Obsessed with the 1897 Gothic horror novel and its Hollywood permutations since childhood, the filmmaker now admits the author "was a bit of a hack." By Robert Eggers Touting its “terror, eroticism, ...

The first time I saw Bram Stoker’s Dracula on television, I hated it. But then, it could be argued, I didn’t really see the movie Francis Ford Coppola had made. This irony rings true for a number of ...

Dracula is one of the most recognizable figures in popular culture, having been a mainstay of literature, film, stage, comics, TV, and more for 125 years. And it all flows back to Bram Stoker’s ...

As a massive horror nerd and huge fan of Bram Stoker's legendary 1897 novel Dracula, I often struggle to enjoy film adaptations of his work. Many of them go wildly off-script, or focus more on cheap ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Not many directors in the history of the medium have been able to tell intimate, character-based stories against epic backdrops that actually feel epic, rather than ...

Adam McKay’s upcoming comedy Renfield reimagines the fate of the vampire Dracula’s most fanatic devotee. In McKay’s version, which is set in the present, Renfield (Nicholas Hoult), rather than begging ...

Klinger is editor of "The New Annotated Dracula" and "The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes." The ending of Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” (1897) has long troubled readers. Professor Abraham Van Helsing, the ...

As hallowed and unhallowed nights crop up in the calendar one’s hand turns instinctively to appropriate kinds of literature. At this time of year Dracula, and its numerous spawn, from Buffy to Rick ...

Dacre Stoker will never forget how he discovered his family history. It was Halloween, and some revelers showed up at the door with a twist on the usual “Trick or treat” spiel: “Are the Stokers gonna ...

BUCHAREST, Romania—About eight hours’ drive from the capital, and another four hours’ trek from the nearest road, Izvorul Calimanului Mountain looks like many of the Carpathians’ uninhabited peaks: ...