Dacre Stoker

The people, places, research, and ideas that fed one of the most famous novels ever written.

I'm joined today, of course, by Dacre Stoker, Bram's great-grandnephew, author and researcher.

Dacre, welcome back.

Thank you, Iris.

Powers of Darkness is an original production of Or Whatever Movies.

The show is created, produced, and hosted by me, Iris Ichishta.

by Dacre Stoker, co-producer and host.

Edited by Wesley Ichishta.

I, I, uh, we were talking before the program.

I, I told you, you know, that, uh, Dacre Stoker is a, a, a big, um, a, a big friend of the program, and he does t- tours over to Romania.

And even he kind of...

You know, there, there's a castle over there that they take you over to that, um, they call it Dracula's Castle, although it is not the direct castle that is mentioned in either the movies-

Is it? So you're lending fame and credibility to your project.

Which one? do you send on camera on the Dracula Tour with Dacre Stoker?

Bradley Cooper takes his mom to award shows.

Like, he knows moms.

Which do I take to the Dracula Tour?

No, which one you're producing it.

This person is on camera with Dacre Stoker walking in his great-granduncle's footsteps.

Oh, Bradley Cooper.

Yes, this is getting messy.

I've gotten a couple emails from friends and stuff and like, you know, I've got Dracul out there with Dacre Stoker, you know, so we've got two authors and that was published by Putnam.

So, you know, he's trying to figure out how to make that work.

I went into Claude and just said, hey, what J.D. Barker books were you trained on? And it gave me this laundry list of titles and like four of them weren't even mine.

but that

author and i did announce this already so this isn't the exclusive part but that author is taker stoker from taker if people watching, listening, don't know Dacre yet or know the name, but they think it sounds familiar, it's because Dacre Stoker is the great-grand-nephew of no less than Bram Stoker.

And Dacre is now the world's preeminent authority on his great-granduncle, Bram.

There's nobody in the world who knows Bram Stoker better.