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The two men who later became famous authors, knew each other when they were young. Indeed, their two families were close and they both went to the Trinity College in Dublin. However, they had a temporary falling out since they both loved the same woman. Florence Balcombe decided to marry Stoker to Wilde's disarray. Later, Stoker resumed their acquaintanceship and following Wilde's death, Stoker visited his grave in Paris in the Père-Lachaise cemetary.

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Bram Stoker's grandnephew produced a sequel based on the novelist's own notes called Dracula The Un-Dead and it features Bram Stoker as a character in his own fictional creation.

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“The blood is the life! The blood is the life!"

- Renfield, Chapter eleven.

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“No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.”

- Jonathan Harker, Chapter Four.

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Stoke wrote a Dracula play... and it wasn't very good

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Stoke wrote a Dracula play... and it wasn't very good

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On 18 May 1897, Stocker put on a performance of Dracula before the novel was published. Adapting plays from unpublished novels was common in Victorian times, as it ensured the author retained dramatic rights to their story. Stoker quickly put together a mixture of extracts from the novel and additional written dialogue. The resulting play was six hours long, with many of Dracula's most iconic scenes redced to long speeches. Only two people paid to watch this dramatic reading. Stocker's boss, actor HEnry Irving, refused to play the title role and apparently called the play "dreadful".

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From birth to age seven, Bram was bedridden with a severe illness. During those years, he was entertained by some ghastly stories told by his mother, based on her own experiences. This could later on inspire him to write the best gothic and appalling style of literature, such as Dracula. However this is only a theory ?? 🤷🤷

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In fact, at the time of his death nobody knew when he died since he was overshadowed by the biggest tragedy of the era, known as the sinkage of the most luxurious and opulent ships. THE TITANIC ! !

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Bram wrote mainly in two genres, they were romantic fiction and gothic fiction.
He was part of the dark romanticism literary movement.

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Although he is best known for his masterpiece Dracula, Stoker wrote a total of ten novels and two novellas during his lifetime. In terms of genre these twelve works include Gothic horror, adventure and romance.
1875 The Primrose Path
1890 The Snake's Pass
1895 The Watter's Mou'
1895 The Shoulder of Shasta
1897 Dracula
1898 Miss Betty
1902 The Mystery of the Sea
1903 The Jewel of Seven Stars
1905 The Man (The Gates of Life)
1908 Lady Athlyne
1909 The Lady of the Shroud
1911 The Lair of the White Worm (The Garden of Evil)

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Stoker told an interviewer that he had always been interested in the vampire legend, because “it touches both on mystery and fact.” He went on to explain poorly understood natural phenomena. “A person may have fallen into a death-like trance and been buried before the time. Afterwards the body may have been dug up and found alive, and from this a horror seized upon the people, and in their ignorance they imagined that a vampire was about.”

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Stoker’s notes at least suggest that the story might have had its genesis in a disturbing vision or reverie.

Common misconceptions:

First, that it was his masterwork largely because he spent seven years on it, and that the book is renowned for the endless care Stoker took in its crafting.

Second, that a work span of seven years indicates, unusually painstaking and authoritative research, which uncovered, among other things, the grisly true story of a bloodthirsty fifteenth-century Wallachia warlord, Vlad Tepes, “the Impaler,” who was also known as Dracula.

Actually, the reason Dracula took seven years to write was that Stoker had great difficulty writing it, especially cutting through the overload of his own imaginative clutter. The process was twisted, arduous, and constantly interrupted. He stopped to write other books. He questioned himself. He censored himself. He had second, even third thoughts about almost everything. In the end, he wondered if the book would even be remembered.

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Abraham Stoker
(8 November 1847 - 20 April 1912) was an Irish author. Stoker worked as a theatre critic for an Irish newspaper, and wrote stories as well as commentaries.
His most famous book, Dracula, has become one of the most well-known works in English literature, and the novel has been adapted for numerous films, short stories, and plays.

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Dracula  | Author Biography | Bram Stoker

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Stoker believed in progress and took a keen interest in science and science-based medicine. Some of Stoker's novels represent early examples of science fiction, such as The Lady of the Shroud (1909). 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.

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Dracula  | Summary & Analysis | Bram Stoker