Dracula’s Brethren

"All of a sudden in the midst of the stillness the iron lid of the coffin burst with a crash and the corpse rose up. It was more terrible than the first time. Its teeth clacked horribly against each other, its lips twitched convulsively, and incantations came from them in wild shrieks." In 1897, Bram Stoker's iconic *Dracula* redefined the horror genre and had a significant impact on the image of the vampire in popular culture. But encounters with the undead were nothing new: they had electrified readers of Gothic fiction since even before Victorian times. *Dracula's Brethren* is a tr...