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Podcast: Castle of Horror Podcast
Episode: Castle Talk: Laszlo Tamasfi on bringing back Dracula's Death the long-lost book (based on a long-lost movie)
Description: Tonight we’re chatting with Laszlo Tamasfi, publisher of a new translation of Dracula’s Death, a 1924 book with a very strange history.The first motion picture to ever feature the character of Dracula was Dracula's Death, a Hungarian silent film made in 1921. It was not based on Bram Stoker's novel, but rather it was an original story about a young woman, who encounters the famous vampire during her stay at a mental asylum.The movie, just like so many others from the silent film era, is considered lost. Luckily, a prose adaptation was published in 1924, which has...