109. Dacre Stoker & JD Barker // Bram Stoker, Vampires & the Dracula Legacy
Happy Halloween or Samhain or Day of the Dead or whatever you may be celebrating this time of year.
And we have an apropos show for you this time around. Dacre Stoker and JD Barker are in the house. They are the co-authors of the recently released novel Dracul, the official Stoker-family endorsed prequel to the original Dracula story. Very cool, very excited to have them here for our annual Halloween episode.
As you will hear in the chat, Dacre is the great grand-nephew of Bram Stoker, the author of that original Dracula story. Dacre is a former teacher and athletics coach; he even coached for Canada during the Olympics. But he’s made the transition to full-time writer and speaker. He gives presentations about Bram and Dracula, takes folks on tours of sites related to the Dracula mythos as well as the real-life inspiration for the character, Vlad the Impaler. And, along with his wife, manages the Bram Stoker Estate.
JD is an international best-selling author whose work has been broadly described as suspense thrillers, often incorporating elements of horror, crime, mystery, science fiction and the supernatural. His first novel Forsaken was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for Best Debut Novel and won a handful of others including a New Apple Medalist Award. Any occult fans out there would definitely enjoy that novel. And that Bram Stoker nomination is what led to this Dracul collaboration.
So let’s close our eyes and hope that this vampire thing is just imagination, but something tells me sooner or later you’ll hear that creature creepin’ up behind. And when it does--well, no mere mortal can resist.
PATREON EXTENSION
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The importance of eyes and eye colors in Dracul and the work of James Joyce
The Hellfire Club’s inclusion in the story
Scrying as a scientific method of locating people
Bram’s view of the occult
The roots of traditional vampires and vampire tropes
Capturing the Victorian/Gothic aesthetic and atmosphere on the page
The pacing of the book mirroring the lure of the vampire
RESOURCES
Dracul on IndieBound: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780735219342
Dracul on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2Q2EZDF
Dacre’s website: http://dacrestoker.com/
Dacre on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dacrestoker
Dacre on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dacrestoker/
JD’s website: http://jdbarker.com/
JD on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/therealjdbarker
JD on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jdbarker
JD on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jdbarker_author/
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MUSIC
Vestron Vulture - “I Want to Be a Robot (Tribute to Giorgio Moroder)”: https://soundcloud.com/thevulturex/2-i-want-to-be-a-robot-tribute
Nightmare Before Christmas - “This Is Halloween (Ponzoo Trap Remix)”
Rezo - “Horror Music Mashup Remix - Halloween Special”
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