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Bram Stoker, despite having a name nearly as famous as his legendary Count Dracula, has remained a puzzling enigma. Now, in a psychological and cultural portrait, David J. Skal exhumes the inner world and strange genius of the writer who conjured an undying cultural icon. Stoker was inexplicably paralyzed as a boy, and his story unfolds against a backdrop of Victorian medical mysteries and horrors: cholera and famine fever, childhood opium abuse, frantic bloodletting, mesmeric quack cures, and the gnawing obsession with bad blood that inform every page of Dracula. Stokers ambiguous sexuality is explored through his lifelong acquaintance with Oscar Wilde, who emerges as Stokers repressed shadow selfa doppelgnger worthy of a Gothic novel. The psychosexual dimensions of Stokers passionate youthful correspondence with Walt Whitman, his punishing work ethic, and his slavish adoration of the actor Sir Henry Irving are examined in scholarly detail.

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Author

Skal, David J., author

Publisher

New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781631490118

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Biography

Rating

3.57 / 5 (79 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14