Bram Stoker: Author of Dracula is an affectionate and revealing biography of the man who created the vampire novel that would define the genre and lead to a new age in Gothic horror literature.
Based on decades of painstaking research in libraries, museums, and university archives and privileged access to private collections on both sides of the Atlantic, the private letters of Bram and the reminiscences of those who knew him not only shed new light on Stoker's ancestry, his life, loves and friendships they also reveal more about the places and people who inspired him and how he researched and wrote his books. Bram wrote numerous articles, short stories and poetry for newspapers and magazines, he had a total of eleven novels and two collections of short stories published in his lifetime, but he would only become known for one of them – Dracula. Tragically, he did not live long enough to see it as a huge success.
In his heyday as Acting Manager for Sir Henry Irving at the Lyceum Theatre in the West End of London, Bram was a well-known figure in a golden age of British theater. He was a big-framed, ebullient, genial, gentleman, with red hair and beard, who never lost his soft Irish brogue, was blessed with wit, and a host of entertaining stories fit for every occasion. Described as having the paw of Hercules and the smile of Machiavelli, above all he knew what it meant to be a loyal friend.
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/houseofmysteryradio.
Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/houseofmysteryradio.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Robin Lloyd - Hidden Cargo
Lowell Cauffiel - Below the Line
Sam Wiebe - Sunset and Jericho
Jeff Guinn - Waco
Judy Penz Sheluk - Finding Your Path to Publication
Robert J. Crane - Shadows (The Girl in the Box Book 54)
David Darling - Edge of Time: A Time Travel Adventure Novel
Desmond P. Ryan - Death Before Coffee
Don Bentley - Forgotten War
Stuart Gibbon - Catching A Killer
Don Winslow - City of Dreams
Jess Landry - The Night Belongs to Us
Josh Weiss - Sunset Empire
David Baldacci - Simply Lies
Michael Frost Beckner - Muir's Gambit: A Spy Game Novel
Matt Cost - Velma Gone Awry
Gregg Hurwitz - The Last Orphan
Alisa Lynn Valdes - Hollow Beasts (Jodi Luna Book 1)
Michael Clark - Hell on High
Ben Monroe - The Seething
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
Finding Pattersby
The Psychic Elephant Radio Podcast
Museum of the Missing
Just So Stories
Anne of Green Gables
The Adventure Zone
Porfirio cadena el ojo de vidrio