The Twilight saga, HBO's True Blood series, fan fiction, comic books and muppets. The seminal gothic novel has never been out of print and continues to inspire others. That's thanks to actors Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee and Frank Langella.

While few have actually read Bram Stoker's 1987 novel, Dracula, they know a lot about him.

On Second Thought host Virginia Prescott speaks with Dacre Stoker For decades, Stoker has been piecing together clues about what moved his great grand-uncle, Bram Stoker to write Dracula. AP Imagesĭacre Stoker tells On Second Thought 'Dracula' derives from old folk tales and superstitions. The book was written by Bram Stokers great-grandnephew Dacre Stoker and American author J. Dacre Stoker, a descendant of Bram Stoker, speaks during an interview at Bran Castle in Bran, Romania, Monday, Oct. At lastthe sequel to Bram Stokers classic novel Dracula, written by his direct descendant and a Dracula historian Bram Stokers Dracula is the prototypical horror novel, an inspiration for the worlds seemingly limitless fascination with vampires. Dracul is a 2018 prequel novel to Bram Stokers classic 1897 work Dracula.

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