Mrs Bram Stoker’s recipe for “Dracula Salad” – a bit of an oxymoron? – published in CRUDEN RECIPES & WRINKLES (Cruden Parish Church, 1912), & contributed shortly after Bram Stoker’s death. Via Mike Shepherd on Facebook
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https://www.facebook.com/groups/scotlit/posts/10161485849160090/

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“[Mike] Shepherd… believes the author deliberately pinpointed Cruden Bay, north of Aberdeen—then called Port Erroll, a small fishing village with a sandy beach & a windswept cliff-top fort named Slains Castle—as a retreat where he could concentrate on his writing”

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/oct/09/cutting-his-teeth-how-bram-stoker-found-his-inner-dracula-in-scotland

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Cutting his teeth: how Bram Stoker found his inner Dracula in Scotland

Author’s method acting approach to writing terrified local people in Aberdeenshire as he perched on the rocks like a bat

The Guardian