Dracul by Dacre Stoker And JD Barker Most avid readers will be aware of the famous novel, Dracula, penned by the Irish author, Bram Stoker and first published in 1897. But how many will know of what prompted Stoker to write his enduring tale? In Dracul, the great-grandnephew of Bram, Dacre Stoker, and his accomplice […]
Abraham ‘Bram’ Stoker, creator of Dracula, was born into an Irish Anglican family on 8th November, 1847, at the height of the Irish Famine. His father, also Abraham, was a senior civil servant in Dublin Castle and his mother an early feminist. During his childhood, Bram was stricken with a mystery illness which left him […]
