Bram Stoker

Most famous for his much-filmed novel Dracula, Bram Stoker was nonetheless a prolific writer. This accessible book offers an introduction to a range of his work novels, short stories, biography, and criticism. It provides a discussion of recent scholarship on Stoker including the many attempts to write his life and find the real Bram Stoker, and the lurid speculation this provokes. Moving beyond this, the author focuses on Stokers career as a late-Victorian and Edwardian novelist in the commercial marketplace, looking at the fictional trends horror, romance, adventure, crime which his work encompasses. The study discusses Stokers bid for fame as a writer, how his novels were received, and their engagement with contemporary anxieties about gender and nationhood.