Book is Better Book Club

Our “Book is Better” book club this month will be led by LBB friend of the shop, Zach. Each meeting includes a discussion about the book and a screening of the adaptation. This month, we're reading Dracula by Bram Stoker and we're watching Bram Stoker's Dracula starring Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves. Ticket includes 10% off a drink at the bar.

Bram Stoker's peerless tale of desperate battle against a powerful, ancient vampire.

When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula purchase a London house, he makes horrifying discoveries in his client's castle. Soon afterwards, disturbing incidents unfold in England: a ship runs aground on the shores of Whitby, its crew vanished; beautiful Lucy Westenra slowly succumbs to a mysterious, wasting illness, her blood drained away; and the lunatic Renfield raves about the imminent arrival of his 'master'. In the ensuing battle of wills between the sinister Count and a determined group of adversaries - led by the intrepid vampire hunter Abraham van Helsing - Bram Stoker created a masterpiece of the horror genre, probing into questions of identity, sanity and the dark corners of Victorian sexuality and desire.

For this completely updated edition, Maurice Hindle has revised his introduction, list of further reading and notes, and added two appendices: Stoker's essay on censorship and his interview with Winston Churchill, both published in 1908. Christopher Frayling's preface discusses the significance and the influences that contributed to his creation of the Dracula myth.

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Liz's Book Bar, 315 Smith Street, Brooklyn, United States