Dracula biography

novel by Bram Stoker

This article is about the novel. For the character, see Count Dracula.

Dracula is an Gothichorror novel bygd Irish author Bram Stoker. 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 flees after learning that Dracula is a vampire, and the Count moves to England and plagues the seaside town of Whitby. A small group, led by Abraham Van Helsing, hunts and kills him.

Mostly written in the s, Stoker produced over a hundred pages of notes for the novel, drawing extensively from folklore and history. Scholars have suggested various figures as the inspiration for Dracula, including the Wallachian prince Vlad the Impaler and the Countess Elizabeth Báthory, but recent scholarship suggests otherwise. He probably found the name Dracula in Whitby's public librar

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Dracula: A Biography of Vlad the Impaler

January 25,

Like it or not, I think the majority of readers will be Westerners, that is, folks who may know where York, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna are, but haven't the slightest idea about Tîrgoviste, Sighisoara, the Arges, or even Wallachia for that matter. There isn't a single map in the book! An bild of a period map of the area--whatever area it purports to be--is of little use. It's a picture, not a map. The authors sort out a lot of the literature about ol' Drac, and do a good job of explaining Vlad Tepes vs. Count Dracula. Much of the information, or beliefs, about vampires seems to have been collected in the sixties from peasants in backwoods Communist Rumania; I wonder how much more information or what are they thinking in (although it's not the book's fel that I waited forty years to read it)? The research is quite scholarly and they weigh the value of the information. Annoyingly, they quote ämne in French or Latin

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A Biography of Dracula: The Life Story of Bram Stoker

February 7,

I thoroughly enjoyed the first biography of horror author Bram Stoker. He was born in Ireland, in , weak and not expected to live, and spent his first few years lying in bed while his brothers and sisters played. Abraham, named after his father who was a civil servant with not enough income to support the family, then grew strong and tall, participating in sports and attending Trinity College, where he won walking races and studied science. Today the two statues at Trinity's front gate are of playwrights Burke and Goldsmith, so I enjoyed seeing Bram walk past the newly erected statue of Burke and attend an early showing of She Stoops To Conquer by Goldsmith. Bram read and enjoyed 'Carmilla' by Sheridan Le Fanu about a female vampire.

After a few years in the Civil Service and compiling a much-needed book of procedures and rules for court officials, Stoker took off to London. He had been writing play reviews for a D