Bio
Bram Stoker was an Irish novelist and theatre manager whose dark imagination and careful research produced Dracula, an epistolary masterpiece that reshaped vampire fiction and earned him the reputation as the "father of vampire fiction." He published a dozen horror and mystery novels and novellas—including The Jewel of Seven Stars, The Lair of the White Worm and The Mystery of the Sea—often mining his experiences as business manager of Henry Irving’s Lyceum Theatre and travels to places like Whitby and Cruden Bay for atmospheric detail. Dracula’s layered realism, told through journals, letters and clippings, and the indelible figure of Count Dracula inspired hundreds of stage, film and literary adaptations, fundamentally altering modern portrayals of the vampire. Stoker’s blend of Gothic melodrama, scientific curiosity and theatrical flair left a lasting legacy that continues to haunt and influence writers, filmmakers and popular culture.
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