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Irish-born Abraham Stoker, known as Bram, of Britain wrote the gothic horror novel Dracula (1897). The feminist Charlotte Mathilda Blake Thornely Stoker at 15 Marino crescent, then as now called "the crescent," in Fairview, a coastal suburb of Dublin, Ireland, bore this third of seven children.
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1. Signature. Abraham "Bram" Stoker (8 November 1847–20 April 1912) was an Irish author who is best known for writing the 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula. During his lifetime, 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.
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May 30, 1983 · Bram Stoker is a master of the horror genre and excels at creating suspense and maintaining thrill. The narrative technique of making use of diaries, journals, news reports, and other methods of information storage and sharing lends a realistic and believable air to the story.
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- ‘The Lady of the Shroud’ Stoker’s eleventh novel and told in an epistolary form, ‘The Lady of the Shroud‘ is an adventure story about the heroics of a young man who unexpectedly finds himself the heir of a massive fortune accessible only on the condition that he spends a year at a castle in a remote country.
- ‘Jewel of the Seven Stars’ The ‘Jewel of Seven Stars’ was written in 1903. After ‘Dracula’ it is one of Stoker’s most popular and acclaimed novels. The novel was written as interest in egyptology soared around Europe.
- ‘The Lair of the White Worm’ Also known as ‘The Garden of Evil,’ ‘The Lair of the White Worm’ is Bram Stoker’s twelfth and final novel and was published in 1911 by William Rider and Son, Limited.
- ‘Mystery Of The Sea’ Often described as a political thriller, the ‘Mystery of the Sea,’ published in 1902, sees Stoker dabble into the politics of the Spanish-American war as well as the sixteenth-century war between England and Spain.
Dracula is a novel by Bram Stoker, published in 1897. An epistolary novel, the narrative is related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles. It has no single protagonist and opens with solicitor Jonathan Harker taking a business trip to stay at the castle of a Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula. Harker escapes the castle after discovering that Dracula is a vampire, and the ...
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Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula ‘ is a gothic horror story about a Vampire’s attempts to gain a foothold in England in order to find fresh blood and the attempts of a group of courageous individuals to stop him. It is the book most responsible for catapulting vampiric literature and media onto the top of public consciousness.
Count Dracula ( / ˈdrækjʊlə, - jə -/) is the title character of Bram Stoker 's 1897 gothic horror novel Dracula. He is considered the prototypical and archetypal vampire in subsequent works of fiction.
