In conjunction with a stage production of "Dracula: the Journal of Jonathan Harker", Bluebarn Theatre is presenting a series of community engagement events with Dacre Stoker, the great grand-nephew of Bram Stoker and the international best-selling co-author of Dracula the Un-Dead (2009), and Dracul (2018). In the Bluebarn Theatre lobby just before the evening's production, Dacre Stoker will discuss the inseparable connection between the historic Vlad Dracula III and fictional Count Dracula. Take a tour through both medieval and modern-day Romania investigating the fact and fiction surrounding Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula. Dacre is also the co-editor of The Lost Journal of Bram Stoker: The Dublin Years (2012). He has published Stoker on Stoker Dracula Revealed (2022) a companion book to his informative audio visual presentations. In 2022 Dacre and Robert Eighteen Bisang published Dracula Annotated for the 125th Anniversary, a culmination of years of research, this version includes many of the passages edited out of the final Dracula typescript, including the first three chapters and the original ending. Dacre has consulted and appeared in recent film documentaries about vampires in literature and popular culture. The Real Vampire Files (2010 History Channel), The Tillinghast Nightmare, (2014 Historical Haunts), Secrets of the Dead (2015 PBS), Mysteries at the Museum, (2017 Travel Channel) Legend Hunter (2019 Travel Channel) American Vampires (2022 Fox Nation).
