Monday the 12th
Bram Stoker Books
The Primrose Path (1875) , The Snake's Pass (1890) , The Watter's Mou' (1895) , The Shoulder of Shasta (1895) , Dracula (1897) , Miss Betty (1898) , The Mystery of the Sea (1902) , The Jewel of Seven Stars (1903) , The Man (AKA: The Gates of Life) (1905) , Lady Athlyne (1908) , Snowbound: The Record of a Theatrical Touring Party (1908) , The Lady of the Shroud (1909) , Lair of the White Worm (1911) , Under the Sunset (1881) , Under the Sunset , The Rose Prince , The Invisible Giant , The Shadow Builder , How 7 Went Mad , Lies and Lilies , The Castle of the King , The Wondrous Child , Dracula's Guest (1914)(Published posthumously by Florence Stoker) , Dracula's Guest , The Judge's House , The Gipsy Prophecy , The Coming of Abel Behenna , The Burial of the Rats , A Dream of Red Hands , Crooken Sands , The Secret of the Growing Gold , Bridal of Dead (alternative ending to The Jewel of Seven Stars) , Buried Treasures , The Chain of Destiny , The Crystal Cup , The Dualitists; or, The Death Doom of the Double Born , The Fate of Fenella , The Gombeen Man , In the Valley of the Shadow , The Man from Shorrox' , Midnight Tales , The Red Stockade , The Seer
Jonathan Harker's Journal
3 May. Bistritz. __Left Munich at 8:35 P. M, on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late. Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the streets. I feared to go very far from the station, as we had arrived late and would start as near the correct time as possible.
The impression I had was that we were leaving the West and entering the East; the most western of splendid bridges over the Danube, which is here of noble width and depth, took us among the traditions of Turkish rule.
- Dracula
Bram Stoker Literature Online
Dracula
Dracula's Guest
lair of the White Worm
Bram Stoker Links
Abraham "Bram" Stoker (1847-1912)
Site http://www.online-literature.com/stoker/
Bram Stoker was born near Dublin on November 8, 1847, the third of seven children. An unidentified illness kept him virtually bedridden until age seven. Although he remained shy and bookish, in his adolescence Bram Stoker was anything but sickly. Perhaps to make amends for his earlier frailty, he was by this time developing into a fine athlete. At Trinity College, Dublin, he would conquer his shyness and be named University Athlete.
Bram Stoker
Site http://www.classic-literature.co.uk/bram-stoker/
Although an invalid in early childhood he could not stand or walk until he was seven , Stoker outgrew his weakness to become an outstanding athlete and football (soccer) player at the University of Dublin. After 10 years in the civil service at Dublin Castle, during which he was also an unpaid drama critic for the Dublin Mail, he made the acquaintance of his idol, the actor Sir Henry Irving, and from 1878 until Irving's death 27 years later, he acted as his manager, writing as many as 50 letters a day for him and accompanying him on his American tours.
The Literary Gothic | Bram Stoker
Site http://www.litgothic.com/Authors/stoker.html
Irish-born writer, theater critic, and manager for the famed late-C19 actor Henry Irving, Stoker is of course best known as the author of Dracula, the definitive vampire story. Stoker wrote a number of other novels and short stories, several of which (The Jewel of Seven Stars and Lair of the White Worm, to mention just a couple of the novels) also have major supernaturalist elements.
Dublin - Bram Stoker
Site http://www.thebramstokerdraculaexperience.com/
The Bram Stoker Dracula Experience is a uniquely different, most interesting, brilliantly, entertaining, interactive, educational and very scary adventure based on the life of Bram Stoker his great vampire creation (Dracula) and horror in general.
Bram (Abraham) Stoker was born in Clontarf, Dublin in 1847. After a sickly childhood he grew up to take a degree at Trinity College Dublin and for a number of years worked as a civil servant at Dublin Castle. However he spent most of his working life in London as secretary to his great acting idol (Sir) Henry Irving and manager of Irving's Lyceum Theatre. Bram Stoker wrote the blood curdling spine chilling masterpiece of Gothic Horror DRACULA which was first published in 1897. The book has both eclipsed and immortalised Stoker himself. It has never been out of print, is the biggest selling novel ever written and has been translated into all the worlds major languages and many minor ones. It is now estimated that over 1,000 film have been inspired by the Dracula story and it has a huge and ongoing effect on the worlds of the cinema, the theatre, art and the performing arts in general as well as the literary world. Arguably it makes Bram Stoker Irelands greatest achiever. Bram Stoker died in London in 1912, survived by his wife Florence and only child Noel. In his native Clontarf he is commemorated by the annual Bram Stoker Summer School and the Bram Stoker cultural Heritage visitor centre.
Bram Stoker Information
Site http://www.geocities.com/psmcalduff/info.html
Bram (Abraham) Stoker was born November 8, 1847 in Dublin, Ireland. His father was a civil servant and his mother was a charity worker and writer. Stoker was a sickly child and spent a lot of time in bed. Growing up his mother told him a lot of horror stories. Stoker studied Math at Trinity College Dublin and he graduated in 1867. After graduation he became a civil servant. At this time, he also worked as a free lance journalist, a drama critic and editor of the "Evening Mail". In 1876 he met Sir Henry Irving, a famous actor. Stoker accepted a job as a personal secretary to Irving and went to England in 1878. Before he left Ireland he published his first book "The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland" in 1878. While working for Irving he met an aspiring actress named Florence Balcombe. They were married 1878 and had one son, Noel, born 1879. In England he also began writing a series of novels and short stories the first of which was "The Snake's Pass". Although best known for "Dracula", Stoker wrote eighteen books before he died in 1912. Stoker died at the age of 64 of exhaustion.
Bram Stoker Award
Site http://www.horror.org/stokers.htm
Each year, the Horror Writer's Association presents the Bram Stoker Awards for Superior Achievement, named in honor of Bram Stoker, author of the seminal horror work, Dracula. The Stoker Awards were instituted immediately after the organization's incorporation in 1987. While many members, including HWA's first President, Dean Koontz, had reservations about awards for writing -- since the point of HWA was for writers to cooperate for their mutual benefit, not to compete against one another -- the majority of members heavily favored presenting awards, both to recognize outstanding work in the horror field and to publicize HWA's activities.
The Dracula Society
Site http://www.compulink.co.uk/~blackie/TDS/aboutthedraculas.html
Do you feel an affinity with the supernatural in literature? Is your spiritual home a cobwebby, half-ruined castle somewhere in eastern Europe? Do you curl up at night with a collection of vampire stories, or a volume by Poe, or Le Fanu? If you do, then why not join The Dracula Society? The Society was formed in October 1973 by Bernard Davies and Bruce Wightman, to cater for lovers of the Vampire and his Kind - werewolves, mummies, mad scientists, and all the other monsters spawned by the Gothic genre - and specifically to enable Members to meet and travel to regions such as Transylvania, which had scarcely been touched by package tours at the time.
The Bram Stoker Memorial Association
Site http://www.benecke.com/stoker.html
Dr. Jeanne Keyes Youngson, president and founder of the BRAM STOKER MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION, first became aware of Stoker as an individual in his own right when she read Harry Ludlam's A Biography of Dracula: The Life Story of Bram Stoker in 1964. Indeed, until the publication of Ludlam's book in '62, little was known of Stoker except that he had worked at the Lyceum Theatre in London as Acting Manager for the renowned stage performer, Henry Irving. Ludlam's biography surely set Youngson's subconscious working overtime. In 1965 while on a trip to Romania, she conceived the idea of starting a Dracula Fan Club in honor of Stoker's Count, Vlad Dracula the Impaler, and of course Stoker himself. Now operating under the title THE VAMPIRE EMPIRE, (formerly and for over 35 years the Count Dracula Fan Club), the society is still very much alive and thriving.
Bram Stoker's Grave
Site http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=1381
Burial: Golders Green Crematorium, London, England, Plot: East Columbarium
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The Primrose Path (1875) , The Snake's Pass (1890) , The Watter's Mou' (1895) , The Shoulder of Shasta (1895) , Dracula (1897) , Miss Betty (1898) , The Mystery of the Sea (1902) , The Jewel of Seven Stars (1903) , The Man (AKA: The Gates of Life) (1905) , Lady Athlyne (1908) , Snowbound: The Record of a Theatrical Touring Party (1908) , The Lady of the Shroud (1909) , Lair of the White Worm (1911) , Under the Sunset (1881) , Under the Sunset , The Rose Prince , The Invisible Giant , The Shadow Builder , How 7 Went Mad , Lies and Lilies , The Castle of the King , The Wondrous Child , Dracula's Guest (1914)(Published posthumously by Florence Stoker) , Dracula's Guest , The Judge's House , The Gipsy Prophecy , The Coming of Abel Behenna , The Burial of the Rats , A Dream of Red Hands , Crooken Sands , The Secret of the Growing Gold , Bridal of Dead (alternative ending to The Jewel of Seven Stars) , Buried Treasures , The Chain of Destiny , The Crystal Cup , The Dualitists; or, The Death Doom of the Double Born , The Fate of Fenella , The Gombeen Man , In the Valley of the Shadow , The Man from Shorrox' , Midnight Tales , The Red Stockade , The Seer
Jonathan Harker's Journal
3 May. Bistritz. __Left Munich at 8:35 P. M, on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late. Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the streets. I feared to go very far from the station, as we had arrived late and would start as near the correct time as possible.
The impression I had was that we were leaving the West and entering the East; the most western of splendid bridges over the Danube, which is here of noble width and depth, took us among the traditions of Turkish rule.
- Dracula
Bram Stoker Literature Online
Dracula
Dracula's Guest
lair of the White Worm
Bram Stoker Links
Abraham "Bram" Stoker (1847-1912)
Site http://www.online-literature.com/stoker/
Bram Stoker was born near Dublin on November 8, 1847, the third of seven children. An unidentified illness kept him virtually bedridden until age seven. Although he remained shy and bookish, in his adolescence Bram Stoker was anything but sickly. Perhaps to make amends for his earlier frailty, he was by this time developing into a fine athlete. At Trinity College, Dublin, he would conquer his shyness and be named University Athlete.
Bram Stoker
Site http://www.classic-literature.co.uk/bram-stoker/
Although an invalid in early childhood he could not stand or walk until he was seven , Stoker outgrew his weakness to become an outstanding athlete and football (soccer) player at the University of Dublin. After 10 years in the civil service at Dublin Castle, during which he was also an unpaid drama critic for the Dublin Mail, he made the acquaintance of his idol, the actor Sir Henry Irving, and from 1878 until Irving's death 27 years later, he acted as his manager, writing as many as 50 letters a day for him and accompanying him on his American tours.
The Literary Gothic | Bram Stoker
Site http://www.litgothic.com/Authors/stoker.html
Irish-born writer, theater critic, and manager for the famed late-C19 actor Henry Irving, Stoker is of course best known as the author of Dracula, the definitive vampire story. Stoker wrote a number of other novels and short stories, several of which (The Jewel of Seven Stars and Lair of the White Worm, to mention just a couple of the novels) also have major supernaturalist elements.
Dublin - Bram Stoker
Site http://www.thebramstokerdraculaexperience.com/
The Bram Stoker Dracula Experience is a uniquely different, most interesting, brilliantly, entertaining, interactive, educational and very scary adventure based on the life of Bram Stoker his great vampire creation (Dracula) and horror in general.
Bram (Abraham) Stoker was born in Clontarf, Dublin in 1847. After a sickly childhood he grew up to take a degree at Trinity College Dublin and for a number of years worked as a civil servant at Dublin Castle. However he spent most of his working life in London as secretary to his great acting idol (Sir) Henry Irving and manager of Irving's Lyceum Theatre. Bram Stoker wrote the blood curdling spine chilling masterpiece of Gothic Horror DRACULA which was first published in 1897. The book has both eclipsed and immortalised Stoker himself. It has never been out of print, is the biggest selling novel ever written and has been translated into all the worlds major languages and many minor ones. It is now estimated that over 1,000 film have been inspired by the Dracula story and it has a huge and ongoing effect on the worlds of the cinema, the theatre, art and the performing arts in general as well as the literary world. Arguably it makes Bram Stoker Irelands greatest achiever. Bram Stoker died in London in 1912, survived by his wife Florence and only child Noel. In his native Clontarf he is commemorated by the annual Bram Stoker Summer School and the Bram Stoker cultural Heritage visitor centre.
Bram Stoker Information
Site http://www.geocities.com/psmcalduff/info.html
Bram (Abraham) Stoker was born November 8, 1847 in Dublin, Ireland. His father was a civil servant and his mother was a charity worker and writer. Stoker was a sickly child and spent a lot of time in bed. Growing up his mother told him a lot of horror stories. Stoker studied Math at Trinity College Dublin and he graduated in 1867. After graduation he became a civil servant. At this time, he also worked as a free lance journalist, a drama critic and editor of the "Evening Mail". In 1876 he met Sir Henry Irving, a famous actor. Stoker accepted a job as a personal secretary to Irving and went to England in 1878. Before he left Ireland he published his first book "The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland" in 1878. While working for Irving he met an aspiring actress named Florence Balcombe. They were married 1878 and had one son, Noel, born 1879. In England he also began writing a series of novels and short stories the first of which was "The Snake's Pass". Although best known for "Dracula", Stoker wrote eighteen books before he died in 1912. Stoker died at the age of 64 of exhaustion.
Bram Stoker Award
Site http://www.horror.org/stokers.htm
Each year, the Horror Writer's Association presents the Bram Stoker Awards for Superior Achievement, named in honor of Bram Stoker, author of the seminal horror work, Dracula. The Stoker Awards were instituted immediately after the organization's incorporation in 1987. While many members, including HWA's first President, Dean Koontz, had reservations about awards for writing -- since the point of HWA was for writers to cooperate for their mutual benefit, not to compete against one another -- the majority of members heavily favored presenting awards, both to recognize outstanding work in the horror field and to publicize HWA's activities.
The Dracula Society
Site http://www.compulink.co.uk/~blackie/TDS/aboutthedraculas.html
Do you feel an affinity with the supernatural in literature? Is your spiritual home a cobwebby, half-ruined castle somewhere in eastern Europe? Do you curl up at night with a collection of vampire stories, or a volume by Poe, or Le Fanu? If you do, then why not join The Dracula Society? The Society was formed in October 1973 by Bernard Davies and Bruce Wightman, to cater for lovers of the Vampire and his Kind - werewolves, mummies, mad scientists, and all the other monsters spawned by the Gothic genre - and specifically to enable Members to meet and travel to regions such as Transylvania, which had scarcely been touched by package tours at the time.
The Bram Stoker Memorial Association
Site http://www.benecke.com/stoker.html
Dr. Jeanne Keyes Youngson, president and founder of the BRAM STOKER MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION, first became aware of Stoker as an individual in his own right when she read Harry Ludlam's A Biography of Dracula: The Life Story of Bram Stoker in 1964. Indeed, until the publication of Ludlam's book in '62, little was known of Stoker except that he had worked at the Lyceum Theatre in London as Acting Manager for the renowned stage performer, Henry Irving. Ludlam's biography surely set Youngson's subconscious working overtime. In 1965 while on a trip to Romania, she conceived the idea of starting a Dracula Fan Club in honor of Stoker's Count, Vlad Dracula the Impaler, and of course Stoker himself. Now operating under the title THE VAMPIRE EMPIRE, (formerly and for over 35 years the Count Dracula Fan Club), the society is still very much alive and thriving.
Bram Stoker's Grave
Site http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=1381
Burial: Golders Green Crematorium, London, England, Plot: East Columbarium
"We are one of the great stocks of Europe. We are the people of Burke; we are the people of Swift, the people of Emmet, the people of Parnell. We have created most of the modern literature of this country. We have created the best of its political intelligence."
W. B. Yeats, speech in the Irish Senate, June 11, 1925