UNIVERSITY students reading Dracula have been given warnings — about spiders.
Woke professors have been mocked for alerting youngsters to the perils of creepy-crawlies in the classic 1897 horror novel.
Bram Stoker’s story follows neck-piercing vamp Count Dracula as he moves to England in search of young women’s blood.
The book — made into several films — contains references to an asylum inmate who eats spiders and insects.
The English department at the University of Greenwich in South East London reckons it is necessary to warn undergrads they may find it “disturbing”.
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They state it contains “violence, death, murder, child abduction and death, depictions of mental illness, misogyny, the supernatural, imprisonment, references to suicide, animal abuse, descriptions of spiders and other insects”.
Frank Furedi, Professor in Sociology at Kent University, told The Sun they were being “killjoys”.
He said: “A warning about spiders and insects says more about the trigger-warning merchants than the book itself. They want to put a warning on anything precisely designed and written to be a bit scary.”
Greenwich University said warnings were introduced as a result of “student requests” so they can “take them into account before encountering each text”.