S19 Ep45: Bram Stoker: Father Of Dracula w/ Dacre Stoker
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🗓️ 11 April 2024
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Bram Stoker’s Dracula is one of the most successful novels in history. The tale of the evil Count has thrilled and fascinated people since its publication in 1897.
The novel has never been out of print and has been translated into thirty languages and sold in over a hundred and twenty countries worldwide. Count Dracula is now regarded as one of the most famous fictional characters in history.
The image of the undead vampire as a symbol of evil is now firmly embedded in our collective consciousness, thanks to Stoker. Paradoxically, Dracula has also become a symbol of forbidden lust thanks to the later portrayals of the character by Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee, and Frank Langella.
But what of Bram Stoker, the man behind the creation? Sadly, he left no autobiography and precious little first-hand source material for us to better understand his life and inspirations for his writing of Dracula.
However, by examining his private journals, notes, and the memories of those who knew him we can piece together an account of his life and learn much about the man who became the father of Dracula.
Dacre Stoker Joins Darkness Radio today to describe how he, filmmaker Jason Figgis. and author and screenwriter, John West are putting together that documentary of Bram Stoker's life titled, "Father Of Dracula". Stoker also tells us how we can help get it to the finish line through a 60 day crowdsourcing campaign through Indiegogo!
Find out more about Dacre Stoker here: http://dacrestoker.com/about/
Find out how you can help get "Father Of Dracula" over the finish line through Indigogo: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/bram-stoker-father-of-dracula#/
The Stokerverse is on Facebook! Check out the different merch here: https://www.facebook.com/StokerMcAuley
Dacre Stoker will be at Michigan Paracon! Get your tickets while you can! Click here to learn more: https://saultstemarie.com/events-calendar/michigan-paranormal-convention/
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| 0:00.0 | The Oh, Welcome and to the best in paranormal programming. This is Darkness Radio. I'm your host Tim Dennis. You know folks I was putting together |
| 0:36.5 | shows not too long ago a week or two ago got an email that absolutely no intended, stoked my interests like there is no tomorrow. |
| 0:47.0 | I saw that there's a brand new project out there and you know it's from a good friend of ours an old friend of ours. |
| 0:53.0 | Daker Stoker is out there and he has a brand new project having to do with |
| 0:57.2 | Dracula. |
| 0:58.8 | Now we had him on the program previously with Chris McCauley and they had some other projects going on with |
| 1:06.0 | Dracula and this time around there's a brand new documentary film that he's putting together with Irish filmmaker Jason Figgus |
| 1:15.8 | and it's being written by John West. And when I saw this I absolutely popped, I went, |
| 1:22.2 | wow, okay, all all right here we go because you know |
| 1:25.6 | Hollywood recently came out with a film based on loosely based now we'll talk |
| 1:30.5 | about it with with Daker about just a sliver of the Dracula novel. |
| 1:36.2 | They took just a slight sliver of it. It was just Dracula's voyage on the ship and they took and tried to make a whole movie out of it. |
| 1:47.5 | Well, it was okay. I just thought it was okay. We'll get takers take on it, what he thought of it. I know he went to the |
| 1:55.2 | premiere and we'll talk about that right away here in the beginning but but now |
| 2:01.1 | here we're going to get Bram Stoker's life story in a brand new documentary and |
| 2:07.5 | we'll tell you how you can get involved with it. |
| 2:10.5 | It's an exciting show today folks. |
| 2:13.7 | Let's jump into it right away, shall we? |
| 2:16.1 | First, let's tell you a little bit about Daker. |
| 2:17.4 | If you don't remember from the last time, |
| 2:18.7 | he's the great-grand-nephew of Bramstoker |
| 2:21.3 | and the international best-selling co-author of Dracula the undead, the official |
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