Dracula
“Golden Globe winner Jonathan Rhys Meyers (The Tudors) stars in this provocative new drama as one of the world’s most iconic characters. It’s the late 19th century and the mysterious Dracula (Rhys...
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Kim Newman Interview – Bram Stoker Festival Preview | No More Workhorse
Kim Newman is an expert in all things that go bump in the night. He is the writer of the Anno Dracula series and a regular film reviewer for the Guardian. He has been given the enviable job of...
View ArticleRomanian Historian Who Debunked Dracula Myth Dies – ABC News
He was a Romanian-born historian, professor and philanthropist who intrigued American popular culture by writing a book linking the fictional Count Dracula to the 15th-century Romanian prince Vlad the...
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Nosferatu the Vampyre – DVD review – Film-News.co.uk
Deliberately slow-paced as if stuck in a permanent nightmare – Werner Herzog’s homage to F.W. Murnau’s 1922 German expressionist horror is richly textured and heavily stylised, even pestilence and the...
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Irish translation of ‘Dracula’ funded by minister who slashed the old-age...
Former minister for finance Ernest Blythe who, in a previous era of austerity, cut the old-age pension still found public funds to translate Dracula into Irish, it has emerged. via Irish translation...
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Bram Stoker a hero for struggling corner of Romania
The medieval town of Sighisoara in the heart of Transylvania is breathtakingly beautiful. Its narrow, cobbled streets, its brightly coloured houses, the atmospheric square dominated by an imposing...
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Bram Stoker’s Dracula play script to go on display at British Library : News...
A rare manuscript for a stage production of Dracula written by Bram Stoker himself is to go on display at the British Library. via Bram Stoker's Dracula play script to go on display at British Library...
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Northern Ballet: Dracula review – lashings of gothic coupling | Stage | The...
In his production of Dracula for Northern Ballet, choreographer-director David Nixon gives us the vampire as hard-bodied sex symbol. Indeed, our first sight of Dracula (Javier Torres) is when he...
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Archaeologists Believe They’ve Found Dungeons That Held ‘Dracula’– The Epoch...
Archaeologists in Turkey have uncovered a secret tunnel, storage rooms, a military shelter, and two dungeons during restoration work on Tokat Castle, where Vlad III the Impaler, who served as the...
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The nourishing blood of the novelist
In 1819 a story called The Vampyre was published, in which the creature who traditionally looked like a hobbit and lived down a mole hole was refashioned as a melancholy aristocrat in riding boots and...
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