"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, ...

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, ...