Without Dracula (1897), Bram Stoker would be forgotten. As it is, he is one of the least-known authors of one of the best-known books. Dracula was his masterpiece, and a writer only needs one of those to achieve immortality; but Stoker was obscured by...

Like a creature from his own imagination, Abraham (Bram) Stoker is frequently described by biographers as a red-haired giant, a man of prodigious strength and energy. During his lifetime Stokers name was most often linked to that of his famous partner,...

Abraham Stoker--better known to the world as Bram--created a century ago one of the most enduring figures of literary history. Patching together the works of earlier writers such as Sheridan Le Fanu, Guy de Maupassant, and Dr. John Polidori, along with...

"The Censorship of Stage Plays," Nineteenth Century & After, 66 (December 1909): 974-989. Though he was shy and sickly as a child, Bram Stoker grew up to be a man with many talents and interests, and a seemingly endless supply of energy. He was...

Though he was shy and sickly as a child, Bram Stoker grew up to be a man with many talents and interests, and a seemingly endless supply of energy. He was simultaneously an amateur athlete, a businessman, a journalist, and an impresario; he maintained...

Bram Stoker (1847-1912) is best known as the author of Dracula (1897), one of the most famous horror novels of all time. Abraham Stoker was born in Clontarf, Ireland in 1847. He was a sickly child, bedridden for much of his boyhood. As a student at...