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<p>"What a splendid subject to sink one's teeth into," raved the <i>Washington Post</i>. Here was a six-foot-two Irishman with a red beard—a Victorian family man, a spirited debater, and the author of novels and short stories largely forgotten today. All, of course, except for <i>Dracula</i>, which has enjoyed countless stage and screen incarnations and haunted the dreams of many generations. Bram Stoker lived at the very center of late-Victorian social and artistic life and numbered among his friends Oscar Wilde, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, James Whistler, William Gladstone, and Alfred Lord Tennyson. But it was his relationship with the mesmerizing, domineering actor Henry Irving that may have played the most crucial role in Stoker's life—a real-life monster who ultimately led to Stoker's most famous creation. In this book that the <i>Baltimore Sun</i> called "superb," Barbara Belford draws on unpublished archival material to reveal the links between the reticent author's life, his vampire tale, and the political, occult, cultural, and sexual background of the 1890s.</p>

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Author

Belford, Barbara

Publisher

Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780306810985

Category

history

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Memoir

Rating

3.76 / 5 (17 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14