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The International Count Dracula Fan Club
| Fan Club | |
|---|---|
| Name: | The International Count Dracula Fan Club |
| Dates: | 1965-now |
| Founder(s): | Jeanne K. Youngson |
| Leadership: | |
| Country based in: | USA |
| Focus: | Dracula, Vlad the Impaler, Horror, monsters |
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The International Count Dracula Fan Club, previously named the Dracula Society, is a literary society dedicated to the study of Bram Stoker's book Dracula, the life of Vlad the Impaler and related topics of vampire and horror lore. It was founded in 1965 by Jeanne K. Youngson after a trip to Romania. With 5,000 memberbership, the club is the largest vampire society in the world.
By 1975 the society had headquarters in the UK and the USA. It held gala club dinners in London and more informal "wiener and wine" parties in the New York City penthouse office. In 1978, the club moved its British headquarters to a second office in New York City located in a landmark building in New York's historic Greenwich Village.
Club's activities:
- disseminating information
- issuing newsletters and books to members
- movie showings
- travels
- meetings
- selling vampire memorabilia and artifacts
The International Count Dracula Fan Club maintains a large research library, opened in 1970, which includes books on vampires and of the horror genre. It provides a wide range of services for its members including assistance in locating hard-to-find books and helping authors working on books about Count Dracula or vampirism. The library contains approximately 24,000 volumes, with subjects ranging from astrology to zymosis. It is considered one of the world's major research libraries in the fields of vampirism and lycanthropy.
The club operates the Count Dracula Fan Club Museum, opened in 1990.
The club is organized into a number of divisions:
- The Count Dracula Fan Club Research Library (see above)
- Research Referral Centre (assists members to locate information about vampires and vampirism)
- Dracula Press (publishes vampire poetry, fiction, and scholarship)
- Vampire Bookshop (distributes Dracula Press publications)
- Booksearch Service (paperback fiction)
- Moldavian Marketplace (articles of special interest to Dracula and vampire fans)
- Dracula World Enterprises
- Vampire Institute
- Vampire Pen Friends Network
- Bram Stoker Memorial Association
- Vampires Are Us (the junior division for the members younger than 16)
- Werewolf in Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy
- International Frankenstein Society
The club publishes four newsletters: The Dracula News-Journal, Bites & Pieces, Leterzine, and Undead Undulations.