The Strange RVA event at Fountain Bookstore featured author Dacre Stoker, Bram Stoker's great-grand-nephew. Dacre gave "Dracula" fans a look at Bram's original notes, maps, and drawings.

"We're dissecting my great-grand-uncle's novel, 'Dracula,'" Dacre said. "We're dissecting by looking at the notes that he used. We're looking at some of the sources he used, which helps me share with the group, but also helps them find for themselves the inspirations, the motivations, some of the key parts that were actually edited out of the novel. We're bringing that back to life."

Dacre, who has a background in teaching, spent 15 years connecting and poring over his ancestor's notes in what he said was like a "massive treasure hunt." Now, he travels around to pull back the curtain on the father of vam

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