"That really rocked me because I'd read Dracula many times and it always started with Jonathan Harker on that train - and to imagine that there were 101 pages that preceded that, that were no longer there, that was absolutely fascinating." "The first was that Bram actually tried to sell it as a true story, and the second fact was that the first 101 pages of the novel were actually cut from the book by his publisher," he says. this all came as a perfect storm to Bram Stoker's mind."īarker says Dacre told him two things when he was first approached to write the book. "Combined with Bram's own strange childhood illness - where I believe he was bloodlet, and traumatised by the stories his mom told him about people being buried prematurely, and on top of that his nanny telling him these great Irish folklore stories of vampires and fairies and banshees and things. He says that's much like the famous original 1897 novel - which was in part based on detailed research and interest in vampires from cultures around the world.
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