Horror stories from the Royal Mail

Royal Mail stamps featuring Dracula and Frankenstein's monster will be unveiled this week at Britain's biggest International Stamp Show. The stamps form part of the Tales of Terror series designed to commemorate horror down the ages and will go on show at Wembley Exhibition Centre in London from Thursday.

They will be issued on 13 May, to mark the bicentenary of Frankenstein and his monster's inventor, author Mary Shelley. This year is also the centenary of Bram Stoker writing Dracul