Talk:Bram Stoker

message: :In 1890 he met the Hungarian professor Arminius Vanbéry, who told him the legend of the Romanian prince Vlad Tepes, better known as Dracula. This person became Count Dracula the vampire in Stoker's fictional novel. In the same year Bram started to write his book Dracula, which he finished 7 years later. For his book he studied the culture and religion of the people on the Balkan and explored the life of the historical person Vlad Tepes.
The Dracula article contradicts almost everything in this paragraph. --Paul A 01:41, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text:  This passage caught my eye: Stoker's inspiration for the story was a visit to Slains Castle near Aberdeen. The bleak spot provided an excellent backdrop for his creation. I am unfamiliar with any documentation to back up this claim.  Zahir13 16:32, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origins of Dracula 

message: Was his wife's maiden name Balcome or Balcombe? It is spelled "Balcome" in the Oscar Wilde article. -- Robertbyrne 20:11, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Florence Balcombe 

message: Despite the claim, Dracula was not the first.  It was preceded about ten years earlier by Camilla, also the first novel to feature a female vampire, allegedly based on the Countess Barothy. --K D Faber — Preceding undated comment added 16:16, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vampire novels 

message: With "Nosferatu", the vampire film has come full circle from creature of dread to the sex object of "Fright Night" & back, with occasional digressions into the absurd, with Leslie Nielson and George Hamilton (the only Dracula with a perfect tan--though David Boreanaz's Angel might qualify there, too, the only one on the set of a sun lotion commercial). --K D Faber — Preceding undated comment added 16:43, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''Nosferatu'' 

message: Nothing in here about his death. I seem to remember he died in poverty and his work wasn't recognised until later.--Crestville 12:45, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: He died in London. The first movie based on Dracula was made a decade after his death. Dragix 20:58, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Death 

message: Hi all, I'm the co-founder and editor of a free on-line journal devoted to Gothic and horror studies. (The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies) I've been stupid enough to start adding links to relevant pages without realising I was getting messages telling me to stop! I have only added links to pages that were relevant but now I'm wondering should I remove some or should I go to each page's discussion section and post a request to add a link? I'd be grateful if someone could advise. Many thanks.IrishGothicJournal 16:52, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Your link look perfectly OK to me. I've had a look at the Irish Gothic site and it is clearly academic in intention and practice - with stuff by respected Eng lit profs and doctors. It's not a pay site, or a promotional site or a shopping site or a restricted membership site, therefore I have no idea why it is being treated as spam. Colin4C 18:44, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Links 

message: See User:Bobmazz. 69.201.182.76 05:09, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Quick note

message: Open to correction but I had understood that The Crescent was in Marino, or some say Fairview but not Clontarf.  Can this be validated? SeoR 23:00, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Appears to be Fairview, though close to Marino. SeoR 02:26, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe let sleeping dogs lie - there was a long-running dispute about this a couple of years ago, would hate to see it start up again. Hohenloh  +   01:37, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

text: In my 1903 edition of Thom's Directory, Marino Crescent is included in a section entitled "CLONTARF AND DOLLYMOUNT, AND PORTION OF FAIRVIEW". There is no mention in Thom's of a district called Marino! Eroica (talk) 15:03, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Was Stoker from Fairview, Marino or Clontarf? 

message: This may sound like a stupid question, but what are the criteria for determining whether certain stories are "uncollected"?  I ask because several of the stories listed in the "uncollected stories" section have appeared in various short story collections.  For example, Dover Publications has a collection of 14 Stoker stories that includes "The Dualitists," "The Crystal Cup," "The Chain of Destiny," and "The Judge's House."  I also remember seeing "The Judge's House" in at least a few other short story collections over the years.  Any enlightenment, anyone?  Z Wylld 21:37, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Uncollected

message: Any information on the cause of Stoker's death?  The biography by Daniel Farson concludes that he died of syphilis.  Has this been corroborated? Z Wylld (talk) 22:20, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Cause of death

message: Does this mean that I can now alter the Bronte sister pages so that they are described as Hiberno-English writers? Eroica (talk) 09:34, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: ---  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.239.122.99 (talk) 23:39, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anglo-Irish 

message: The page asserts that Bram was rumored to be a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, but that there is no conclusive evidence for this. However, the page on the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn lists Bram as a "known member". So was it a rumor or a known fact? Both pages cite the same two books; can anyone with access to either of these books confirm this one way or another, and fix the appropriate page?
71.62.148.133 (talk) 21:00, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hermetic Order? 

message: Bram Stoker was born in Clontarf, Co. Dublin to Irish Parents. He was raised in Ireland, baptized in Ireland... I am at a loss to see him credited here as an English Writer
Good to see that at least The British Encyclopedia Online got his Nationality right
Daresay this is somthing that needs to be adressed in the WIKI  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.232.247.83 (talk) 14:24, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:   A question of Ethnicity and Geography 

message: Wow that was lucky! Is it just a joke? It doesn't seem to mention his wild barn dance nights anywhere on the article. I don't find an article for the publication "Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review Annual" on the wiki and couldn't find the barn story except as reproduction of this article. I must poke around in the attic tomorrow. ~ R.T.G 02:52, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: No it is not a joke and you obviously did not look very much. I found numerous websites that confirm the "1988 Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review Annual" and that Robert Latham was one of the editors. It was also easy to find mentions of the manuscript find in the barn in Pennsylvania including the one that I added today. The world is a marvelous place, unique finds like this happen all the time. Many of the editors here add items based on WP:RS, you will want to read thoroughly WP:AGF before removing sourced edits in the future. That isn't to say that hoaxes don't happen but you will want to do much more research before mocking sourced edits. MarnetteD | Talk 18:42, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Another avenue that you did not pursue was to find the editor that made the edit and ask them about it. If it is an editor that has a history of vandalism then it might be removed. If, as in this case, it is an editor of long standing reliability asking them about the edit is the proper thing to do before removing the item in question. MarnetteD | Talk 19:14, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

text: There's also a newer mention in Bram Stoker's Notes for Dracula: a Facsimile Edition By Bram Stoker, Robert Eighteen-Bisang, Michael Barsanti, Elizabeth Miller (2008), see p. 286. --Wikiwatcher1 (talk) 20:18, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

text: Another source, Bram Stoker and the Man who was Dracula, By Barbara Belford, (1996) p. 269 --Wikiwatcher1 (talk) 20:27, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

text: And of course it might help to include the barn story source. --Wikiwatcher1 (talk) 21:56, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: A quick Google for "dracula manuscript pennsylvania" will also find a confirming Wall Street Journal article here, wherein it is revealed the Pennsylvania barn version of the manuscript had a different ending and is now owned by Paul Allen. Studerby (talk) 23:14, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I presume searching the edit history of a cult authors article for one small peice of text to be ridiculous. The Barbara Belford book is inaccessible. The book presumeably based on Stokers own notes, provided here as a search for the word un-dead, does not return any hits when searching the word barn  and the un-established sci-fi rag is hardly stand alone good referencing. Even if it was I see little or no information. It reminds me of the 100-year old Britannica on Wikisource, does not give a lot of information. I am not fully convinced that the finding of it in a barn is untrue but it is easy to see that as it is presented here, it is only a rumour. How could such an interesting titbit not be easily referenced? About Dracula? I searched for the story about Dracula by the way not the fanzine. Dracula is more notable than the fanzine so where is the story? It would have been headline news on every english-language paper and re-run endlessly every time the film was remade. Load of rubbish. Smells of that craic on Jimbo Wales talk page at the minute. Tales of fish. Produce one proper source for such a digestable story. It doesn't appear on the large Dracula article... ~ R.T.G 23:42, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

text: I don't find anything in the Orange County Registar . The only place this reference, The Sunday Gazette-Mail could be found was encyclopedia.com. The fact that major publications have covered dozens of articles on Dracula but do not mention The Barn... ~ R.T.G 00:34, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I managed to over look the Wall Street Jounrnal ref the first time and I asked on the refdesk where someone produced it again WP:RD/Humanities#Bram_Stokers_Dracula_was_lost_and_found_in_a_barn_in_Pennsylvania. That's a useable source but it differs significantly with the current tale in how many pages and wether it is the original manuscript. Obviously still an old wives tale to me but I would rely more strongly on the Wall Street Journals take than on the old sci-fi rag, and it gives the owner to be Microsofts Paul Allen. ~ R.T.G 00:53, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It's pretty clear that it was put up for auction at Christies and the background details prove it was consigned by a California book dealer.  Even the BBC covered it. Overall, it seems that the "barn" question isn't really that important anyway. Attic, cellar, or barn are all the same. My guess is that the buyer wanted to keep his ownership private, if possible. But the story does have the makings of a good mystery movie ;)--Wikiwatcher1 (talk) 01:05, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: You try and find that information on the Christies site... missing. When such a story is largely ignored by the press there is instant room for speculation and the sources provided here are black on one page and white on the other while the rest of them who are always rattling on about these sort of stories are pretending this one never happened. Well, I am going to go and watch the X-Files or something. Wish me luck, I might find a pot of gold under the hedges later... ~ R.T.G 01:07, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

text: It was a bright spring morning on one of the typical picturesque farms which dot the rural north-western region of Pennsylvania. ... But on this particular day one of the most extraordinary and unsuspected discoveries in the history of literature was about to be made. ... On the day in question, two members of the family had decided to satisfy their idle curiosity and look through the contents of the barn [which had been "given over to storing a whole variety of old items and belongings discarded over the years"]. ... On clearing the general clutter, three trunks were found and hauled out into the daylight. ... The first [contained] a bundle of small, innocuous personal items and a large sheaf of papers. ... On closer examination, the sheaf of papers proved [to be] a manuscript, quite old, and typewritten. ... There was a smudged  and grubby title page, too, on which had been written in a far from clear hand: THE UN-DEAD. Looking closer, the couple thought at first glance that the line below this title read 'By Barn Stoker', but an 'r' had apparently been smudged by the writer's pen, and the name was more likely 'Bram Stoker'.
Haining, Peter. The Dracula Scrapbook. Longmeadow Press, Stamford, CT, 1992.NoahDavidHenson (talk) 19:00, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: So can anyone explain here how the manuscript got into a Pennsylvania barn?? 70.17.165.239 (talk) 02:20, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Found in a barn in Pennsylvania 

message: Is there nothing on the early life of the author? Is there nothing of note in the first 29 years of his life, nothing on his childhood or family?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.132.192.245 (talk) 12:09, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Early Life 

message: Could Stoker's association with Whitby be clarified? I only say this as this was one of the few things i knew about Stoker before i read the article, and the sentence beginning "Stoker's inspirations for the story, in addition to Whitby..." seem to suggest this link has already been discussed earlier in the article, but I can't find such a reference...  — Invulgo (talk) 19:52, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Could Stoker's association with Whitby be clarified? 

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message: I noticed that the photo here of Cruden Bay and the one on the page for Slains Castle are the same photo, but one has been retouched for color quite a lot.
Bram Stoker Page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Stoker#/media/File:SlainsCastleCrudenBay.jpg
Slains Castle Page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Slains_Castle#/media/File:SlainsCastleDracula.jpg
Note that this doesn't appear to be the same photo angle taken in different lighting conditions; waves and people in the background are in the exact same positions. I'm guessing that the red-hued photo is the retouched one. It seems like it's been so heavily altered to give the rocks a bloody effect that the other (original?) shot should replace it, but I'm new here so I didn't want to change anything out of turn. Akaakay (talk) 00:52, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cruden Bay Photo 

message: Any reason most of his Irish influences are edited out and deleted. Are we to assume Dublin Castle, his birth , work and life in Ireland  had no influence in his work? Sorry but your bias is showing . 86.156.166.58 (talk) 01:50, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  So he wasn’t Irish then? 

message: This strange debate has been rumbling on for some time and I'm slightly bemused by the ferocity of the debates which seem more emotional than based on what anyone has ever written on the subject.
Joseph Valante notes that;
"Stoker himself came partly from Celtic stock, [he] was an Anglo-Celtic rather than traditionally Anglo-Irish subject"
https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2000.0058
Andrew Smith writes of Stoker's 
"view that Ireland would benefit, economically, by becoming part of Britain..."
http://doi/10.7227/GS.5.2.3
That said, "Irish" is probably better than "English"[???] which was on the page for a while.
Lazdona (talk) 15:33, 26 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  British-Irish? Anglo-Celtic?