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Ulrike Wyche, head of the 'Dracula-Museum', looks at the first edition of the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker from 1897. Alamy Stock Photo

Have you read Bram Stoker's Dracula?

The gothic horror novel was originally published in 1897.

THE ANNUAL BRAM Stoker festival will kick off this weekend in Dublin. 

Bram Stoker is renowned for creating Count Dracula, one of the most celebrated villains of literature and cinema, but earlier this week it was announced that a long lost short story by the famed author had been found in Dublin after 130 years – and is to be unveiled to the public at the festival.  

The ghost story, titled Gibbet Hill, was found in the 1890 Christmas supplement of the Dublin Daily Express in the National Library of Ireland.

While Gibbet Hill hasn’t been released yet, we want to know if you’ve read Stoker’s most famous work, Dracula. 

So today we’re asking: Have you read Bram Stoker’s Dracula? 


Poll Results:

No (3217)
Yes (3149)

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    Mute Sean O'Dhubhghaill
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    Oct 22nd 2024, 10:25 AM

    Yes! Brilliant read!

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    Mute Alan
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    Oct 22nd 2024, 10:36 AM

    @Sean O’Dhubhghaill: nice pun lol

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    Mute Sean O'Dhubhghaill
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    Oct 22nd 2024, 10:42 AM

    @Alan:?

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    Mute Lance Taylor
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    Oct 22nd 2024, 11:03 AM

    @Sean O’Dhubhghaill: very funny indeed

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    Mute Sean O'Dhubhghaill
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    Oct 22nd 2024, 11:33 AM

    @Lance Taylor: Ah! I see!! LOL! And completely unplanned!

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    Oct 22nd 2024, 11:44 AM

    @Sean O’Dhubhghaill: the best!

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    Mute JB Software
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    Oct 22nd 2024, 10:29 AM

    One to sink your teeth into.

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    Mute Frank
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    Oct 22nd 2024, 2:02 PM

    @JB Software: The real Vlad was much worse than Bram Stokers fictional version. The Turks held him captive as a child. Whatever they did seems to have turned him into a monster.

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    Mute Seamus Enright
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    Oct 22nd 2024, 3:33 PM

    @Frank: The impaling was truly horrific, I only found out recently about the time he had the Sultan’s emissaries’ turbans nailed into their heads.

    I found out that Dracul was a title he inherited from his father who was inducted into the Bavarian order of the Dragon for his efforts to fight the Turks.

    The German word “Dracul” sounds more like “demon” in Romanian but he embraced this.

    Then when his son attacked the predominantly German cities that are now known as Brasov and Sibiu, he became a hate figure in Germany where the printing press was being developed and stories of his legendary cruelty were among the first to be circulated.

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    Oct 22nd 2024, 11:49 AM

    Definitely worth reading. For anyone that hasn’t read it, I always describe it as similar to a modern ‘found footage’ movie. It’s not written as a normal novel but a gathering of diary entries, newspaper cuttings and captains logs. A fantastic read!

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    Mute Aidan Boland
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    Oct 22nd 2024, 11:06 AM

    To plagiarise Ed Byrnes joke, “I watched the film with the subtitles on; so yes, I did read it.”

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    Oct 22nd 2024, 10:53 AM

    Read it in Irish. A great translation by a man called Seán Ó Cuirrín. The first edition is worth a bob or two if you find it lurking in a bookshop.

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    Oct 22nd 2024, 11:13 AM

    A great read! Pity about having to wait till 1987 for the book, still we had the movies to keep us going!

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    Oct 22nd 2024, 10:53 AM

    Dracula was published in 1987?????

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    Mute Lance Taylor
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    Oct 22nd 2024, 10:38 AM

    Read it every Halloween at midnight, a great tradition in my house.

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    Oct 22nd 2024, 10:58 AM

    @Lance Taylor: you read all in one go?

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    Oct 22nd 2024, 11:02 AM

    @Dermot Blaine: yes 3 hours usually

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    Oct 22nd 2024, 11:37 AM

    @Lance Taylor: my favourite Halloween read is the Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury. There’s also an animation of it, used to be on YouTube, not sure if it still is. Worth a, watch, kids would enjoy it

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    Oct 22nd 2024, 11:45 AM

    @Dermot Blaine: thanks ill try. I also love texas chainsaw massacre, have you seen it?

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    Oct 22nd 2024, 10:50 AM

    A fabulous book, a romantic story all about loving someone forever….

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    Oct 22nd 2024, 11:39 AM

    Yes, at least twice, but I think 3 times. Great book and an the book was an unconventional format for the time. I used to have the original Nesferatu on dvd, not sure where it went.

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    Oct 22nd 2024, 12:32 PM

    @Dermot Blaine: think it’s on prime at the moment if you have it. Must give it a spin myself. Released 1922.

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    Oct 22nd 2024, 10:52 AM

    First book I ever bought myself!

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    Oct 22nd 2024, 12:11 PM

    I never drink….wine.

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    Oct 22nd 2024, 12:21 PM

    Was The good Count one of the first boat people?

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    Mute Sean O'Dhubhghaill
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    Oct 22nd 2024, 1:13 PM

    Speaking of Dracula, this is the time to plant garlic!!

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    Oct 22nd 2024, 10:44 AM

    Perhaps, hard to say, really

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    Oct 23rd 2024, 12:21 AM

    Talking about blood sucking vampires. Dot forget to quiz your local fg/ FF politician about the case of the head hocho in the uhl hospital under investigation who has been given a top job by the hse investigators, blood curling fiction surely.

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