"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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Bram Stoker is famous for writing “Dracula” much as John the Baptist is celebrated for anticipating the coming of Jesus Christ. Each can be said to have held a role crucial, albeit peripheral, to the ...

Brian Cleary, a clinical pharmacist in Dublin, was trawling through the archives at the National Library of Ireland a few years ago when he stumbled across something extraordinary: a virtually unknown ...

A short story by Bram Stoker, the legendary author of "Dracula", has been unearthed by a lifelong enthusiast in Dublin who stumbled upon the work while browsing in a library archive. Titled "Gibbet ...

“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 work by Bram Stoker, previously unknown to scholars, will be read and included in a book launched during Dublin’s annual Bram Stoker Festival. By Sarah Lyall Brian Cleary, a clinical pharmacist in ...

"Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, The Man Who Wrote "Dracula," by David J. Skal; Liveright (652 pages, $35) (Amazon) “Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, ...