Something in the Blood

A shorter version of chapter 1 originally appeared in Bram Stoker: Centenary Essays, published by Four Courts Press, Dublin. Copyright © 2014 by David J. Skal. All rights reserved. A short section of chapter 4 first appeared in The Green Book: Writings on Irish Gothic, Supernatural and Fantastic Literature, published by Swan River Press, Dublin (Autumn 2015). Copyright © 2015 by David J. Skal. All rights reserved. Selected passages in chapter 6 expand on material first published in Screams of Reason: Mad Science and Modern Culture, published by W. W. Norton & Company, New York and London. Copyright © 1997 by David J. Skal. All rights reserved. Brief sections of chapter 11 are excerpted from the author’s essay “Dracula: Seen and Unseen,” originally published in Dracula in Visual Media, published by McFarland & Company, Jefferson, North Carolina, and London. Copyright © 2010 by David J. Skal. All rights reserved.

Drawing of Frank Langella as Dracula © The Al Hirschfeld Foundation.
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