A talk on Bram Stoker’s Dracula, a remarkable epistolary novel written in 1897, full of horror and erotica that would influence and inspire sensational adaptations in movies, the theatre and pictorial art, serious and camp. While no literary masterpiece, Dracula shows that Abraham Stoker (1847-1912), an Irish author who spent his professional time as business manager of London’s West End’s Lyceum Theatre, knew his way around Gothic and Romantic literature, meta-philosophy and some of the scientific experimentation of the day. What is it about the book that lends itself to a legend that that has proved so attractive and enduring?