Bram Stoker and the Vampires of Moytura (English Edition)

Vampires of Moytura is an account of Bram Stoker's travels through the West of Ireland in 1876 while struggling to write his first book - The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland. The story is told through the eyes of an inept local civil servant who claims to have worked with Stoker on his research project. It details an encounter with an enchantress that the eventual author of Dracula met on the hills of Connemara. The author soon discovers that her love is the perfect cure for his severe writer's block. But he also discovers that the more he writes, the more he wastes away. In a land of rural superstition and political strife, the author finds himself embroiled in a world of bloodthirsty vampires, too. Delving into Celtic myth and the political climate of late 19th century Ireland, Vampires of Moytura unearths some of the Irish origins - both political and supernatural - behind the legends of the undead.