Bram Stoker

Irish author (1847–1912)

Bram Stoker

Stoker c. 1906

Born| Abraham Stoker
(1847-11-08)8 November 1847
Clontarf, Dublin, Ireland
Died| 20 April 1912(1912-04-20) (aged 64)
Pimlico, London, England
Resting place| Golders Green Crematorium, north London
Pen name| Bram Stoker
Occupation| Novelist, personal assistant, business manager
Language| English
Nationality| Irish
Alma mater| Trinity College, Dublin (BA, MA)
Period| Victorian era, Edwardian era
Genre| Gothic fiction, romantic fiction
Literary movement| Dark romanticism
Notable works| Dracula (1897)
Spouse|

Florence Balcombe

(m. 1878)​

Children| 1
Relatives| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Signature
Website
www.bramstokerestate.com

Abraham Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912), better known by his pen name Bram Stoker,[1] was an Irish novelist who wrote the 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula. The book is widely considered a milestone in Vampire fiction, and one of the most famous classics of English literature.[2] The primary antagonist of the novel, Count Dracula, is often ranked among the most iconic and best-known fictional figures of the entire Victorian era,[3][4] and the character's popularity has led to countless adaptations for films, movies, plays, comics, video games, cartoons, stage performances, and other forms of media.[5][6]

During his life, he was better known as the personal assistant of the actor Sir Henry Irving and business manager of the West End's Lyceum Theatre, which Irving owned. Stoker was also a distant relative of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of the fictional Sherlock Holmes crime detective character. The two novelists collaborated in writing other novels such as The Fate of Fenella in 1892.[7]

In his early years, Stoker worked as a theatre critic for an Irish newspaper and wrote stories as well as commentaries. He also enjoyed travelling, particularly to Cruden Bay in Scotland where he set two of his novels and drew inspiration for writing Dracula. He died on 20 April 1912 due to locomotor ataxia and was cremated in north London. Since his death, his magnum opus Dracula has become one of the best-selling works of vampire literature, and a classic of the genre.

## Early life

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Stoker was born on 8 November 1847 at 15 Marino Crescent, Clontarf, in Dublin, Ireland.[8] The park adjacent to the house is now known as Bram Stoker Park.[9] His parents were Abraham Stoker (1799–1876), an Anglo-Irishman from Dublin and Charlotte Mathilda Blake Thornley (1818–1901), of English and Irish descent, who was raised in County Sligo.[10] Stoker was the third of seven children, the eldest of whom was Sir Thornley Stoker, 1st Baronet.[11] Abraham and Charlotte were members of the Church of Ireland Parish of Clontarf and attended the parish church with their children, who were baptised there.[12] Abraham was a senior civil servant.

Stoker was bedridden with an unknown illness until he started school at the age of seven when he made a complete recovery. Of this time, Stoker wrote, "I was naturally thoughtful, and the leisure of long illness gave opportunity for many thoughts which were fruitful according to their kind in later years." He was privately educated at Bective House school run by the Reverend William Woods.[13][14]

After his recovery, he grew up without further serious illnesses, even excelling as an athlete at Trinity College, Dublin, which he attended from 1864 to 1870. He graduated with a BA in 1870 and paid to receive his MA in 1875. Though he later in life recalled graduating "with honours in mathematics", this appears to have been a mistake.[15] He was named University Athlete, participating in multiple sports, including playing rugby for Dublin University. He was auditor of the College Historical Society (the Hist) and president of the University Philosophical Society (he remains the only student in Trinity's history to hold both positions), where his first paper was on Sensationalism in Fiction and Society.

## Early career

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Bram Stoker's former home featuring a commemorative plaque, Kildare Street, Dublin

Stoker became interested in the theatre while a student through his friend Dr. Maunsell. While working for the Irish Civil Service, he became the theatre critic for the Dublin Evening Mail,[16] which was co-owned by Sheridan Le Fanu, an author of Gothic tales. Theatre critics were held in low esteem at the time, but Stoker attracted notice by the quality of his reviews. In December 1876, he gave a favourable review of Henry Irving's Hamlet at the Theatre Royal in Dublin. Irving invited Stoker for dinner at the Shelbourne Hotel where he was staying, and they became friends. Stoker also wrote stories, and "Crystal Cup" was published by the London Society in 1872, followed by "The Chain of Destiny" in four parts in The Shamrock. In 1876, while a civil servant in Dublin, Stoker wrote the non-fiction book The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland (published 1879), which remained a standard work.[13] Furthermore, he possessed an interest in art and was a founder of the Dublin Sketching Club in 1879.

## Lyceum Theatre

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Stoker's residence at 18 St Leonard's Terrace, Chelsea, London

Blue plaque at the address

In 1878, Stoker married Florence Balcombe, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel James Balcombe of 1 Marino Crescent. She was a celebrated beauty whose former suitor had been Oscar Wilde.[17] Stoker had known Wilde from his student days, having proposed him for membership of the university's Philosophical Society while he was president. Wilde was upset at Florence's decision, but Stoker later resumed the acquaintanceship, and, after Wilde's fall, visited him on the Continent.[18]

The Stokers moved to London, where Stoker became acting manager and then business manager of Irving's Lyceum Theatre in the West End, a post he held for 27 years.[19] On 31 December 1879, Bram and Florence's only child was born, a son whom they christened Irving Noel Thornley Stoker. The collaboration with Henry Irving was important for Stoker and through him, he became involved in London's high society, where he met James Abbott McNeill Whistler and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (to whom he was distantly related). Working for Irving, the most famous actor of his time, and managing one of the most successful theatres in London made Stoker a notable if busy man. He was dedicated to Irving and his memoirs show he idolised him. In London, Stoker also met Hall Caine, who became one of his closest friends – he dedicated Dracula to him.

In the course of Irving's tours, Stoker travelled the world, although he never visited Eastern Europe, a setting for his most famous novel. Stoker enjoyed the United States, where Irving was popular. With Irving, he was invited twice to the White House and knew William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. Stoker set two of his novels in America and used Americans as characters, the most notable being Quincey Morris. He also met one of his literary idols, Walt Whitman, having written to him in 1872 an extraordinary letter[20] that some have interpreted as the expression of a deeply-suppressed homosexuality.[21][22]

## Bram Stoker in Cruden Bay

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Slains Castle, Cruden Bay. The early chapters of Dracula were written in Cruden Bay, and Slains Castle possibly provided visual inspiration for Bram Stoker during the writing phase.

Stoker was a regular visitor to Cruden Bay in Scotland between 1892 and 1910. His month-long holidays to the Aberdeenshire coastal village provided a large portion of available time for writing his books. Two novels were set in Cruden Bay: The Watter's Mou' (1895) and The Mystery of the Sea (1902). He started writing Dracula there in 1895 while in residence at the Kilmarnock Arms Hotel. The guest book with his signatures from 1894 and 1895 still survives. The nearby Slains Castle (also known as New Slains Castle) is linked with Bram Stoker and plausibly provided the visual palette for the descriptions of Castle Dracula during the writing phase. A distinctive room in Slains Castle, the octagonal hall, matches the description of the octagonal room in Castle Dracula.[23]

## Writings

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Commemorative plaque in Whitby, North Yorkshire, the English coastal town frequented by Stoker, and where Count Dracula comes ashore in Dracula

Stoker visited the English coastal town of Whitby in 1890, and that visit was said to be part of the inspiration for Dracula, staying at a guesthouse in West Cliff at 6 Royal Crescent, doing his research at the public library at 7 Pier Road (now Quayside Fish and Chips).[24][25][26][27] Count Dracula comes ashore at Whitby, and in the shape of a black dog runs up the 199 steps to the graveyard of St Mary's Church in the shadow of the Whitby Abbey ruins.[28] Stoker began writing novels while working as manager for Irving and secretary and director of London's Lyceum Theatre, beginning with The Snake's Pass in 1890 and Dracula in 1897. During this period, he was part of the literary staff of The Daily Telegraph in London, and he wrote other fiction, including the horror novels The Lady of the Shroud (1909) and The Lair of the White Worm (1911).[29] He published his Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving in 1906, after Irving's death, which proved successful,[13] and managed productions at the Prince of Wales Theatre.

Before writing Dracula, Stoker met Ármin Vámbéry, a Hungarian-Jewish writer and traveller (born in Szent-György, Kingdom of Hungary now Svätý Jur, Slovakia). Dracula likely emerged from Vámbéry's dark stories of the Carpathian Mountains.[30] However this claim has been challenged by many including Elizabeth Miller, a professor who, since 1990, has had as her major field of research and writing Dracula, and its author, sources, and influences. She has stated, "The only comment about the subject matter of the talk was that Vambery 'spoke loudly against Russian aggression.'" There had been nothing in their conversations about the "tales of the terrible Dracula" that are supposed to have "inspired Stoker to equate his vampire-protagonist with the long-dead tyrant." At any rate, by this time, Stoker's novel was well underway, and he was already using the name Dracula for his vampire.[31] Stoker then spent several years researching Central and East European folklore and mythological stories of vampires.

The 1972 book In Search of Dracula by Radu Florescu and Raymond McNally claimed that the Count in Stoker's novel was based on Vlad III Dracula.[32] However, according to Elizabeth Miller, Stoker borrowed only the name and "scraps of miscellaneous information" about Romanian history; further, there are no comments about Vlad III in the author's working notes.[33][34][35]

The first edition cover of Dracula

Dracula is an epistolary novel, written as a collection of realistic but completely fictional diary entries, telegrams, letters, ship's logs, and newspaper clippings, all of which added a level of detailed realism to the story, a skill which Stoker had developed as a newspaper writer. At the time of its publication, Dracula was considered a "straightforward horror novel" based on imaginary creations of supernatural life.[29] "It gave form to a universal fantasy ... and became a part of popular culture."[29]

According to the Encyclopedia of World Biography, Stoker's stories are today included in the categories of horror fiction, romanticized Gothic stories, and melodrama.[29] They are classified alongside other works of popular fiction, such as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, which also used the myth-making and story-telling method of having multiple narrators telling the same tale from different perspectives. According to historian Jules Zanger, this leads the reader to the assumption that "they can't all be lying".[36]

The original 541-page typescript of Dracula was believed to have been lost until it was found in a barn in northwestern Pennsylvania in the early 1980s.[37] It consisted of typed sheets with many emendations, and handwritten on the title page was "THE UN-DEAD." The author's name was shown at the bottom as Bram Stoker. Author Robert Latham remarked: "the most famous horror novel ever published, its title changed at the last minute".[38] The typescript was purchased by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.

Stoker's inspirations for the story, in addition to Whitby, may have included a visit to Slains Castle in Aberdeenshire, a visit to the crypts of St. Michan's Church in Dublin, and the novella Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu.[39]

Stoker's original research notes for the novel are kept by the Rosenbach Museum and Library in Philadelphia. A facsimile edition of the notes was created by Elizabeth Miller and Robert Eighteen-Bisang in 1998.

## Stoker at the London Library

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Stoker was a member of the London Library and conducted much of the research for Dracula there. In 2018, the Library discovered some of the books that Stoker used for his research, complete with notes and marginalia.[40]

## Death

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Shared urn which contains Stoker's and his son's ashes in Golders Green Crematorium

After suffering a number of strokes, Stoker died at No. 26 St George's Square, London on 20 April 1912.[41] Some biographers attribute the cause of death to overwork,[42] others to tertiary syphilis.[43] His death certificate listed the cause of death as "Locomotor ataxia 6 months", presumed to be a reference to syphilis.[44][45] He was cremated, and his ashes are contained in a display urn at Golders Green Crematorium in north London. The ashes of Irving Noel Stoker, the author's son, were added to his father's urn following his death in 1961. The original plan had been to keep his parents' ashes together, but after Florence Stoker's death, her ashes were scattered at the Gardens of Rest.

## Beliefs and philosophy

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Stoker was raised a Protestant in the Church of Ireland. He was a strong supporter of the Liberal Party and took a keen interest in Irish affairs.[13] As a "philosophical home ruler", he supported Home Rule for Ireland brought about by peaceful means. He remained an ardent monarchist who believed that Ireland should remain within the British Empire. He was an admirer of Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone, whom he knew personally, and supported his plans for Ireland.[46]

Stoker believed in progress and took a keen interest in science and science-based medicine. Some of Stoker's novels represent early examples of science fiction, such as The Lady of the Shroud (1909). He had a writer's interest in the occult, notably mesmerism, but despised fraud and believed in the superiority of the scientific method over superstition. Stoker counted among his friends J. W. Brodie-Innis, a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and hired member Pamela Colman Smith as an artist for the Lyceum Theatre, but no evidence suggests that Stoker ever joined the Order himself.[47][48][49]

Like Irving, who was an active Freemason, Stoker also became a member of the order, "initiated into Freemasonry in Buckingham and Chandos Lodge No. 1150 in February 1883, passed in April of that same year, and raised to the degree of Master Mason on 20 June 1883."[50] Stoker however was not a particular active Freemason, spent only six years as an active member,[51] and did not take part in any Masonic activities during his time in London.[52]

## Posthumous

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The short story collection Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories was published in 1914 by Stoker's widow, Florence Stoker, who was also his literary executrix. The first film adaptation of Dracula was F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu, released in 1922, with Max Schreck starring as Count Orlok. Florence Stoker eventually sued the filmmakers and was represented by the attorneys of the British Incorporated Society of Authors. Her chief legal complaint was that she had neither been asked for permission for the adaptation nor paid any royalty. The case dragged on for some years, with Mrs. Stoker demanding the destruction of the negative and all prints of the film. The suit was finally resolved in the widow's favour in July 1925. A single print of the film survived, however, and it has become well known. The first authorised film version of Dracula did not come about until almost a decade later when Universal Studios released Tod Browning's Dracula starring Bela Lugosi.

### Dacre Stoker

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Canadian writer Dacre Stoker, a great-grandnephew of Bram Stoker, decided to write "a sequel that bore the Stoker name" to "reestablish creative control over" the original novel, with encouragement from screenwriter Ian Holt, because of the Stokers' frustrating history with Dracula's copyright. In 2009, Dracula: The Un-Dead was released, written by Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt. Both writers "based [their work] on Bram Stoker's own handwritten notes for characters and plot threads excised from the original edition" along with their own research for the sequel. This also marked Dacre Stoker's writing debut.[53][54]

In spring 2012, Dacre Stoker in collaboration with Elizabeth Miller presented the "lost" Dublin Journal written by Bram Stoker, which had been kept by his great-grandson Noel Dobbs. Stoker's diary entries shed a light on the issues that concerned him before his London years. A remark about a boy who caught flies in a bottle might be a clue for the later development of the Renfield character in Dracula.[55]

## Commemorations

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On 8 November 2012, Stoker was honoured with a Google Doodle on Google's homepage commemorating the 165th anniversary of his birth.[56][57]

An annual festival takes place in Dublin, the birthplace of Bram Stoker, in honour of his literary achievements. The Dublin City Council Bram Stoker Festival encompasses spectacles, literary events, film, family-friendly activities and outdoor events, and takes place every October Bank Holiday Weekend in Dublin.[58][59] The festival is supported by the Bram Stoker Estate[60] and is funded by Dublin City Council.

## Bibliography

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### Novels

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* The Primrose Path (1875)
* The Chain of Destiny (novella) (1875)
* The Snake's Pass (1890)
* The Watter's Mou' (novella) (1895)
* The Shoulder of Shasta (1895)
* Dracula (1897)
* Miss Betty (1898)
* The Mystery of the Sea (1902)
* The Jewel of Seven Stars (1903, revised 1912)
* The Man (1905); issued also as The Gates of Life
* Lady Athlyne (1908)
* The Lady of the Shroud (1909)
* The Lair of the White Worm (1911, posthumously abridged 1925); issued also as The Garden of Evil

### Short story collections

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* Under the Sunset (1881) – eight fairy tales for children
* Snowbound: The Record of a Theatrical Touring Party (1908)
* Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories (1914)

### Uncollected stories

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Title  | Date of earliest appearance  | Earliest appearance  | Notes

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"The Crystal Cup"  | September 1872  | London Society (London)  |
"Buried Treasures"  | 13 March 1875 and 20 March 1875  | The Shamrock (Dublin)  |
"The Chain of Destiny"  | 1 May 1875 and 22 May 1875  | The Shamrock (Dublin)  |
"Our New House"  | 23 November 1885  | The Theatre Annual (London)  |
"The Dualitists; or, The Death Doom of the Double Born"  | November 1886  | The Theatre Annual (London)  |
"The Gombeen Man"  | 1890  | The People (London)  | Chapter 3 of The Snake's Pass
"Gibbet Hill"[61] | 17 December 1890  | Daily Express (Dublin)  |
"The Night of the Shifting Bog"  | January 1891  | Current Literature: A Magazine of Record and Review, Vol. VI, No. 1. (New York)  | Chapter 17 of The Snake's Pass
"Lord Castleton Explains"  | 30 January 1892  | The Gentlewoman: The Illustrated Weekly Journal for Gentlewomen (London)  | Chapter 10 of The Fate of Fenella (Hutchinson, 1892)
"Old Hoggen: A Mystery"  | 15 January 1893  | Boston Herald |
"The Man from Shorrox"  | February 1894  | The Pall Mall Magazine (London)  |
"When the Sky Rains Gold"  | 26 August and 2 September 1894  | Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper (London)  |
"The Red Stockade"  | September 1894  | The Cosmopolitan: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine (London)  |
"At the Watter's Mou': Between Duty and Love"  | November 1895  | Current Literature: A Magazine of Record and Review, Vol. XVIII, No. 5. (New York)  | Part of Chapter 2 of The Watter's Mou'
"Bengal Roses"  | 17 and 24 July 1898  | Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper |
"A Baby Passenger"  | 9 February 1899  | Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper | Alternate version of "Chin Music", from Snowbound
"A Young Widow"  | 26 March 1899  | Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper |
"A Yellow Duster"  | 7 May 1899  | Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper |
"Lucky Escapes of Sir Henry Irving"  | 1 May 1900  | The St. Paul Globe |
"The Seer"  | 1902  | The Mystery of the Sea (New York: Doubleday, Page & Co.)  | Chapters 1 and 2 of The Mystery of the Sea
"The Bridal of Death"  | 1903  | The Jewel of the Seven Stars (London: William Heinemann)  | Alternate ending to The Jewel of Seven Stars
"A Widower's Grief"  | October 1906  | Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (London: William Heinemann)  | Part of Chapter 39 of Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving
"To the Rescue"  | 22 April 1908  | The Westminster Gazette |
"The 'Eroes of the Thames"  | October 1908  | The Royal Magazine (London)  |
"What They Confessed: A Low Comedian's Story"  | 27 December 1908  | Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper | Alternate version of "In Fear of Death", from Snowbound
"The Way of Peace"  | December 1909  | Everybody's Story Magazine (London)  |
"Greater Love"  | October 1914  | The London Magazine (London)  |

### Non-fiction

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* The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland (1879)
* A Glimpse of America (1886)
* Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (1906)
* Famous Impostors (1910)
* Great Ghost Stories (1998) (Compiled by Peter Glassman, Illustrated by Barry Moser)
* Bram Stoker's Notes for Dracula: A Facsimile Edition (2008) Bram Stoker Annotated and Transcribed by Robert Eighteen-Bisang and Elizabeth Miller, Foreword by Michael Barsanti. Jefferson, NC & London: McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-3410-7

### Articles

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* "Recollections of the Late W. G. Wills", The Graphic, 19 December 1891
* "The Art of Ellen Terry", The Playgoer, October 1901
* "The Question of a National Theatre", The Nineteenth Century and After, Vol. LXIII, January/June 1908
* "Mr. De Morgan's Habits of Work", The World's Work, Vol. XVI, May/October 1908
* "The Censorship of Fiction", The Nineteenth Century and After, Vol. LXIV, July/December 1908
* "The Censorship of Stage Plays", The Nineteenth Century and After, Vol. LXVI, July/December 1909
* "Irving and Stage Lightning", The Nineteenth Century and After, Vol. LXIX, January/June 1911

### Critical works on Stoker

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* William Hughes, Beyond Dracula: Bram Stoker's Fiction and Its Cultural Context (Palgrave, 2000) ISBN 0-312-23136-9[62]
* Belford, Barbara. Bram Stoker: A Biography of the Author of Dracula. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1996.
* Hopkins, Lisa. Bram Stoker: A Literary Life. Basingstoke, England: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
* Murray, Paul. From the Shadow of Dracula: A Life of Bram Stoker (London: Jonathan Cape, 2004)
* Senf, Carol. Science and Social Science in Bram Stoker's Fiction (Greenwood, 2002).
* Senf, Carol. Dracula: Between Tradition and Modernism (Twayne, 1998).
* Senf, Carol A. Bram Stoker (University of Wales Press, 2010).
* Shepherd, Mike. When Brave Men Shudder: the Scottish origins of Dracula (Wild Wolf Publishing, 2018).
* Skal, David J. Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker (Liveright, 2016)

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Library resources about
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* Works by Bram Stoker in eBook form at Standard Ebooks
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* Works by Bram Stoker at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
* Works by Bram Stoker at Open Library
* h2g2 article on Bram Stoker
* Bram Stoker at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
* Archival material at Leeds University Library
* Bram Stoker at IMDb
* Bram Stoker at Library of Congress, with 219 library catalogue records

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Bram Stoker

Novels|

* The Primrose Path (1875)
* The Snake's Pass (1890)
* The Watter's Mou' (1895)
* The Shoulder of Shasta (1895)
* Dracula (1897)
* Miss Betty (1898)
* The Mystery of the Sea (1902)
* The Jewel of Seven Stars (1903)
* The Man (1905)
* Lady Athlyne (1908)
* The Lady of the Shroud (1909)
* The Lair of the White Worm (1911)

Short story collections|

* Under the Sunset (1881)
* Snowbound: The Record of a Theatrical Touring Party (1908)
* Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories (1914)
* "Dracula's Guest"

Non-fiction|

* Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (1906)
* Famous Impostors (1910)

Related|

* Charlotte Stoker (mother)
* Florence Stoker (wife)
* Thornley Stoker (brother)
* William Thomson (brother-in-law)
* Bram Stoker Award

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Bram Stoker's Dracula

Universe

| Characters|

* Count Dracula
* Abraham Van Helsing
* Jonathan Harker
* Mina Harker
* Lucy Westenra
* Arthur Holmwood
* Dr. John Seward
* Quincey Morris
* Renfield
* Brides of Dracula

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Publications|

* Dracula (1897)
* Powers of Darkness (1899)
* Icelandic
* "Dracula's Guest" (1914)
* Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories (1914)

| Dacre Stoker|

* Dracula the Un-dead (2009)
* Dracul (2018)

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Possible inspirations|

* Vlad II Dracul
* Vlad Călugărul
* Vlad the Impaler

Castles|

* Castle Dracula
* Bran Castle
* Poenari Castle
* Corvin Castle

Films

| Universal
productions|

* Universal series
* (Dracula (1931 English-language) Dracula's Daughter (1936) Son of Dracula (1943) House of Frankenstein (1944) House of Dracula (1945))
* Dracula (1931 Spanish-language)
* Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

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Hammer Horror|

* Dracula (1958)
* The Brides of Dracula (1960)
* Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)
* Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968)
* Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970)
* Scars of Dracula (1970)
* Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972)
* The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973)
* The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974)

Dracula 2000|

* Dracula 2000 (2000)
* Dracula II: Ascension (2003)
* Dracula III: Legacy (2005)

Nosferatu films|

* Nosferatu (1922)
* Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
* Vampire in Venice (1988)
* Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
* Nosferatu (2023)
* Nosferatu (2024)

Hotel
Transylvania |

* Hotel Transylvania (2012)
* Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015)
* Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018)
* Hotel Transylvania: Transformania (2022)

Parodies|

* Transylvania 6-5000 (1963)
* Mad Monster Party? (1967)
* Batman Fights Dracula (1967)
* Dracula (The Dirty Old Man) (1969)
* Mad Mad Mad Monsters (1972)
* Blood for Dracula (1974)
* Vampira (1974)
* Son of Dracula (1974)
* Dracula in the Provinces (1975)
* Dracula and Son (1976)
* Dracula Sucks (1979)
* Love at First Bite (1979)
* The Halloween That Almost Wasn't (1979)
* Fracchia contro Dracula (1985)
* Transylvania 6-5000 (1985)
* The Monster Squad (1987)
* Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf (1988)
* Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)
* Monster Mash (1995)
* Monster Mash (2000)
* Zora the Vampire (2000)
* Monster Family (2017)

Other|

* Drakula halála (1923)
* The Return of the Vampire (1943)
* Drakula İstanbul'da (1953)
* Blood of Dracula (1957)
* The Return of Dracula (1958)
* Batman Dracula (1964)
* Billy the Kid Versus Dracula (1966)
* Blood of Dracula's Castle (1969)
* Santo en el tesoro de Drácula (1969)
* Count Dracula (1970)
* Los Monstruos del Terror (1970)
* Cuadecuc, vampir (1971)
* Vampyros Lesbos (1971)
* Hrabe Drakula (1971)
* Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971)
* Blacula (1972)
* Scream Blacula Scream (1973)
* Bram Stoker's Dracula (1974)
* Count Dracula's Great Love (1974)
* Deafula (1975)
* Dracula's Dog (1977)
* Count Dracula (1977)
* Doctor Dracula (1978)
* Dracula (1979)
* Nocturna: Granddaughter of Dracula (1979)
* Dracula: Sovereign of the Damned (1980)
* Dracula's Widow (1988)
* To Die For (1989)
* Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat (1989)
* Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
* Nadja (1994)
* Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula (2000)
* Bara no Konrei ~Mayonaka ni Kawashita Yakusoku~ (2001)
* Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (2002)
* Dracula (2002)
* Van Helsing (2004)
* Van Helsing: The London Assignment (2004)
* The Vulture's Eye (2004)
* Dracula 3000 (2004)
* Blade: Trinity (2004)
* The Batman vs. Dracula (2005)
* Bram Stoker's Dracula's Curse (2006)
* Dracula (2006)
* Bram Stoker's Dracula's Guest (2008)
* The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice (2008)
* House of the Wolf Man (2009)
* Young Dracula (2011)
* Dracula Reborn (2012)
* Dracula 3D (2012)
* Saint Dracula 3D (2012)
* Dracula 2012 (2013)
* Dracula: The Dark Prince (2013)
* Dracula Untold (2014)
* The Invitation (2022)
* Renfield (2023)
* The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023)
* Abigail (2024)
* Dracula: A Love Tale (TBA)

Television

| Series|

* Monster Squad (1976)
* Draculas ring (1978)
* Cliffhangers (1979)
* Drak Pack (1980)
* Count Duckula (1988–1993)
* Dracula: The Series (1990–1991)
* Little Dracula (1991–1999)
* Monster Force (1994)
* Ace Kilroy (2011–2012)
* Young Dracula (2006–2014)
* characters
* Dracula (2013–2014)
* Penny Dreadful (2014–2016)
* Decker (2014–2017)
* Van Helsing (2016–21)
* Hotel Transylvania: The Series (2017–2020)
* Castlevania (2017–21)
* Dracula (2020)

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Episodes|

* "Dracula" (Mystery and Imagination) (1968)
* "Buffy vs. Dracula" (2000)
* Young Dracula episodes (2006–2014)
* Penny Dreadful episodes (2014–2016)
* Hotel Transylvania: The Series episodes (2017–2020)

| The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror|

* "Treehouse of Horror IV" (1993)
* "Treehouse of Horror XXI" (2010)

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Other media

| Novels|

* The Dracula Tape and sequels (1975–2002)
* Anno Dracula series (1992–present)
* Anno Dracula
* The Bloody Red Baron
* Dracula Cha Cha Cha
* The Revenge of Dracula (1978)
* Little Dracula (1986)
* Dracula the Undead (1997)
* The Historian (2005)
* The Book of Renfield (2005)
* Bloodline (2005)
* Young Dracula and Young Monsters (2006)
* Fangland (2007)
* Out of the Dark (2010)

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Radio|

* Dracula (1938)

Plays|

* Dracula (1924)
* Dracula (1995)
* Dracula (1996)

Musicals|

* Dracula (Czech musical) (1995)
* Dracula: A Chamber Musical (1997)
* Dracula, the Musical (2004)
* Dracula – Entre l'amour et la mort (2006)
* Dracula – L'amour plus fort que la mort (2011)

Comics|

* Crossover
* Dracula (Marvel Comics)
* The Tomb of Dracula
* X-Men: Apocalypse vs. Dracula
* Captain Britain and MI13: Vampire State
* Mrs. Deadpool and the Howling Commandos
* Dracula (Dell Comics)
* Don Dracula
* Dracula Lives!
* Hellsing
* Sword of Dracula
* Batman & Dracula trilogy
* Victorian Undead
* Wolves at the Gate
* Purgatori

Video games|

* The Count (1979)
* Dracula (1983)
* Ghost Manor (1983)
* Castlevania series
* 1986–present
* Dracula
* Dracula (1986)
* Dracula the Undead (1991)
* Drac's Night Out (unreleased)
* Bram Stoker's Dracula (1993)
* Bram Stoker's Dracula (handheld) (1993)
* Dracula Unleashed (1993)
* Dracula: Resurrection (2000)
* Dracula 2: The Last Sanctuary (2000)
* Dracula: Crazy Vampire (2001)
* Van Helsing (2004)
* Dracula 3: The Path of the Dragon (2008)
* Dracula: Origin (2008)
* Vampire Season Monster Defense (2012)
* Dracula 4: The Shadow of the Dragon (2013)
* Dracula 5: The Blood Legacy (2013)
* The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing (2013)
* Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood (2023)

Pinball|

* Dracula (1979)
* Taxi (1988)
* Bram Stoker's Dracula (1993)
* Monster Bash (1998)

Tabletop games|

* The Fury of Dracula

Albums|

* Dracula
* Dracula 2000
* Iubilaeum Anno Dracula 2001
* Perfect Selection: Dracula Battle
* Transylvania
* Van Helsing

Songs|

* "Love Song for a Vampire"

Audio dramas|

* Son of the Dragon

Original characters

| Alternative versions
of Dracula|

* Alucard (Hellsing)
* Count Alucard
* Dracula (Castlevania)
* Dracula (Marvel Comics)
* Count Orlok
* Soma Cruz

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Relatives of Dracula|

* Alucard (Castlevania)
* Vampire Hunter D
* Eva
* Janus Dracula
* Lilith Dracula
* Shiklah Dracula

Other|

* Blade
* Count von Count
* Simon Belmont

Related

* Lugosi v. Universal Pictures
* Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories
* Count Dracula in popular culture
* Transylvanian Society of Dracula
* Dracula Daily
* Dracula Society
* Dracula tourism
* Bibliography of works on Dracula

* Category (Dracula)
* Category (derivatives)

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Film adaptations of Bram Stoker's The Jewel of Seven Stars

* Blood from the Mummy's Tomb
* The Awakening
* The Tomb
* Bram Stoker's Legend of the Mummy
* House of Ka

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Artists|

* MusicBrainz
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People|

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