Date / Time
- October 2, 2018
5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
This extended program will be the kick-off event for Stoker and Barker’s new Dracula-inspired prequel novel, Dracul, with vampiric festivities, a presentation by the authors and a book-signing.
This extended program will be the kick-off event for Stoker and Barker’s new Dracula-inspired prequel novel, Dracul, with vampiric festivities, a presentation by the authors and a book-signing.
The Bibliococktails series celebrates great literature and great libations.
The Rosenbach is home to Bram Stoker’s notes for Dracula, as well as a first editions of Polidori’s The Vampyre and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. So, join us in your costumed finest to celebrate Halloween as we welcome musical duo Charming Disaster and their eclectic repertoire of song. Charming Disaster will play short sets throughout the evening, as we also engage in some gothic fun.
Get up close and personal with Bram Stoker’s handwritten notes (character and chapter outlines, chronologies, and more!) for Dracula as Rosenbach staff explore what it takes to create an enduring monster.
When we think of Edgar Allan Poe, we think of his horror tales. His face is the icon of macabre fiction. And so when we see that he once wrote a tale about a mummy, we expect the full panoply of a monster story: Egyptian curses, the dead revivified, perhaps a monstrous beetle that devours …
Greetings from Frozen Philadelphia! After a snowy weekend and a lot of single-digit temperatures, we’re bundled up and back in the office. And as we shiver on our way to and from the museum, we’re thinking about some of our favorite authors, who shivered during an unseasonably cold summer 202 years ago. During the summer of …
On January 1, 1818, the London publishing house Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones published a book titled Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. The publication did not name its author, but the book had an preface written by Percy Bysshe Shelley and a dedication to writer and philosopher William Godwin, so some readers assumed that the …
On January 31, 2018, the Rosenbach will host a screening of the classic horror film Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, with Frederick R. Haas accompanying the movie on the organ at Macy’s. Conceived as a companion program to our Frankenstein and Dracula: Gothic Monsters, Modern Science, this spooky cinematic event will give us a chance …
Get up close and personal with Bram Stoker’s handwritten notes (character and chapter outlines, chronologies, and more!) for Dracula as Rosenbach staff explore what it takes to create an enduring monster.
In honor of the bicentennial of Frankenstein’s publication, we invited a historian of science, a literature scholar, and a biologist to a discussion moderated by a bioethicist. Their panel will explore the reasons that Mary Shelley’s vision has had such a profound effect on our imagination and on the way we structure our understanding of the ethical and social implications of biotechnology.