About this episode

Emma Carroll discusses her new vampire book series and the spooky themes of autumn.

With autumn in the air and the nights starting to draw in, it's time to put aside the sun loungers and long for spooky tales around the campfire - and who better to talk with about all things spooky than the brilliant Emma Carroll. The first in her brand new series of vampire books is out this month - Dracula and Daughters describes what happenswhen three cousins discover they’re descendants of Dracula and combine their powers to form a vampire healing company. Given that this comes from Emma, whose work was described as 'dangerous' by none other than Ted Hughes, it's going down big with Nadia and Frank. They might be full of bravado talking to Emma - but it's a shoo in that they'll both be too scared to sleep when it comes time for hitting the hammocks.

People in this episode

Hosts: Frank Cottrell Boyce, Nadia Shireen

Guest: Emma Carroll

Topics covered

• spooky tales
• vampires
• children's literature
• autumn stories
• campfire tales

Keywords

• Emma Carroll
• vampires
• Dracula
• children's books
• spooky stories
• autumn
• campfire

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Dracula and Daughters

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