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A West End theater in London is shaken up by the crimes of Jack the Ripper in this novel by the New York Times #8211;bestselling author of The Star of the Sea . Henry Irving is Victorian London's most celebrated actor and theater impresario. He has introduced groundbreaking ideas to the theater, bringing to the stage performances that are spectacular, shocking, and always entertaining. When Irving decides to open his own London theater with the goal of making it the greatest playhouse on earth, he hires a young Dublin clerk harboring literary ambitions by the name of Bram Stoker to manage it. As Irving's theater grows in reputation and financial solvency, he lures to his company of mummers the century's most beloved actress, the dazzlingly talented leading lady Ellen Terry, who nightly casts a spell not only on her audiences but also on Stoker and Irving both. Bram Stoker's extraordinary experiences at the Lyceum Theatre, his early morning walks on the streets of a London terrorized by a serial killer, his long, tempestuous relationship with Irving, and the closeness he finds with Ellen Terry, inspire him to write Dracula , the most iconic and best-selling supernatural tale ever pu

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Author

Joseph O'Connor

Publisher

Europa Editions, Incorporated

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781609455941

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction

Rating

4.3 / 5 (281 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14