#11: Dacre Stoker
from Dark Sky Twelve Hosted by mike jaynes
[NOTE: this was recorded when the show was named "The Lunar Podcast." It is now "Dark Sky Twelve"] instagram @darkskytwelve twitter@darkskytwelve Dacre Stoker is the Great Grandnephew of Bram Stoker, the author of the 1897 Dracula. Dacre is an international best-selling author and a Bram Stoker authority. He joins me for this episode via phone. For over an hour we discuss Bram Stoker, Dracula, Vlad the Impaler, the vampire scares of the 1700s, the hubris of the western world, Dacre’s familial connection with Bram Stoker, the contemporary interest in vampires, Van Helsing/Myth vs. Seward/Science, late Victorian anxieties, Spiritualism, blood transfusions in the 1890s, education, modern pentathlon, the 1980 Olympic boycott, Dracula’s 101 missing pages, and more. All opinions are mine and the guest's!
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