![]() ![]() ![]() Stoker wrote his first book of fiction 'Under the Sunset' which was published in 1881 and despite Dracula being his best-known work, he wrote 18 books during his life. On 4 December that year, he married Florence and the couple had their only son Noel in 1879. Shortly after that Stoker met and fell in love with actress Florence Balcombe.Īgainst his family's wishes, in 1878, Stoker moved to London and took a position as actor-manager with Henry Irving's Lyceum Theatre. ![]() In 1876 he met the famous actor Henry Irving and they soon became friends. A dull life in civil service provided the inspiration necessary to produce such master works as the classic horror tale 'Dracula' (1897) and numerous collections of horror short stories. He entered Trinity College Dublin in 1864 and while he studied he also worked as a civil servant, turning his hand to journalism and drama criticism on a part-time basis.Ī fan of the romantic movement in literature, Stoker corresponded with Walt Whitman and was a friend of Oscar Wilde. He was a sickly child and spent lots of time in bed being told horror stories by his mother. A look at the life and times of the master of macabre who took folk tales and legends and fashioned them into horror's greatest anti-hero: Dracula.Ībraham 'Bram' Stoker was born 8 November 1847 in Dublin, Ireland to a civil servant father and charity worker and writer mother. ![]()
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