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Matthew Gibson – Mr Stoker and the Vampires of the Lyceum
March 23, 2024 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Price: £10
Venue: The Hub at St Mary’s
If you are a fan of Dracula, join Bram Stoker scholar and writer, Matthew Gibson for a talk on all things Stoker and the origins of Dracula, alongside an insight into his own novel – Mr Stoker and the Vampires of the Lyceum – which is inspired by both!
Alive with intrigue, reversal and surprise, this tightly plotted Gothic crime thriller will keep the reader enthralled and confounded until its final shocking scene; indeed, until its very last word.
London, September 1888. A scream rings out from beneath the stage of the Lyceum Theatre…
A young ‘actress’ has been attacked, suffering peculiar bite wounds to her neck; an event that announces a series of strange vampiric happenings, and thrusts an unwitting Bram Stoker – hard-pressed acting manager of the Lyceum and aspiring, future author of Dracula – into the limelight.
Increasingly perplexed by his mercurial leading actor, Henry Irving, and Irving’s acclaimed leading lady, Ellen Terry – Stoker soon starts to suspect the worst and is forced to investigate. Then there is another attack – revealing a vicious Prussian baron, returned to London as a vampire seeking revenge…
Matthew Gibson is a leading scholar on Bram Stoker and the Gothic. Currently an Associate Professor at the University of Macau, he previously worked at the universities of Surrey and Hull, as well as in Poland and Bulgaria. Author of Dracula and the Eastern Question, and contributor to The Cambridge Companion to Dracula, Matthew curates Stoker resources for Oxford Bibliographies. Mr Stoker is his first novel.
