Dracula - RTÉ

All Saint's Day/All Witches' Sabbat is the jewel in the Bram Stoker festival crown as we creep into Dead Man's Month. The late P.J. O'Connor's 1960s armchair-plus-antimacassars take on the Transylvanian count in Tinahely romps gorgeously with the grim original, and there's a suitably sepulchral performance by Tom Studley as a prince of darkness.

Vampirella, an erotic take on a neurotic tale by a frisky feminist, drinks from a different chalice than its lethal Victorian predecessor, mixing the wines of bloodlust, thirst, and libido, in a sumptuous skit. With Cathryn Brennan as Vampirella, David Heap as Jonathan Harker, and Aiden Grennell as Count Dracula.

The latest new writing in our 'Long Stort short' series comes from Peter Dunne, performed by Margaret McAuliffe. A perfectly macabre fiction of close encounters with the undead. Produced by Kevin Reynolds.

A special Book on One recording of 'Dracula' by Bram Stoker, read by the late Aiden Grennell, in a 1999 production by Séamus Hosey. Re-broadcast in 2012.

Vampirella, an erotic take on a neurotic tale by a frisky feminist, drinks from a different chalice than its lethal Victorian predecessor, mixing the wines of bloodlust, thirst, and libido, in a sumptuous skit. With Cathryn Brennan as Vampirella, David Heap as Jonathan Harker, and Aiden Grennell as Count Dracula.