S5 Ep2: Stoked for Stoker! Creating Dracula

Welcome, Dear Guest! We hope you're hungry for knowledge about getting others into Heaven by risking your own soul, because tonight, we have for you the complete telling of the life of a professional Sin Eater! Included in the telling are "scapegoats" and "whipping boys," with a ...  Show more

How very good of you to visit, dear guest! Do step into the Reading Room and warm your weary bones near the fire. Tonight, we have just the thing to take your mind off all the dreadfulness in the world- a ship, a ghost ship, The Octavius. Lost, then found, then lost again. And ar ...  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