Bram Stoker ~ Inventing Immortality

About this episode

The episode explores Bram Stoker's influence on literature and the cultural context of Victorian England.

Send us Fan Mail Episode 265 🌙🦇 England, 1897. The gas lamps flicker through the London fog. 💨🏮 Horse-drawn carriages clatter over wet cobblestones. 🐎🌧️ The British Empire is at its height—an age of invention, progress, and discovery. ⚙️🚂🌍 But when darkness falls, another world emerges. 🌑 In quiet parlours and candlelit rooms, people still whisper tales of ghosts 👻, curses ⚰️, and strange creatures lurking beyond the edge of civilisation. 🐺🌲 And somewhere in this world sits an Irish writer w...

People in this episode

Host: Darren

Topics covered

• Bram Stoker
• Dracula
• Victorian England
• literature
• gothic horror
• cultural history

Keywords

• Bram Stoker
• Dracula
• Victorian
• gothic
• literature
• history
• immortality

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Dracula

Places: England

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