Abraham Stoker (November 8, 1847 – April 20, 1912) was an Irish author, best known today for his 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula. During his lifetime, he was better known as the personal assistant of actor Sir Henry Irving and business manager of the Lyceum Theatre, which Irving owned. Before writing Dracula, Stoker worked as a theatre critic for an Irish newspaper and wrote stories . He married Florence Balcombe and had one child with her. Stoker also enjoyed travelling, particularly to Cruden Bay where he set two of his novels. In travelling, Stoker went to the English coastal town of Whitby which, in part, inspired his famous work Dracula. He died on 20 April, 1912 of "Locomotor ataxia 6 months" and was then cremated. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bram Stoker, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Bram Stoker was an Irish author and theatre manager of the Victorian era, best known worldwide for creating the foundational vampire novel Dracula.
He is primarily known for writing the 1897 Gothic novel Dracula and managing the historic Lyceum Theatre in London.
His writing focused on Gothic fiction, epistolary novels, and dark supernatural themes.
He is closely associated with London's Lyceum Theatre where he worked as business manager for many years.
