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 * Bram Stoker (1847-1912)**

Abraham (Bram) Stoker was born November 8, 1847 at 15 The Crescent, Clontarf, North of Dublin, the third of seven children. For the first 7 years of his life Stoker was bed ridden with childhood diseases which afforded him much time to reading. By the time he went to college, Stoker had somehow overcome his childhood maladies and while at Trinity College, Dublin, the honor student was involved in soccer and was a marathon running champion. He was also involved in various literary and dramatic activities, a precursor to his later interests in the theater and his involvement with the rising action Henry Irving, whose performance he had critiqued as a student at Trinity. After graduation from college, and in his father's footsteps, he became a civil servant, holding the position of junior clerk in the Dublin Castle.

Bram (Abraham) Stoker was born November 8, 1847 in Dublin, Ireland. His father was a civil servant and his mother was a charity worker and writer. Stoker was a sickly child and spent a lot of time in bed. Growing up his mother told him a lot of horror stories. Stoker studied Math at Trinity College Dublin and he graduated in 1867. After graduation he became a civil servant. At this time, he also worked as a free lance journalist, a drama critic and editor of the "Evening Mail". In 1876 he met Sir Henry Irving, a famous actor. Stoker accepted a job as a personal secretary to Irving and went to England in 1878. Before he left Ireland he published his first book "The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland" in 1878. While working for Irving he met an aspiring actress named Florence Balcombe. They were married 1878 and had one son, Noel, born 1879. In England he also began writing a series of novels and short stories the first of which was "The Snake's Pass". Although best known for "Dracula", Stoker wrote eighteen books before he died in 1912. Stoker died at the age of 64 of exhaustion.
 * Time Period**


 * List of Works**
 * "Bridal of Dead"
 * "Buried Treasures"
 * "The Chain of Destiny"
 * "The Crystal Cup"
 * "The Dualitists; or, The Death Doom of the Double Born"
 * "Lord Castleton Explains"
 * "The Gombeen Man"
 * "In the Valley of the Shadow"
 * "The Man from Shorrox"
 * "Midnight Tales"
 * "The Red Stockade"
 * "The Seer"


 * Famous Quotes**
 * “How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.”
 * “I sometimes think we must all be mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.”
 * "No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.”
 * “There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.”
 * “He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.”
 * “There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.”



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 * Video Link

Bloom,Harold,ed. __Bram Stoker__.Modern Critical Views.New York:Chelsa, 1985.

"Bram Stoker Biography." __UNet Users' Home Pages__. 30 Mar. 2009 http://people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/stokerbio.html.

Goldsmith, Francisca. "Dracula.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)." __Booklist__ 105.13 (March 1, 2009): 55(2). __General OneFile__. Gale. Andalusia City Schools (AVL). 30 Mar. 2009 http://find.galegroup.com/ips/start.do?prodId=IPS.

__Literature.org - The Online Literature Library__. 01 Apr. 2009 http://www.literature.org/authors/bram-stoker/.