The village that brought Dracula to life. Emily Gerard's brothers are buried in St Joseph's cemetery in Airdrie. Image source, ullstein bild Dtl. Max Schreck starring in Nosferatu, the classic silent movie based on the Dracula legend. Bram Stoker owned a copy of Emily Gerard's book. The list led to a recent trawl of the library shelves.
The Scottish fishing village that brought Dracula to life. Image source, Bram Stoker Estate. This was a little bit strange. So maybe, like Lance Armstrong, Bram had some interaction with some secret concoction that helped him turn into a champion athlete.
The book also describes the horror the young Stoker felt at hearing the tale of a premature burial of a cholera victim during the epidemic in Sligo.
This, the authors contend, seeded early visions of the undead returning from the grave. And the original Dracula was, despite or because of the Victorian climate in which it was written, extremely erotic and sexually charged. People were on edge, and he realised how to capitalise on it. Which may go some way towards explaining why for years Stoker was whitewashed from the official literary canon in this country.
You rarely see him on tourist board posters extolling Shaw, Joyce, Beckett and Wilde. So things are beginning to shift. To comment you must now be an Irish Times subscriber.
Please subscribe to sign in to comment. Please update your payment details to keep enjoying your Irish Times subscription. Peter Murphy. The Irish social landscape described in Dracul includes cholera epidemics, famine and poverty, which create a claustrophobic, dread-infused atmosphere As the novel begins, we are introduced to Stoker as a sickly child growing up in Famine-stricken Clontarf, confined to his bedroom, abandoned to the ministrations of a mysterious nursemaid, Ellen Crone, whose secret treatments of the boy result in a drastic transformation of his health and spirits.
More from The Irish Times Books. Home energy upgrades are now more important than ever. The Dublin start-up making the future better with an appreciation for innovation. Commenting on The Irish Times has changed. The account details entered are not currently associated with an Irish Times subscription. Dacre Stoker is the great-grandnephew of Bram Stoker and the international bestselling co-author of Dracula: The Undead. He manages the Bram Stoker Estate. Together, they are the authors of the novel Dracul , available now, the research for which informed this piece.
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Please try again later. Check here if you would like to receive subscription offers and other promotions via email from TIME group companies. This document was exhibited up till in none other than Trinity College which Stoker attended.
So is it likely that Stoker used this story to base his novel on? Harding believes it is. Not only that, Harding tells of another macabre twist of fate which adds an uncanny dimension to the story. It was eventually killed and buried in a way that stopped its power, and now lies undersea.
This event occurred in Howth, County Dublin, where Stoker was born. And when? The year was — the year Dracula was published! Bram Stoker: Bram Abraham Stoker, third of seven children, was born on November 8, , to a Protestant family in north Dublin coastal area of Clontarf.
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