Bram Stoker
Abraham 'Bram' Stoker was born in Marino Crescent in Clontarf, Dublin, in 1847.
Stoker married Oscar Wilde’s former sweetheart Florence Balcombe in 1878 and moved with her to London where he became business manager of Henry Irving’s Lyceum Theatre.
His first horror writing, The Chain Of Destiny, appeared as a serial in the Shamrock magazine in 1873.
His books include Under The Sunset (fairytales for children, 1882); The Snakes Pass (1890);
Dracula (London, Constable, 1897/New York, Doubleday & Mclure Company, 1899);
Miss Beauty (1898);
The Mystery of the Sea (1902);
The Jewel of Seven Stars (London, Heinemann 1903/New York, Harper and Brothers, 1904);
The Man (1905); Lady Athlyne (1908);
The Lady of the Shroud (Heinemann, 1909); and
The Lair of the White Worm (London, William Rider & Son 1911).
His other work includes Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland (1879), and Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (1906).
A collection of short stories, Dracula’s Guest and Other Weird Stories (1914), was published after his death.
He died in London in 1912 and was cremated in Golders Green Cemetary.
