Uploaded January 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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Dacre Stoker, Great-grandnephew of Bram Stoker, reveals the torturous process in which Bram was forced to cut 30,000 words from his original Dracula manuscript, and how we can finally get to read the book in its intended format after 125 years of waiting.

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