Dracula Society

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Do you feel an affinity with the supernatural in literature? Is your spiritual home a cobwebby, half-ruined castle somewhere in eastern Europe? Do you curl up at night with a collection of vampire stories, or a volume by Poe, or Le Fanu? If you do, then the Dracula Society welcomes you. 

The society was founded in October 1973 and it caters for lovers of "the vampire and his kind" - werewolves, reanimated mummies, mad scientists and their creations, and all the other monsters spawned by the Gothic genre.

The Society was originally founded specifically to enable its members to travel to regions such as Transylvania, which had scarcely been touched by western tourism at the time of the Society's formation.

Now fifty years on, the Society's main emphasis is on its London-based meetings, which include guest speakers, discussions, quizzes, film and video screenings, and auctions.

It also still regularly organises group trips to places with Gothic and/or supernatural associations, both in the United Kingdom and elsewhere.

Since it is named after one of the most evocative titles in the whole genre, one of the most enduring and influential of Gothic novels, the Dracula Society naturally devotes a good deal of its attention to Dracula, the novel, and its author, Bram Stoker. However, the Society's field of interest embraces the entire Gothic literary genre, and incorporates, too, all stage and screen adaptations, and the sources of their inspiration in myth and folklore.

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1973

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