God’s Madmen: 121 Years of Bram Stoker’s “Dracula”

This weekend marks the 121st anniversary of the publication of Bram Stoker’s seminal novel DRACULA. Stoker’s epistolary horror classic was neither the first nor last vampire tale to be written, but it succeeded in thrusting the vampire into mainstream consciousness and effectively demarcating a specific contemporary interpretation of the mythological figure for the next one-hundred years.