6.090 minSeason 1 • Episode 3
LatestCount Dracula has made it to England —a new world pulsing with fresh blood— and lays his plans to spread his foul vampire contagion. But why does he set his sights on the seemingly ordinary Lucy Westenra?
Transylvania, 1897. The blood-drinking Count Dracula is drawing his plans against Victorian London. And be warned: the dead travel fast.
Acting
Claes Bang's smug, seductive, utterly hilarious Dracula.
Writing
Episode 1's epistolary structure is genuinely brilliant.
Production
That ship. You know the one. Nightmare fuel.
Creators
Mark Gatiss, Claes Bang, Steven Moffat
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Demeter episode was filmed on an actual decommissioned naval ship that the crew found genuinely haunted.
Gatiss and Moffat deliberately structured each episode as a different horror subgenre: haunted house, monster movie, then sci-fi chamber piece.
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