Chapter 1 Jonathan Harker's Journal, 3rd of May, left Munich at 8.35pm on 1st of May arriving

Vienna early next morning. Mina Murray's Journal, 26th of July,

I am anxious and it soothes me to express myself here. It's like whispering to oneself.

Memorandum left by Lucy Westonra, 17th of September. I was waked by a flapping at my window,

which had begun after that sleepwalking on the cliff at Westminster Gazette, 25th of September.

In all these cases, the children were too young to give any properly intelligible account,

but the consensus of their excuses is that they had been with the Bluffer lady. Dr.

Seward's Diary, 29th of October. Jonathan Harker's Journal, 8th of October,

Van Helsing's Memorandum, 5th of November. In 1897, author Bram Stoker published his vampire novel

Dracula. It wasn't the first vampire story. Stoker had plucked inspiration from folklore,

as well as historical figures such as Vlad the Impaler, and even newspaper clippings with

true accounts of so-called vampirism, such as the mercy brown vampire incident from 1892.

Stoker took all of these influences and used them to tell an exciting contemporary story,

all told via journal entries, letters, telegrams, newspaper articles about a monstrous vampire

from Transylvania, traveling to England to feast on women's blood. Dracula became one of the

most famous and successful works in English literature history, and Count Dracula himself has

become the most portrayed fictional character of all time.

Join me as we continue exploring the evolution of the vampire, and we look at Bram Stoker's

seminal 1897 novel Dracula.

Welcome back to the evolution of horror. My name is Mike Munter, and as ever, I am your host.

If you're tuning in for the first time, then welcome. In this podcast, we explore and dissect

the history and the evolution of the horror genre by looking at particular subgenres one series

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