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Abraham "Bram" 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.
Stoker's notes illuminate much about earlier iterations of the novel. For instance, they indicate that the novel's vampire was intended to be a Count, even before he was given the name Dracula. [43] Stoker likely found the name Dracula in Whitby's public library while holidaying there with his wife and son in 1880. [39]
Shakespearean actor and friend of Stoker's Sir Henry Irving is widely considered to be a real-life inspiration for the character of Dracula. Stoker came across the name Dracula in his reading on Romanian history, and chose this to replace the name (Count Wampyr) that he had originally intended to
Thanks to "Dracula," Stoker "had a massive impact on popular culture, but is under-appreciated," Cleary told AFP in the Casino at Marino, an opulent 18th-century building near the writer's ...
Bram Stoker. Bram Stoker was born on 8 November 1847, in Dublin, Ireland.He was brought up in a Protestant middle-class household, and was a sickly child. [1] [2] However, Stoker eventually grew out of his illnesses and attended Trinity College, where he studied science and mathematics.
Bram Stoker’s "Count Dracula" remains the most enduring and in 1992, the book was made into a film starring Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves. “The Lost Boys” is another cult classic.
Snowbound: The Record of a Theatrical Touring Party (1908) is a collection of short stories by Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula.Set in rural Scotland, where a party of travelling actors are trapped in the snow telling stories to each other to pass the time, the book is influenced by Stoker's years in the service of Sir Henry Irving.
"Gibbet Hill" is an 1890 short story by Bram Stoker first published in a Christmas supplement of the Daily Express Dublin Edition. [1]The story was unknown to even Stoker biographers and literary scholars until October 2024, when it was uncovered by Brian Cleary, an amateur researcher and Stoker enthusiast [1] [2] at the National Library of Ireland.