Reader Rendezvous Adult Book Club at Peel Museum

October Discussion of Dracula by Bram Stoker

Please join us each month at a new location for book club - The Peel Museum!  Each month, we will discuss books of the Victorian/Gothic genre and the books will be available at BPL's front desk while supplies last!  Even though book starts at 6P, please plan on arriving a bit early to enjoy a private tour of the grounds or museum.  Tours will start at 5P and continue until book club starts.  If the weather is nice, we may even enjoy the lovely gardens on the Museum grounds for our discussion.

Book Summary:

During a business visit to Count Dracula's castle in Transylvania, a young English solicitor finds himself at the center of a series of horrifying incidents. Jonathan Harker is attacked by three phantom women, observes the Count's transformation from human to bat form, and discovers puncture wounds on his own neck that seem to have been made by teeth. Harker returns home upon his escape from Dracula's grim fortress, but a friend's strange malady — involving sleepwalking, inexplicable blood loss, and mysterious throat wounds — initiates a frantic vampire hunt. The popularity of Bram Stoker's 1897 horror romance is as deathless as any vampire. Its supernatural appeal has spawned a host of film and stage adaptations, and more than a century after its initial publication, it continues to hold readers spellbound.