BRAM
STOKER
Bram Stoker was born in Clontarf, Ireland, in 1847 and died in London in 1912. In his youth he was an athlete, and despite the health problems he experienced as a child, he completed his studies at Trinity College.
He went on to become a journalist, biographer, writer, and theatre critic. Through his long and close association with the actor Henry Irving, he served as manager of Irving’s theatre for 27 years.
Bram Stoker became famous for his novel Dracula (1897), a landmark work of Gothic literature that has seen numerous editions and adaptations for both stage and screen.
Stoker, who from an early stage showed an inclination toward the strange and the supernatural—has sometimes been associated in secondary literature with the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, an occult society later linked to Aleister Crowley—also wrote other works with similar themes.
