theconversation.com/how-londons-1838-great-stink-created-the-modern-vampire-295391 How London’s 1838 ‘great stink’ created the modern vampire
A Leeds exhibition explores how Victorian fears of cholera, miasma and foreigners shaped the vampire in Stoker's Dracula and Murnau's Nosferatu, drawing on the 1838 'great stink', Punch cartoons and Stoker's mother's account of the Sligo cholera outbreak.
