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 Abraham 'Bram' Stoker (1847 - 1912) was such a sickly child that he could hardly stand on his own two feet until he was seven years old. He made up for this earlier weakness, however, and became the champion athlete of his year at Trinity College, Dublin.
As with many sickly children, he had plenty of time to read and he developed an abiding passion for literature.
After university, he followed his father into the Irish Civil Service in Dublin, but soon became bored and disenchanted with this career. He enjoyed the theatre, so he became an unpaid drama critic for the Dublin Mail.
The most famous actor of the time was Sir Henry Irving and from 1878 until Irving's death in 1905, Bram Stoker became Irving's manager and secretary.
In 1878 Bram Stoker also married Oscar Wilde's former girlfriend, Florence Balcombe.
Bram Stoker wrote about a dozen novels, but is mainly remembered for only one - Dracula, which was published in 1897. The novel is a true masterpiece of the macabre; with it's parade of evil monsters and it's compelling story line, it was an immediate success and has remained so ever since.
The definitive film version was a silent movie made in 1931, with Bela Lugosi in the title role.
Since then dozens of Dracula films have been made, the most well-known being the Hammer Horror films featuring actor Christopher Lee, but none of them have really come close to capturing the atmosphere of mounting terror in Bram Stoker's Dracula. [edit]
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