Dracula returns: Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat on their new BBC series – The Times

The makers of Sherlock tell Andrew Billen why they cast the hot Dane Claes Bang as the Transylvanian count with psychosexual issues

The Times,December 27 2019, 6:00pm

It begins in March 1890 with a part-time author feasting on too much crab flesh at a London restaurant. That night Abraham Bram Stoker, whose day job is helping to run the Lyceum Theatre, suffers a wettish nightmare involving his seduction by three vampish brides. Their sexual ministrations are interrupted by an imperious foreign aristocrat who enters and declares, in words that have left much room for subsequent psychosexual interpretation: This man belongs to me. Seven years research into eastern European folklore later, Stoker gives the world a novel called Dracula.

It begins with Jonathan, a junior solicitor from the West Country, travelling to Romania to seal a property deal with a Transylvanian count who is neither as alive as Jonathan might have expected, nor

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