This article reassesses the place of Dracula within a supposed Anglo-Irish Gothic tradition by stressing continuities between Stoker's portrayal of the vampire and the (auto)biographical writings of major Ascendancy figures, and more particularly Elizabeth Bowen's family memoir Bowen's Court. It qualifies the recent focus on Dracula's monstrous body as an allegorical site, and argues that the Irish subtext of the novel may be most palpable in more muted forms of psychological Gothic. It attempts to refine our definitions of Anglo-Irish Gothic, and constitutes a new intervention in the debate that has raged over Dracula's Irish identity.