The Man From Shorrox

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Working for Irving, the most famous actor of his time, and managing one of the most successful theatres in London made Stoker a notable if busy man. He was dedicated to Irving and his memoirs show he idolised him. In London Stoker also met Hall Caine , who became one of his closest friends — he dedicated Dracula to him. In the course of Irving's tours, Stoker travelled the world, although he never visited Eastern Europe , a setting for his most famous novel. Stoker enjoyed the United States, where Irving was popular.

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Stoker set two of his novels there, using Americans as characters, the most notable being Quincey Morris. He also met one of his literary idols, Walt Whitman. Stoker visited the English coastal town of Whitby in , and that visit was said to be part of the inspiration for Dracula. He began writing novels while working as manager for Henry Irving and secretary and director of London's Lyceum Theatre, beginning with The Snake's Pass in and Dracula in Dracula is an epistolary novel , written as a collection of realistic but completely fictional diary entries, telegrams, letters, ship's logs, and newspaper clippings, all of which added a level of detailed realism to the story, a skill which Stoker had developed as a newspaper writer.

At the time of its publication, Dracula was considered a "straightforward horror novel" based on imaginary creations of supernatural life.

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Stoker was a deeply private man, but his almost sexless marriage, intense adoration of Walt Whitman , Henry Irving and Hall Caine , and shared interests with Oscar Wilde , as well as the homoerotic aspects of Dracula have led to scholarly speculation that he was a repressed homosexual who used his fiction as an outlet for his sexual frustrations.

According to the Encyclopedia of World Biography , Stoker's stories are today included in the categories of "horror fiction", "romanticized Gothic" stories, and "melodrama. The original page typescript of Dracula was believed to have been lost until it was found in a barn in northwestern Pennsylvania in the early s.

Author Robert Latham remarked: Stoker's inspirations for the story, in addition to Whitby, may have included a visit to Slains Castle in Aberdeenshire , a visit to the crypts of St. Stoker's original research notes for the novel are kept by the Rosenbach Museum and Library in Philadelphia.

After suffering a number of strokes, Stoker died at No.

The ashes of Irving Noel Stoker, the author's son, were added to his father's urn following his death in The original plan had been to keep his parents' ashes together, but after Florence Stoker's death, her ashes were scattered at the Gardens of Rest. Stoker was raised a Protestant in the Church of Ireland. He was a strong supporter of the Liberal Party and took a keen interest in Irish affairs. He remained an ardent monarchist who believed that Ireland should remain within the British Empire, an entity that he saw as a force for good.

He was an admirer of Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone , whom he knew personally, and supported his plans for Ireland. Stoker believed in progress and took a keen interest in science and science-based medicine. Some Stoker novels represent early examples of science fiction , such as The Lady of the Shroud He had a writer's interest in the occult, notably mesmerism , but despised fraud and believed in the superiority of the scientific method over superstition. Stoker counted among his friends J. The short story collection Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories was published in by Stoker's widow, Florence Stoker, who was also his literary executrix.

The first film adaptation of Dracula was F. Florence Stoker eventually sued the filmmakers, and was represented by the attorneys of the British Incorporated Society of Authors. Her chief legal complaint was that she had neither been asked for permission for the adaptation nor paid any royalty.

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The case dragged on for some years, with Mrs. Stoker demanding the destruction of the negative and all prints of the film. The suit was finally resolved in the widow's favour in July A single print of the film survived, however, and it has become well known.

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The first authorised film version of Dracula did not come about until almost a decade later when Universal Studios released Tod Browning 's Dracula starring Bela Lugosi. Canadian writer Dacre Stoker , a great-grandnephew of Bram Stoker, decided to write "a sequel that bore the Stoker name" to "reestablish creative control over" the original novel, with encouragement from screenwriter Ian Holt, because of the Stokers' frustrating history with Dracula's copyright.

Both writers "based [their work] on Bram Stoker's own handwritten notes for characters and plot threads excised from the original edition" along with their own research for the sequel. This also marked Dacre Stoker's writing debut.

A Dream of Red Hands

Hould up yer head! Some iv the min round what knew iv the ould attorney-man—saving yer prisince—began to laugh too; and this made the Manchesther man suspicious. When the likes iv him gets suspicious he gets rale nasty; so he sez, wid a shneer: In the half of two twos the man from Manchesther would have been cut in ribbons, but there came a cry from the widdy what made the glasses ring: Do ye raly mane to put him in the room wid the corp? Dhrink toasts till he misremimbers where he is! He had enough iv the dhrink in him to be quarrelsome.

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