Bram Stoker: Author of Dracula

Neil R Storey

Bram Stoker: Author of Dracula
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
30 August 2023
Pages
256
ISBN
9781399071079

Bram Stoker: Author of Dracula

Neil R Storey

Bram Stoker: Author of Dracula is an affectionate and revealing biography of the man who created the vampire novel that would define the genre and lead to a new age in Gothic horror literature. Based on decades of painstaking research in libraries, museums, and university archives and privileged access to private collections on both sides of the Atlantic, the private letters of Bram and the reminiscences of those who knew him not only shed new light on Stoker's ancestry, his life, loves and friendships they also reveal more about the places and people who inspired him and how he researched and wrote his books. Bram wrote numerous articles, short stories and poetry for newspapers and magazines, he had a total of eleven novels and two collections of short stories published in his lifetime, but he would only become known for one of them - Dracula. Tragically, he did not live long enough to see it as a huge success. In his heyday as Acting Manager for Sir Henry Irving at the Lyceum Theatre in the West End of London, Bram was a well-known figure in a golden age of British theatre. He was a big-framed, ebullient, genial, gentleman, with red hair and beard, who never lost his soft Irish brogue, was blessed with wit, and a host of entertaining stories fit for every occasion. Described as having the paw of Hercules and the smile of Machiavelli, above all he knew what it meant to be a loyal friend. AUTHOR: Neil R. Storey is an award-winning historian with a life-long interest in Dracula. He is recognised internationally as a leading expert on Bram Stoker and has assembled one of the finest collections of Bram Stoker first editions, letters, and memorabilia in private hands. Known for his ground-breaking research, Neil has a canon of over fifty books. He guest lectures for both academic and social audiences across Britain and around the world and frequently appears as guest expert on factual television and radio programmes. 80 b/w illustrations

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