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24 November 2010

Reflecting on Dracula

DRACULA dust. “Does this class as fruitloopery or just insanity?” wonders Bob Sunman. By “this” he means the opportunity to purchase a sample of dust from Bran Castle in the Romanian province of Transylvania, home to Vlad the Impaler, inspiration for Count Dracula. To be more precise, the dust is said at draculadust.com (where else?) to come from the foot of the stairs at the castle’s main entrance, so there is, the vendors claim, “a 99.9 per cent chance that Dracula stepped on this land”.

Having just reread the book by Bram Stoker, Feedback recalls that in…

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