Something in the blood
Subtitle: the untold story of Bram Stoker, the man who wrote Dracula
By: David J. Skal
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 652
ISBN-13: 9781631490101
Subjects: English Novelists; Theatrical managers; Count Dracula (Fictitious character); Vampires in literature; Civilization; Authorship; Biography; Horror tales
Description: First published in 1897, Dracula has had a long and multifaceted afterlife - one rivaling even its immortal creation; yet Bram Stoker has remained a hovering specter in this pervasive mythology. In Something in the Blood, David J. Skal exhumes the inner world and strange genius of the writer who birthed an undying cultural icon, painting an astonishing portrait of the age in which Stoker was born - a time when death was no metaphor but a constant threat easily imagined as a character existing in flesh and blood.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 615-626) and index.