bram stoker

     

Abraham "Bram" Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish writer of novels an short stories, who is best known today for his 1897 horror novel Dracula. During his lifetime, he was better known for being the personal assistant of the actor Sir Henry Irving and the business manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London, which Irving owned.

Trivia about bram stoker

  • William Wilkinson's "An Account of the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia" inspired this author's most famous novel
  • Once a drama critic in his native Dublin, he toured the U.S. as an actor's manager, but never visited Romania
  • Few have heard of his first novel, "The Snake's Pass", but everyone knows his "Dracula"
  • His first novel, "The Snake's Pass", was published in 1890, 7 years before "Dracula"
  • "The Lair of the White Worm" & "Dracula" were written by this Dubliner
  • His 1904 horror novel "The Jewel of Seven Stars" is much less famous than his "Dracula"
  • One biography of this author was called "The Man Who Wrote Dracula", which lacks a certain bite
  • "The Lady Of The Shroud","The Mystery Of The Sea","Dracula"
  • We imagine that before writing "Dracula" he worked way below deck on a steamer
  • Appropriately, Richard Laymon's "The Traveling Vampire Show" won the horror award named for this 19th c. novelist

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