St. Francis Area Schools

Published in 1897, Bram Stoker’s Gothic novel, Dracula,
launched an entire genre of literature and film about
vampires, those sinister figures who use their supernatural
powers to hunt humans and drink their blood. From the
comfort and safety of your armchair we will track Dracula
from the stone-cold crypt beneath St. Michan’s Church in
Dublin, to the magnificent ruin of Whitby Abbey in
England, to the storied castles of Romania once
frequented by Vlad Tepes, known by reputation as “Vlad
the Impaler,”