May 26 marks the 1897 publication of Bram Stoker's Dracula
May 26 marks the 1897 publication of Bram Stoker's Gothic horror novel Dracula, which introduced Count Dracula and shaped the modern vampire archetype. Stoker set key scenes in the Yorkshire town of Whitby, and Whitby Abbey inspired the novel's ruined-abbey imagery and the fictional Carfax Abbey. Whitby now promotes a 2 kilometer Dracula Trail from the Royal Crescent to Whitby Abbey that typically takes about two hours to walk. Dracula's 1897 publication launched decades of adaptations, from the 1931 Universal Pictures Dracula starring Bela Lugosi to countless contemporary vampire novels and films.
It's #WorldDraculaDay - and about ten years since the release of our Dracula Dossier rpg adventure for Night's Black Agents. We rewrote and annotated Dracula, produced a facsimile of the first edition, and matched it with a giant campaign book. www.kickstarter.com/projects/pel...
Gareth Hanrahan20It was such a joy of a project to work on. Getting to pick apart and rebuild the story, to put back in all the stuff that Stoker took out, to build a century of secret history, and make it all playable... it's still amazingly fun, even after all this time. I'd do it again in a heartbeat.
Mark Caldwell3I hope to have time to run it in about 10 years
