THE DEFINITIVE VAMPIRE STORY with extra material on this history, cult and defence against vampires
Abraham 'Bram' Stoker was born in Dublin on 8 November 1847. He graduated in Mathematics from Trinity College, Dublin in 1867 and then worked as a civil servant. In 1878 he married Florence Balcombe. He later moved to London and became business manager of his friend Henry Irving's Lyceum Theatre. He wrote several sensational novels including novels The Snake's Pass (1890), Dracula (1897), The Jewel of Seven Stars (1903), and The Lair of the White Worm (1911). Bram Stoker died on 20 April 1912.
"An exercise in masculine anxiety and nationalist paranoia,
Stoker's novel is filled with scenes that are staggeringly lurid
and perverse... The one in Highgate cemetery, where Arthur and Van
Helsing drive a stake through the writhing body of the vampirised
Lucy Westenra, is my favourite"
*Sarah Waters*
"It is splendid. No book since Mrs. Shelley's Frankenstein or
indeed any other at all has come near yours in originality, or
terror"
*Bram Stoker’s Mother*
"Dracula is the daddy of all vampires"
*Daily Express*
"Bram Stoker's Dracula remains central to contemporary vampire
myths"
*The Times*
"The ultimate monster"
*Mirror*
"An exercise in masculine anxiety and nationalist paranoia,
Stoker's novel is filled with scenes that are staggeringly lurid
and perverse... The one in Highgate cemetery, where Arthur and Van
Helsing drive a stake through the writhing body of the vampirised
Lucy Westenra, is my favourite" -- Sarah Waters
"It is splendid. No book since Mrs. Shelley's Frankenstein or
indeed any other at all has come near yours in originality, or
terror" -- Bram Stoker's Mother
"Dracula is the daddy of all vampires" * Daily Express *
"Bram Stoker's Dracula remains central to contemporary vampire
myths" * The Times *
"The ultimate monster" * Mirror *
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