’Salem’s Lot is not only one of my favourite Stephen King books, it’s one of my favourite vampire books. The characters are deeply sympathetic and well-rounded, the pacing is tight, the atmosphere is Pervasive Dread ™, and the vampires are proper vampires.

Literature and media as a whole often filters personal and societal anxieties (such as the Other) through particular lenses, and what better lens than horror? Especially vampires, which have symbolised so many things over the centuries…

Dracula is like Frankenstein or Jekyll and Hyde – everyone knows the main beats, so the real meat of the story gets twisted or ignored. I want an adaptation of Dracula that takes it as seriously as the Muppets and Sir Michael Caine took A Christmas Carol.