Horror sets sail with the scariest section of Dracula
Bram Stoker never visited Transylvania. His vision of the shadow-shrouded realm of Dracula was born in the British coastal town of Whitby: It was while living there in the 1890s that the author first read of the cruel history of Vlad Tepes – more fearfully known as Vlad the Impaler – in a copy of William Wilkinson’sthat he borrowed from the local library. Sit on the clifftops where he spent his days, and you’ll see the ruins of St. Mary’s Church, the inspiration behind Dracula’s Carfax Abbey.
Those few paragraphs stand as one of the greatest achievements in horror literature, a perfect descent into gothic terror. And so it’s very understandable that efforts to turn that slight selection into a movie have taken decades and a long list of writers and directors attempting to extend its elegant brevity into a full feature. Finally,
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