Diary of a Vampire: The Legacy of Bram Stoker

In one particularly poignant passage in Bram Stoker's timeless horror novel Dracula, his titular character muses, "To die, to be really dead, that would be glorious." But what message was Stoker attempting to get across with this morbidly fascinating quote? In this documentary, filmmakers investigate Stoker's own life, as well as the lives of his family, friends, and colleagues, in order to better understand the motivations and influences behind one of the darkest and most influential novels ever published. By exploring the mind of an author who wasn't afraid to delve into the darkest recesses of his own imagination, the filmmakers uncover how what appears on the surface to be a simple horror story is, in fact, anything but.