S5 Ep2: Stoked for Stoker! Creating Dracula

Greetings, Dear Guests! We have for you this fine evening the opportunity to get to know some...unusual ladies. Okay. Hags. We'd like you to meet and take into your mushy, human heart a variety of horrific hags! We believe you'll find these unique women are often just misundersto ...  Show more

Welcome Back, Spooky Lovelies! Let us embark on a dreary journey to "The Land Down Under" (not that one) to enjoy an evening tale of mysteries, tragedies, and souls that linger long after their demise...wandering the grounds and trundling the winding staircases... of Haunted Aust ...  Show more

**For this HTW special feature, Sally interviews director Robert Eggers about his new historically inspired film, Nosferatu.** Winter, 1476. Vlad III is a prince in Wallachia, in present-day Romania. He is a violent man, so violent that he earns the nickname "Vlad the Impaler." H ...  Show more

Commonly associated with Count Dracula, the blood-sucking character in Bram Stoker’s quintessential novel, vampires continue to seduce. But where exactly did the vampire myth originate from? BBC Serbian’s Milica Radenković Jeremić has been researching the cultural history of vamp ...  Show more

In this chilling reimagining of the classic tale, a decrepit castle in the Carpathian Mountains hides a dark secret: Count Orlok, who thirsts for more than blood. When a young real estate agent journeys to the Count’s eerie domain, he unwittingly becomes the catalyst for Orlok’s ...  Show more

In honor of the spooky season, we present two monstrous origin stories --Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Bram Stoker’s Dracula. We know when these books were written in the 19th century. But what inspired the imaginations of the rebellious teenager Mary Shelley, or the beleaguere ...  Show more