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A lesbian vampire couple waylay and abduct various passer-byes, both male and female, to hold them captive at their rural manor in the English countryside in order to kill and feed on them to satisfy their insatiable thirst for bloodhttp://www.horrortheque.com/public-domain-horror-movies/vampyres/
Dracula: was the actor Henry Irving the inspiration for the world’s most famous vampire?
Bram Stoker found Irving spellbinding — and both inspired Joseph O’Connor’s new novel
Joseph O’Connor
Mesmeric: Henry Irving on stage in 1893GETTY IMAGES
The Sunday Times,
In 1847, a dark year for Ireland, famine ravaged the countryside. There were horror stories of half-starved evictees devouring the dead. A kind of zombie imagery was often deployed. “The survivors were like walking skeletons,” observed the English Quaker William Forster. “The town of Westport was a strange and fearful sight, its streets crowded with gaunt wanderers.” In Dublin, on November 8 that year, Abraham Stoker was born.
His Sligo mother had written a gruesome memoir about the effects of cholera on the poor. His father was a civil servant who worked in Dublin Castle, seat of British rule in Ireland. Bram, a lonely child, suffered an illness that made him almost lame, and he rarely attended school. Perhaps his mother read him the ghostly…
