Before publishing his vampire classic in 1897, the author was employed as a personal secretary at the Actors' Benevolent Fund The imagination of Bram Stoker gave life to one of literature's most enduring terrors, Count Dracula. But the Irish-born writer's mind was not only full of flapping cloaks, dripping fangs and creaking coffins. Stoker, it can now be confirmed, also had a strong vein, or shall we say streak, of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AM on January 15, 2024