THE great grand nephew of Dracula author Bram Stokers will be in the city on Saturday to talk about his famous relative.
Dacre Stoker will meet an audience at Glasgow University Union and reveal new play Dracula the Truth, the first to be endorsed by the Bram Stoker estate, will have its world premiere in the city next year.
Glasgow is where many believe the author found the name for his insane character Renfield in the world famous book.
Renfield is an inmate in a lunatic asylum and suffers from delusions which compel him to eat living creatures.
Stoker stayed at the Central Hotel when he was in the city and walked up Renfield Street to present an award at Glasgow School of Art.
Dacre Stoker will also reveal a warning which was meant to be included at the start of Dracula was kept out to avoid mass panic.
It read: "I state again that this mysterious tragedy which is here described in my book Dracula is completely true in all external respects."
Dacre is the co-author of Dracula the Un-dead, the official family endorsed sequel to Dracula.
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