Dare to enter our Festival Crypt…

Step beyond the veil and into our Festival Crypt—a trove of eerie delights from festivals past. Here you’ll find haunting podcasts, videos, at home crafts for kids and immersive online experiences that continue to whisper from the digital beyond.

Whether you’re curled up in your crypt or prowling by candlelight, these creations are yours to revisit… if you dare.

Gibbet Hill

In 2024, we worked with the Rotunda Foundation to bring the story of Gibbet Hill, the long lost story by Bram Stoker, to a global audience. On Saturday 26th October 2024, the festival presented a public event in the Pillar Room at the Rotunda Hospital with Miriam O’Callaghan interviewing Brian Cleary, Paul Murray (Stoker’s pre-eminent biographer) and visual artist Paul McKinley about Brian’s incredible find, the fascinating and heartwarming story behind it, and what it means for the legacy of Bram Stoker.

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Macnas at Home

In 2020, we Macnas, brought their magic right into people’s homes in a series of videos filmed in Galway surrounded by Macnas’s signature creations. These videos are still available to watch on YouTube and can be used a guide for creating a parade in your home at any time of year!

Macnas invite dreamers of every age, from 0 -100, to use the wonder of their imaginations to bring to life their own Macnas story at home. Macnas are master storytellers known for inspiring and engaging audiences with big, bold, visual shows and world-class theatrical experiences.

Podcasts by Donal Fallon

Donal Fallon, social historian and host of the hugely popular Three Castles Burning podcast, has recorded a number of special episodes of the podcast for Dublin City Council Bram Stoker Festival. Listen below to some of the highlights from previous years.

Warmbloods

Warmbloods and Immortality is a self-guided, darkly comedic tour of the National Gallery of Ireland, from two lady-like members of Dublin’s vampire community, Anne and Winifred. Your guides regret that they cannot be with you in person, but still promise to whisper in your ear and lead you astray in visions of exposed flesh, murder, darkened rooms, storms and a cruel-to-be-kind dissection of your ‘warmblood’ mortal nonsense and obsession with immortality. This audio-tour is available to download or stream

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The RTÉ Culture Bram Stoker Hub

The RTÉ Culture Bram Stoker Hub, featuring exclusive content about all things Stoker, is still live! There are lots of articles, videos, podcasts and more to enjoy at home, including a newly commissioned radio drama, an archive production of Dracula by the RTÉ Players, interviews with celebrated historians and experts and lots of audio treats.

RTE Culture Bram Stoker Hub

FANGS Podcast

Liam Geraghty sinks his teeth into the legacy that Bram Stoker left pop culture in the podcast series FANGS. From film to animation and from music to puppets, this five episode series features guests such as Bram’s great-grand nephew Dacre Stoker; Anne Marie Pace, author of Vampirina Ballerina; Charlaine Harris, author of Sookie The Southern Vampire Mysteries book series (adapted by HBO as True Blood); Una Woods, author and illustrator of Have You Seen the Dublin Vampire? and Norman Stiles the creator of Count Von Count on Sesame Street.

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Talking History Podcast

In 2024, at the Supreme Court at the Four Courts we presented a special recording of Newstalk’s Talking History podcast: Talking History – Petty Sessions: Weird and Wonderful Court Cases from Victorian Ireland. Hosted by Dr. Patrick Geoghegan, with guests Paul Kelly, President of the District Court, Zoe Reid, Keeper at The National Archives of Ireland and Professor Jarlath Killeen, Head of the School of English, Trinity College Dublin. The panel delvedinto the weird, wonderful and fascinating tales from the Petty Sessions of the 19th century and how they help us understand the Ireland of Bram Stoker’s time as well as the author himself.

Motherfocloir Podcast

The Motherfoclóir Podcast was resurrected for one afternoon in October 2022 to discuss the translation of Dracula into Irish by Seán Ó Cuirreáin. In this recording, host Darach is joined by Peadar and Siún as they consider the different motives of the politicians who commissioned the translation and the writer asked to carry out the work.