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| April 20, 1912 |
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| Bram Stoker (1847 - 1912) |
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Stoker, Irving & Count Vlad
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| by Steve King |
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On this day in 1912 Bram Stoker died, at the age of sixty-four. Though the author of a dozen novels, three short story collections and four non-fiction books, Stoker is known almost exclusively for Dracula, published in 1897. The novel brought little fame or fortune in Stoker's lifetime, and in his last year he made so little from his writing that he had to petition for a compassionate grant from the Royal Literary Fund. Nor did the book's erotic violence raise eyebrows, although Ibsen's Ghosts, premiering in the same year and much tamer, had caused a furor for bringing up the issue of venereal disease ... FULL STORY »
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