Escape from Castle Dracula

the many faces of Christopher Lee

Sep 28, 2025

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File:The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959) trailer - Sir Henry Baskerville (cropped).png — Christopher Lee as Sir Henry Baskerville in *The Hound of the Baskervilles* (1959). United Artists, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

ONE EVENING in 1958 two teenage girls were on their way home from the local cinema. They had been to see the film Dracula starring Christopher Lee, and had been comprehensively terrified. The treelined road was dark, and…

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