This is FRESH AIR. I'm Dave Davies, in for Terry Gross. British actor Christopher Lee died Sunday in London at the age of 93. You can tell something about his career from the title of his 1977 memoir, ...

Up at the castle, the truth, at last, can be told. The man known to the West as the world’s most voracious vampire, the fang-toothed monster of cloak and coffin – the killer himself – was here. And ...

Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula adaptation is beautifully epic and tragic from the very first frame, masterfully condensing the Transylvanian Count's backstory within minutes. Set in the 15th century, ...

If it`s Halloween, then it must be time for fright-filled entertainment on local community theater stages. One of the most promising new holiday productions to open this week comes at an unlikely ...

Frank Wildhorn just can't get his fill of gothic horror yarns. Last Sunday saw the closing of the composer's latest musical, Dracula, after a Broadway run of less than five months — and predictably ...

Elizabeth Kostova used some unconventional ingredients from her own life — a childhood spent listening to Dracula tales, a love of Balkan folk music and a passion for libraries — to produce a début ...