Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2023-10-31
Books mentioned on The True Story of Dracula
Robert sits down with Jack O'Brien to talk about how the life of a Transylvanian prince turned into the story of Dracula. (1 part) Sources: https://warfarehistorynetwork.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Dracula
Dracula by Bram Stoker is a classic 1897 epistolary horror novel that established the modern literary vampire and the archetype of Count Dracula.
Discussed“All of this kind of fuses together to create the Dracula that he writes in his book Dracula in 1890, right? And that is 1890 something like that.”
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The Vampire Archives
Discussed“Who in 1819 writes an article called The Vampire, a tale by Lord Byron. And this is this is going to spread this is a very popular story.”
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An appeal in favor of that class of Americans called Africans
Discussed“This is published 14 years before Lydia Child is going to write a book called An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans, which is kind of probably the first big anti-slavery book.”
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