remarkable grand-nephew of the seminal vampire novel discounts reports on research that suggested the gloomy count was based on a west country man,rather than his writingsBram Stoker’s descendant has rejected reports that claimed his ancestor’s most famous creation, Count Dracula, or hailed not from Transylvania but Devon.
Writer Andy Struthers told the Exeter Express and Echo final week about his theory that Stoker was inspired by the Exeter writer Sabine Baring-Gould’s texts Lycanthropy: the Study of Werewolves,and the vampire story Margery of Quether, adding: “People will be surprised and sometimes shocked by my findings, or as most of what they now hold actual will be proven to be false. It’s a bit like finding out who Father Christmas really is.” Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com