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The Raven vs Dracula

The Raven vs Dracula

Howard Jackson compares Bram Stoker’s gothic masterpiece Dracula with the equally terrifying work of Edgar Allan Poe.

On Bram Stoker's Dracula

On Bram Stoker’s Dracula

Guest writer REN ZELEN looks back on the 100 years since Bram Stoker’s death and reports how his most famous creation, Dracula, continues “to feed on the lifeblood of our culture”

Where are the British vampires?

Where are the British vampires?

British and Irish authors have created the world’s greatest vampire literature but funnily enough, we have few homegrown bloodsucking legends of our own. Guest writer VIOLET FENN asks why.

Dracula (1958) re-viewed

Dracula (1958) re-viewed

I DARTED to our local shopping centre the minute its new video store opened in the late 1980s. As I’ve said in this blog before trying to watch Hammer Horror in Geelong, Australia, in my youth was near impossible. But the opening of Video Ezy brought forth the unimaginable – a pristine copy of Horror of Dracula!