In ‘Shadowplay’ Bram Stoker’s Life Is Even Scarier than His Dracula

Spoiler alert — The imagined life of the man who created the world’s most famous vampire was beset by vampires of his own.

Andrew Jazprose Hill
ILLUMINATION-Curated
6 min readOct 29, 2021

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Color poster showing cropped closeup of Bela Lugosi in the 1931 film version of Dracula
1931 Movie Poster for Dracula via PICRYL Public Domain

If you’ve ever wondered where Bram Stoker got the idea for Dracula, Irish novelist Joseph O’Connor has an answer likely to stand your hair on end…

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Andrew Jazprose Hill
ILLUMINATION-Curated

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