The Vampire is one of, if not, the most well-known monsters in all of horror cinema. From Nosferatu in 1922 to Universal’s Dracula series in the ‘30s and ‘40s, and from Hammer Horror’s cycle in the ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s, all the way up to BBC’s 2020 mini-series, Irishman Bram Stoker’s seminal novel Dracula has had nearly a century of influence on cinematic horror. But what influenced Stoker? One theory is that Stoker was inspired by the irish legend of the Abhratch, an old Irish bloodsucker in the tradition of the Dearg Due or the Néamh Mairbh.