Ecclesiastes 1:9 (NIV): “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.”
The video below divulges the two major influences other than Dracula that inspired my reimagining of Bram Stoker’s seminal vampire novel. But before you play it, can you guess which pair of classics, when their stories are combined and interwoven, tell the tale of a young, naive, closeted gay Englishman coming to terms with his true nature while falling in love with an imposing, wealthy, vengeful foreign count? If so, let us see if you guessed right.

