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‘It still haunts me’: the puppet show Dracula that’s definitely not for small children

The dreaded bloodsucker will be getting his fangs into the Edinburgh fringe this year – in a deeply creepy, liberty-taking show with a sisterly twist. We meet its director

The Guardian - UK

Dracula review – Cynthia Erivo’s magnificent modern bloodsucker is defanged in one-woman show

Deploying accents and wigs, the Wicked star takes on all Bram Stoker’s characters, but the atmosphere lacks the fever or diabolicism required

The Guardian - UK

Dracula: Cynthia Erivo is extraordinary in this one-woman multimedia show

4/5 Kip Williams’ production at the Noël Coward Theatre is a spectacular star vehicle for Erivo which brings Bram Stoker’s tale right into the horrific present

Evening Standard

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Vampire games were neglected in 2025, but their shunning only proves my point: this was the year of the underdog bloodsucker

Year in Review 2025 | Even Dracula needs a friend

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Where to Watch 'Dracula: A Love Tale' in US & UK: Release Date, Plot and Cast Details of the Latest Vampire Heartbreaker

'Dracula: A Love Tale' is scheduled to premiere at the Soho Horror Film Festival on 21 November 2025 at the Coldharbour Blue Cinema.

International Business Times UK

A brief history of comic book vampires – including a homage to Donald Trump

In Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula (1887), an English solicitor (Jonathan Harker) is sent to Transylvania to assist Count Dracula, an aristocrat, in his move to England. When Harker discovers Dracula lying in a coffin after feeding on blood, he understands the threat that Dracula poses to England.

The Conversation

Review: Dracula: A Love Tale Casts the Title Character as a Trad Religious Hero

Director Luc Besson delivers a conservative interpretation of Bram Stoker's classic vampire novel.

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The week in theatre: Retrograde; Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors – review

Ivanno Jeremiah rivets as Sidney Poitier in Ryan Calais Cameron’s electrifying McCarthy-era three-hander. Plus, a strenuously madcap vampire spoof

The Guardian - UK

Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors review – batty antics with a Rocky Horror bloodsucker

As a gym-bunny vampire channelling Frank-N-Furter, James Daly leads a superb cast in a gender and genre-inverting romp that lacks bite

The Guardian - UK

Dracula, a Comedy of Terrors at the Menier Chocolate Factory review: toothless show lacks bite

2/5 Despite a talented cast, this Dracula spoof entirely misses the jugular

Evening Standard

Horror, satire, tawdry wealth and postcolonial critique: 5 classics to catch up on this summer

I’ve dedicated my professional life to reading and teaching the English classics. The crucial thing about classics is that they start as cutting-edge literary experiments.

The Conversation

Best vampire books of all time, from Dracula to Salem's Lot

Novels to get the blood pumping

Evening Standard

Best Gothic novels for classic, dramatic and unsettling stories

Make every season spooky

Evening Standard

Why Francis Ford Coppola’s Dracula is and always will be the best adaptation of the legendary Bram Stoker novel

Opinion: We look back at the best on-screen depiction of everyone's favorite vampiric count

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Evening Standard

20 of the best supernatural books for splendid spooking

Lovecraftian tales featuring creatures of the night

Zenger

The Religious Connections To Halloween’s Scariest Monsters

The annual celebration of Halloween is marked by fun and frightening traditions that involve monsters.

The Conversation

Castlevania: how the video game was inspired by classic Dracula horror films

If you’re one of the talented few who have completed Konami’s 1986 gothic horror action-adventure game Castlevania then you’ve seen the game’s unusual closing credits. Instead of a list of the names of people who worked on the game, it is instead an homage to those involved in classic horror…

The Guardian - UK

New blood: Scotland to stage all-woman and non-binary Dracula play

Set in a psychiatric hospital in Aberdeenshire, new National Theatre production puts Mina Murray at centre of action

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Bram Stoker's Dracula: bats, garlic, disturbing sexualities and a declining empire

In our Guide to the Classics series, experts explain key works of literature.

Salon

The queer horror of "Dracula"

A lavender-tinted look at Bram Stoker and the seminal novel he wrote 125 years ago

The Conversation

'Dracula Daily' reanimates the classic vampire novel for the age of memes and snark

If you’re an active social media user, perhaps you’ve noticed a surge in posts recently about paprika, reflective shaving glasses and castle hospitality in Transylvania. One hundred twenty-five years after its initial publication, Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” is having a resurgence.

The Guardian - UK

TechScape: Apple, Google and Microsoft are about to make passwords a thing of the past

In this week’s newsletter: safer than two-factor authentication and easier than remembering dozens of codes, the ‘Fido’ system will make our digital lives smoother

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