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Abraham Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish author who wrote the 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula.During his life, he was better known as the personal assistant of actor Sir Henry Irving and business manager of the West End's Lyceum Theatre, which Irving owned.
Bram Stoker's novel takes the form of an epistolary tale, in which Count Dracula's characteristics, powers, abilities, and weaknesses are narrated by multiple narrators, from different perspectives. [15] Count Dracula is an undead, centuries-old vampire, and a Transylvanian nobleman who claims to be a Székely descended from Attila the Hun. [16]
Abraham Van Helsing was also portrayed in The Tomb of Dracula Marvel Comics series, which was based on the characters of Bram Stoker's novel including his great-granddaughter Rachel Van Helsing. In the Marvel Comics miniseries X-Men: Apocalypse vs. Dracula , Van Helsing joins forces with the immortal mutant Apocalypse and his worshipers, Clan ...
A short story by Bram Stoker, the legendary author of "Dracula," has been unearthed by a lifelong enthusiast in Dublin who stumbled upon the work while browsing in a library archive.
In 1885, Stoker returned to Dublin, where many of her children lived. At the end of her life, as Charlotte's eyesight failed, she feared going blind and hoped to die first. [3] Accounts of Charlotte Stoker's date of death and place of burial vary. Some claim 1901, while others 1902. She was either buried at Mount Jerome Cemetery or Saint Michan ...
The Brides of Dracula are fictional characters in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula.They are three seductive vampire "sisters" who reside with Count Dracula in his castle in Transylvania, where they entice men with their beauty and charm, and then proceed to feed upon them.
That's no great revelation; with Robert Eggers's new take on Nosferatu becoming a hit at the box office, Dracula—first created by writer Bram Stoker in 1897—is fresh on people's minds, and ...
Florence Balcombe (17 July 1858 – 25 May 1937) was the wife and literary executor of Bram Stoker. She is remembered for her legal dispute with the makers of Nosferatu , an unauthorized film based on her husband's novel Dracula .