Dracula - Best of Coast to Coast AM - 2/9/26
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4.1 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
George Noory and author Les Klinger explore Bram Stoker's classic horror novel Dracula, why vampires continue to be so popular in movies and books, plus his research into Sherlock Holmes and if the famous detective could have been a real person.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast AM on IHeart Radio. |
| 0:09.3 | And welcome back to coast to coast. |
| 0:11.3 | George Norrie with you. |
| 0:12.4 | Les Klinger is considered to be one of the world's foremost authorities on Sherlock Holmes, |
| 0:17.7 | Dracula, H.P. Lovecraft, Frankenstein, and the history of mystery and horror fiction. |
| 0:23.7 | He's the editor and author of many books. He's a two-time Edgar Award winner and has edited |
| 0:29.4 | two anthologies of classic 19th century mysteries, along with co-editing five anthologies of Sherlock Holmes |
| 0:36.4 | stories. |
| 0:44.3 | He is the New York Times best-selling editor of New Ennecated Dracula. |
| 0:46.0 | Les, welcome back. |
| 0:46.6 | How have you been? |
| 0:48.7 | I've been good, George. How are you? |
| 0:49.1 | Great. |
| 0:51.9 | And I'm glad you're not with The Washington Post right now. |
| 0:53.4 | Well, me too. |
| 0:55.8 | It's a bad time to be a journalist a journalist you have any friends out that way I do one my my old friend Michael |
| 1:03.3 | Durda who is still on the staff going to still be doing books thank goodness |
| 1:08.7 | good for him now how did you get interested in Bram Stoker? |
| 1:12.5 | Well, when I was finished with my Sherlock Holmes books, which were, that was a passion |
| 1:18.6 | that I discovered in law school and was fascinated by Holmes for years and years. |
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