"The basic image of Stoker is that of a respectable Anglo-Irish gentleman who was very hard working and devoted to his boss," Skal said. "It's a stuffy cardboard cutout. It's not a person. "He was a ...

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 ...

Before publishing his vampire classic in 1897, the author was employed as a personal secretary at the Actors’ Benevolent Fund The imagination of Bram Stoker gave life to one of literature’s most ...

On 26 May 1897, a quiet Irish theatre manager published a yellow-bound Gothic horror novel about a Transylvanian count. 129 ...

Obsessed with the 1897 Gothic horror novel and its Hollywood permutations since childhood, the filmmaker now admits the author "was a bit of a hack." By Robert Eggers Touting its “terror, eroticism, ...

A long-lost story from Bram Stoker, the Irish author of one of the world's best known gothic horror stories 'Dracula', has been found in Dublin. In a remarkable discovery, the short story by Stoker, ...

Bram Stoker is today's Google Doodle for a reason: He's the author of Dracula, the book the inspired frightening, fun, and engaging works of vampire fiction, and Twilight. But there’s more to the ...

“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, ...