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Dracula
440 pages, Hardcover
Published October 15, 2024
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Bram Stoker
2,725 books5,924 followersIrish-born Abraham Stoker, known as Bram, of Britain wrote the gothic horror novel
Dracula
(1897).
The feminist Charlotte Mathilda Blake Thornely Stoker at 15 Marino crescent, then as now called "the crescent," in Fairview, a coastal suburb of Dublin, Ireland, bore this third of seven children. The parents, members of church of Ireland, attended the parish church of Saint John the Baptist, located on Seafield road west in Clontarf with their baptized children.
Stoker, an invalid, started school at the age of seven years in 1854, when he made a complete and astounding recovery. Of this time, Stoker wrote, "I was naturally thoughtful, and the leisure of long illness gave opportunity for many thoughts which were fruitful according to their kind in later years."
After his recovery, he, a normal young man, even excelled as a university athlete at Trinity college, Dublin form 1864 to 1870 and graduated with honors in mathematics. He served as auditor of the college historical society and as president of the university philosophical society with his first paper on "Sensationalism in Fiction and Society."
In 1876, while employed as a civil servant in Dublin, Stoker wrote a non-fiction book (The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland, published 1879) and theatre reviews for The Dublin Mail, a newspaper partly owned by fellow horror writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu. His interest in theatre led to a lifelong friendship with the English actor Henry Irving. He also wrote stories, and in 1872 "The Crystal Cup" was published by the London Society, followed by "The Chain of Destiny" in four parts in The Shamrock.
In 1878 Stoker married Florence Balcombe, a celebrated beauty whose former suitor was Oscar Wilde. The couple moved to London, where Stoker became business manager (at first as acting-manager) of Irving's Lyceum Theatre, a post he held for 27 years. The collaboration with Irving was very important for Stoker and through him he became involved in London's high society, where he met, among other notables, James McNeil Whistler, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In the course of Irving's tours, Stoker got the chance to travel around the world.
The Stokers had one son, Irving Noel, who was born on December 31, 1879.
People cremated the body of Bram Stoker and placed his ashes placed in a display urn at Golders green crematorium. After death of Irving Noel Stoker in 1961, people added his ashes to that urn. Despite the original plan to keep ashes of his parents together, after death, people scattered ashes of Florence Stoker at the gardens of rest.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Stoker
The feminist Charlotte Mathilda Blake Thornely Stoker at 15 Marino crescent, then as now called "the crescent," in Fairview, a coastal suburb of Dublin, Ireland, bore this third of seven children. The parents, members of church of Ireland, attended the parish church of Saint John the Baptist, located on Seafield road west in Clontarf with their baptized children.
Stoker, an invalid, started school at the age of seven years in 1854, when he made a complete and astounding recovery. Of this time, Stoker wrote, "I was naturally thoughtful, and the leisure of long illness gave opportunity for many thoughts which were fruitful according to their kind in later years."
After his recovery, he, a normal young man, even excelled as a university athlete at Trinity college, Dublin form 1864 to 1870 and graduated with honors in mathematics. He served as auditor of the college historical society and as president of the university philosophical society with his first paper on "Sensationalism in Fiction and Society."
In 1876, while employed as a civil servant in Dublin, Stoker wrote a non-fiction book (The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland, published 1879) and theatre reviews for The Dublin Mail, a newspaper partly owned by fellow horror writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu. His interest in theatre led to a lifelong friendship with the English actor Henry Irving. He also wrote stories, and in 1872 "The Crystal Cup" was published by the London Society, followed by "The Chain of Destiny" in four parts in The Shamrock.
In 1878 Stoker married Florence Balcombe, a celebrated beauty whose former suitor was Oscar Wilde. The couple moved to London, where Stoker became business manager (at first as acting-manager) of Irving's Lyceum Theatre, a post he held for 27 years. The collaboration with Irving was very important for Stoker and through him he became involved in London's high society, where he met, among other notables, James McNeil Whistler, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In the course of Irving's tours, Stoker got the chance to travel around the world.
The Stokers had one son, Irving Noel, who was born on December 31, 1879.
People cremated the body of Bram Stoker and placed his ashes placed in a display urn at Golders green crematorium. After death of Irving Noel Stoker in 1961, people added his ashes to that urn. Despite the original plan to keep ashes of his parents together, after death, people scattered ashes of Florence Stoker at the gardens of rest.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Stoker
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February 2, 2026
Surprisingly to me this book was absolutely brilliant.
Many books that are foundational to genre and folk lore sometimes do not age well and are respected for their contributions to literature but not necessarily for their content.
This is not one of those books.
Dracula has something to say about society and duty that holds firm even today. The characters are endearing the atmosphere is chilling and eerie and the scope is epic.
Through journal entries we get great insight into our main characters and we get to understand what makes them tick, what causes them fear, and most endearingly how much they need each other.
The pledge they make to protect each other and to purge the world of Dracula’s evil is heartwarming in the same way that it is somber. They have been forced into this showdown by circumstance but choose to forge forwards for the sake of the beloved Mina Harker.
I could speak at length about most any of the characters but I want to highlight Mina. She is the character that most enraptures me (and the one that I have a crush on). She is empathetic not only for the party but for Dracula. She sees the quest not only as a way to save herself but to save his souls as well. She brings the team together and makes them stronger. She is the soul of this book.
I loved every minute of this book.
No part of it fell flat for me and I would highly recommend it to anyone that wants a taste of horror and vampires. A cold take for sure but one I am proud of. This book is brilliant and I have much respect for the mythology that it codified in pop culture for decades since.
Many books that are foundational to genre and folk lore sometimes do not age well and are respected for their contributions to literature but not necessarily for their content.
This is not one of those books.
Dracula has something to say about society and duty that holds firm even today. The characters are endearing the atmosphere is chilling and eerie and the scope is epic.
Through journal entries we get great insight into our main characters and we get to understand what makes them tick, what causes them fear, and most endearingly how much they need each other.
The pledge they make to protect each other and to purge the world of Dracula’s evil is heartwarming in the same way that it is somber. They have been forced into this showdown by circumstance but choose to forge forwards for the sake of the beloved Mina Harker.
I could speak at length about most any of the characters but I want to highlight Mina. She is the character that most enraptures me (and the one that I have a crush on). She is empathetic not only for the party but for Dracula. She sees the quest not only as a way to save herself but to save his souls as well. She brings the team together and makes them stronger. She is the soul of this book.
I loved every minute of this book.
No part of it fell flat for me and I would highly recommend it to anyone that wants a taste of horror and vampires. A cold take for sure but one I am proud of. This book is brilliant and I have much respect for the mythology that it codified in pop culture for decades since.
December 20, 2025
Dracula is a Gothic novel first published in 1897 that blends horror, mystery, and epistolary narration to tell the story of Count Dracula’s attempt to expand his undead influence from Transylvania to England. Told through diaries, letters, and other documents, the novel explores themes of fear, desire, modernity, and cultural anxiety, particularly around sexuality, science, and foreignness. While the plot concludes with Dracula’s destruction, the novel resists full explanatory closure, leaving deeper symbolic and psychological questions unresolved, one of the reasons it remains a foundational and enduring text in Gothic and horror literature. I don’t like horror books but this one is a classic worth reading.
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