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Bram
Stoker
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 Born: 8
November 1847; Dublin- Invalid in
early childhood
- Outstanding
student/athlete at Trinity University
- 10 years
civil service
- Authors a
book of rules: - 1878
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Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in
Ireland
- Drama critic,
Dublin Mail
- Marries
Florence Balcombe (later estranged) -
1878
- Manager of
Lyceum Theatre in London - 1878-1905
- ---- under
actor Sir Henry Irving
- Acquainted
w/parents of Oscar Wilde
- Law degree
while w/the Lyceum
- Irving dies
penniless - 1905
- Dies: 20
April 1912; London
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The Snake's Pass -
1890
Dracula - 1897
The Mystery of
the Sea - 1902
The Jewel of Seven
Stars - 1904
The Lady of the
Shroud - 1909
Lair of the White
Worm - 1911 |
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- Beyond
written sources - the gothic tradition of Walpole, Radcliffe
and LeFanu,
Irish
and Romanian folklore and history - Stoker's vampire creation was
also inspired by experiences in his
own life. He had to spend his first seven years on his
back because of some mysterious childhood ailment. It is
not by chance that interest in strange undiagnosed
disease permeates the entire novel Dracula. In
addition, Stoker's confined existence was similar to that
of the vampire, since he was as bound to his bed as Count
Dracula to his coffin.
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Radu R. Florescu / Raymond T. McNally
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- The girl went
on her knees, and bent over me, simply gloating. There
was a deliberate voluptuousness which was both thrilling
and repulsive, and as she arched her neck she actually
licked her lips like an animal, till I could see in the
moonlight the moisture shining on the scarlet lips and on
the red tongue as it lapped the white sharp teeth. Lower
and lower went her head as the lips went below the range
of my mouth and chin and seemed to fasten on my throat.
Then she paused, and I could hear the churning sound of
her tongue as it licked her teeth and lips, and I could
feel the hot breath on my neck. Then the skin of my
throat began to tingle as one's flesh does when the hand
that is to tickle it approaches nearer - nearer. I could
feel the soft, shivering touch of the lips on the
super-sensitive skin of my throat, and the hard dents of
two sharp teeth just touching and pausing there. I closed
my eyes in languorous ecstasy and waited - waited with
beating heart.
Dracula
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