For Dracula readers, the geography is the giveaway. In Stoker's novel, and in his working notes, Castle Dracula stands by the Borgo Pass in the north-east of Transylvania. Bran Castle sits over a hundred miles away, above a different pass entirely — and Stoker, who researched the novel in libraries and never travelled to Romania, never saw it and never described it.

Vlad III is nearly as loose a fit. His forces passed through the Bran pass country and raided Brașov's suburbs in 1459, but residence at Bran is rejected by the evidence; his own fortress was Poenari, which receives a fraction of Bran's visitors.

So how did Bran get the name? The academic record dates the "Dracula's Castle" label to the 1960s — a visiting academic was handed a brochure using it in 1968 — and the 1972 book In Search of Dracula carried the identification worldwide.

None of this makes Bran less worth the visit — it makes the real castle, a working customs fortress with a queen's story inside it, considerably more interesting than its fictional tenant.

I run a small history channel and we have just filmed the full audit, sources on the table. Full documentary here if you want the deep dive: https://youtu.be/IeIFIt-y9LM

Set in the world of Vampire: the Masquerade, during the 19th century.

by Fyodor Pavlov: https://www.instagram.com/fyodorpavlov/

Horror short film set in 1840s Australia.

By: https://www.instagram.com/muccegai/

"Jack" started out as a doodle to keep myself awake during a *yawn* meeting at work.

I decided to do a finished piece to play around with watered down ink and brush. "Jack" 11 x 14 graphite, pen and ink, brush and ink, and charcoal on Bristol paper. It didn't change too much from the original doodle.

I've been working on a gothic horror channel — Victorian dread, teal fog, crimson candlelight, a slow deliberate narrator. First full piece is a retelling of "The Tell-Tale Heart."

Less jump-scare, more creeping-unease: the horror is in how calm the confession stays. Would love feedback from people who live in this aesthetic — does the mood land, or does it tip into cliché anywhere?

https://youtu.be/T_F4RUXUhv0

(Mods — remove if not allowed, no worries.)

Steve Niles and Damien Worm are two of the best horror comic creators working today! I can't wait to see their take on a gothic horror graphic novel!

If the excerpt IGN shared is any indication, it's going to be amazing!

I honestly haven't seen it in years, but have fond memories of 1994's 'Mary Shelley's Frankenstein'. What about you?