Bram Stoker went home from Whitby with the bones of a monster. So how did they become the most famous vampire in the world?

In Part Two here, we follow the seven years it took Stoker to write Dracula, and the disastrous stage reading at the Lyceum Theatre in 1897. We look at what the novel was really saying about Victorian Britain: its fear of the “New Woman”, who was independent, outspoken and sexual, and its terror of syphilis, the disease that passed through the blood and haunted the age.

Then we follow the Count’s strange afterlife: Florence Stoker’s court battle against Nosferatu, Bela Lugosi being buried in his cape, Christopher Lee’s years with Hammer, and Francis Ford Coppola’s Oscar-winning film.

We finish back where it all started, in Whitby, where the Goth Weekend has brought thousands of people in black to the town since 1994.

Missed Part One? Start there for the holiday that started it all.

Huge thanks to my researcher, Lauren, for her invaluable input: Website: laurenburles.com

IG: yogabylauren Substack: laurenburles.subtack.com

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About the show About the show Bad, Mad & Northern is a history and true crime podcast about the villains, eccentrics and extraordinary stories of the North: murderers and body snatchers, kings and rebels, drowned villages and Cold War secrets. Released very Wednesday and Saturday, each new episode is carefully researched and told with honesty about the sources, and a healthy dose of northern sarcasm.

Meet your host I'm Lucy Sheridan: author, speaker, and proud northerner, recording from an armchair in the Peak District. I've always been drawn to the darker corners of our history, and this show is where I get to share them with you. Pull up a chair.

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