Abraham ‘Bram’ Stoker (1847-1912) was an Irish author, best known for writing the 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula. Stoker drew extensively from Transylvanian folklore and history for the novel, and he gave the title character the name Dracula because he thought it meant ‘devil’ in Romanian. The novel was published in the United Kingdom in 1897 by Archibald Constable and Company, and in the United States in 1899 by Doubleday & McClure … (more)
[Eoin O’Dell, Cearta, 31 October 2024]
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