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Bram (abraham) Stoker

Male : Novelist. Married Florence Balcombe in 1878. He died of syphilis
Nationality : Irish Place of Birth : Dublin

Date of Birth : 1847 Date of Death : 1912 Age : 65

Other Work : Civil servant 1866-78. Manager of Sir Henry Irving for 27 years

Education : Trinity College, Dublin (Maths)
1879-1900
The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland
(1879 John Falconer, Dublin)
Under the Sunset
(1882 Sampson Low) - ss. W Fitzgerald & W V Cockburn
A Glimpse of America : A Lecture
(1886 Sampson Low) - 48pp
The Snake's Pass
(1890 Sampson Low) (1890 Harper)
Crooken Sands
(1894 De Vinne, NY)
The Man from Shorrox's
(1894 De Vinne, NY)
The Watter's Mou'
(1894 De Vinne, US) (1895 Constable, Acme Library)
The Shoulder of Shasta
(1895 Constable)
Dracula
(1897 Constable) (1899 Doubleday & McClure)
UK First, 2nd issue, offered in 2002 for £8335
[Filmed in 1931, 1958, 1974, 1979 & 2000, plus dozens of spin-offs]
Miss Betty
(1898 Pearson Latter Day Stories)

1901-1910
The Mystery of the Sea
(1902 Heinemann) (1902 Doubleday Page)
The Jewel of Seven Stars
(1903 Heinemann) (1904 Harper)
[Filmed in 1971 as "Blood from the Mummy's Tomb"]
[Filmed in 1997 as "Bram Stoker's Legend of the Mummy"]
The Man : A Novel
(1905 Heinemann)
Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving
(1906 Heinemann) - 2 vols
(1906 Macmillan, NY)
Lady Athlyne
(1908 Heinemann) (1908 Reynolds, NY)
The Gates of Life
(1908 Cupples & Leon, NY)
Snowbound : The Record of a Theatrical Toruing Party
(1908 Collier 1/- Pb Library)
The Lady of the Shroud
(1909 Heinemann)
Famous Impostors
(1910 Sidgwick & Jackson) (1910 Sturgis & Walton, NY)
American Edition offered in 1999 for £225

After 1911
The Lair of the White Worm
(1911 Rider, London)
[Filmed in 1988]
The Jewel of Seven Stars
(1912 Rider. Revised Edition with a happy ending)
Dracula's Guest & Other Weird Stories
(1914 Routledge) (1937 Hillman-Curl, NY)
[In 14th September, 1927 a Special Souvenir Edition of 1000 numbered copies were presented
to the audience on the 250th performance of the play "Dracula" by Harry L Warburton at
The Prince of Wales Theatre, London.
Opening the book released an elastic-powered black paper bat !]

(Ed) Peter Haining : Shades of Dracula - Bram Stoker's Uncollected Stories (1982 Wm Kimber)
The Dualists, or The Death Doom of the Double Born
(1986 Tragara Press Pb) - 125
Midnight Tales
(1990 Peter Owen £13.50) - ss

EDITIONS OF DRACULA
First Edition : 1st Issue
(June-July 1897 Constable)
First edition : 2nd Issue
(July to Dec 1897 Constable)
First edition : 3rd Issue
(1897 [1898] Constable)
First US Edition
(1899 Doubleday & McClure)
First Paperback edition
(1901 Constable)
Film Edition
(1931 Grosset & Dunlap)
First Irish Edition
(1933 Oifig Diolta Foillseachain Rialtis)
(1965 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Felix Hoffmann

DRACULA FILMS
"Bram Stoker's Count Dracula"
(1970)
"Bram Stoker's Dracula"
(1992)

READING
Harry Ludlam : A Biograhy of Dracula - The Life Story of Bram Stoker
(1962 Foulsham)
R T McNally & R Florescu : In Search of Dracula
(1972)
Daniel Farson : The Man Who Wrote Dracula
(1975 Michael Joseph)
Richard Dalby : Bram Stoker - A Bibliography of First Editions
(1983 Dracula Press, London)
Peter Haining : The Dracula Scrapbook
(1992 Chancellor Press)
Barbara Belford : Bram Stoker - A Biography of the Author of Dracula
(1996 Knopf) (1996 Weidenfeld & Nicolson £25)
Paul Murray : From the Shadow of Dracula - A Life of Bram Stoker
(2004 Cape £18.99)