Seattle Times: New biography explores the real-life Victorian horror behind Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’
Several years ago, I read the book “Dracula” for the first time, expecting that Bram Stoker’s 19th century fable of blood, lust and the undead would be a quaint echo of Dracula’s many screen ...
Irish Central: How Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” was linked to Sligo’s cholera outbreak
The St. Augustine Record: New biography explores the real-life Victorian horror behind Bram Stoker's 'Dracula'
“Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, The Man Who Wrote “Dracula’” by David J. Skal; Liveright (652 pages, $35) Several years ago, I read the book “Dracula” for the first time, ...
The Bram Stoker Society heard how Dublin-born Stoker's mother's tales of the 1832 cholera epidemic, which killed 1,500, affected her horror-writing son. A remarkable account of how Sligo has been ...