David J. Skal, who grew up in Garfield Heights, is the author of the recently published 'Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, The Man Who Wrote Dracula.' ...

David J. Skal writes an exuberant combination of biography and cultural history in his new book, an exploration of the life of “Dracula” author Bram Stoker.

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The Bram Stoker Society heard how Dublin-born Stoker's mother's tales of the 1832 cholera epidemic, which killed 1,500, affected her horror-writing son. A remarkable account of how Sligo has been ...

A long-lost story from Bram Stoker, the Irish author of one of the world's best known gothic horror stories Dracula, has been found in Dublin.

By Mary Ann Gwinn, The Seattle Times (TNS) “Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, The Man Who Wrote “Dracula’” by David J. Skal; Liveright (652 pages, $35) Several years ...

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Several years ago, I read the book “Dracula” for the first time, expecting that Bram Stoker’s 19th century fable of blood, lust and the undead would be a quaint echo of Dracula’s many ...