Abraham "Bram" Stoker (1847-1912) was an Irish novelist and short story writer. He also worked as the personal assistant to famous actor Henry Irving for nearly three decades. This position made it possible for him to meet some of the best-known celebrities of his day, such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and James McNeill Whistler. Dracula (1897) is by far his most famous work. Although not the first novel about vampirism, it is the best known and most influential, particularly because of its subtext associating vampirism with ...
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Abraham "Bram" Stoker (1847-1912) was an Irish novelist and short story writer. He also worked as the personal assistant to famous actor Henry Irving for nearly three decades. This position made it possible for him to meet some of the best-known celebrities of his day, such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and James McNeill Whistler. Dracula (1897) is by far his most famous work. Although not the first novel about vampirism, it is the best known and most influential, particularly because of its subtext associating vampirism with sensuality. With Frankenstein , it retmains one of the keystones of modern horror literature. This book is in the Deseret Alphabet, a phonetic system for writing English developed by the Regents of the University of Deseret (now the University of Utah) in the 1850s.
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