Bram Stoker’s Dracula inspired by writings of maverick Scotswoman
The nefarious thirst for human blood, a clove of garlic to ward off vampires, a stake through the heart as their optimum method of dispatch: these are the best-known marks of Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
But the gruesome details came not from Stoker’s own imagination but from the factual works of a maverick Scottish author, Emily Gerard, whose research into the folklore of
