In 1890 Stoker met the Hungarian professor Arminius Vámbéry, who told him about the legend of the Romanian prince Vlad III. In addition, he improved his income as an author of books. Following Irving, Stoker travelled the world. Through his work for Irving, he was introduced to London’s high society, where he met James McNeill Whistler and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, among others. He moved with her to Chelsea, London, where he worked as manager of Irving’s Lyceum Theatre. In 1878 Stoker married Florence Balcombe, a neighbour from Clontarf, who was also courted by Oscar Wilde. His interest in theatre led to a lifelong friendship with actor Henry Irving.īram Stoker (1847-1912) Meeting Arthur Conan Doyle He worked as a journalist and theatre critic and wrote articles for Dublin University Magazine. During this time Stoker wrote a handbook for magistrates’ courts or petty courts. Interestingly, he then became even an athlete and football star at Trinity College in Dublin, where he studied history, literature, mathematics and physics from 1864 to 1870. Next, he became a civil servant at the Department of Justice in Dublin Castle, where his father also worked, which did not satisfy him. Not only his illness was a mystery, but also his recovery was a miracle for his doctors. Eternal sleep and the resurrection of the dead, the central theme of Dracula, were therefore of great importance to him. This traumatic experience is reflected in his literary work. He was ill until the age of seven and could neither stand nor walk alone. Bram Stoker – Early Yearsīram Stoker was born on November 8, 1847, as the third of seven children in Marino Crescent (then in Clontarf near Dublin, now Dublin-Fairview).
But the very first striking and still ongoing success is Bram Stoker’s Dracula. And vampire literature dates even further back to John Polidori‘s 1819 published novell ‘ The Vampyre‘. The vampire on the other side came from legends of the Balkans and Eastern Europe. Oh, obviously Vlad Tepes was anything else but a nice guy, as you might look up by yourself in Wikipedia. Nowadays most people don’t know that identifying Dracula with the historical Vlad Tepes - called Vlad the impaler - was completely made up by Stoker himself. On May 18, 1897, Bram Stoker published his seminal book ‘ Dracula‘ in London and established one of the most influential genres in fantastic literature by introducing the Transylvanian blood sucker.
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