Bram Stoker & Vlad Tepes. 브란 성(Castelul Bran. Bran Castle. 드라큘라 성). 브란(Bran)

Bram Stoker & Vlad Tepes.

브란 성(Castelul Bran. Bran Castle. 드라큘라 성).

브란(Bran). 루마니아(Romania)

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"Vlad The Impaler III" (1431-1476)

anonymous painter, beginning of 16th century.

Offered by Kunsthistorisches Museum, Schloss Ambrass, Tirol, Austria.

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Bram Stoker

- Son of Charlotte, Matilda Blake Thrrnely and Abraham Stoker, Bram Stoker was born on 8th November, 1847 in a district from Dublin, Ireland.

- He was the third child of seven of the Blake Thornely-Stoker couple and he had suffered from a severe anemia ever since early childhood, which kept him in be during the whole primary school.

- Mr. Abraham Stoker was a civil servant and managed to provide his family a comfortable existence. So that he sent his son, the sickly Bram, to The Trinity College, a provate high school in Dublin. There, he succeeded in getting over his health problems caused by anemia with Reverend Viiliams Woods' help and began to practice athletics winning several major titles.

- After college graduation, Bram Stoker attended the faculty of mathematics, in order to follow his father's career, that of a civil servant of Dublin's administration. He even did that immediately after his graduation, becoming a civil servant for a short while.

- Exactly after his faculty graduation he was elected president of Dublin's Society of Philosophy.

- This was the moment when he felt attracted by the world of theater, becoming one of the loyal spectators of the Royal Theater in Dublin.

- He was influenced by his good friend, Dr Mansuell, who paved his way towards theater critics.

- Bram Stoker began writing theater reviews in the Dublin Eveing Mail newspaper. His reviews were immediately noticed and one of them, that about Hamlet with the famous actor Henry Trving, made them inseparable friends. Thus Bram Stoker Trving's manager.

- Bram Stoker moved to London, where he believed there were more apportunities and freedom of ｅxpression. He got hired at the Drama High School in London, where he taught for 30 years. Obviously, he is followed by his good friend, Trving, and Bram managed to find him a place in a London theater.

- He began to write theater plays : The Slim Sirens, Mick, The Devil, The Star Trap.

- He got married to Florence Balcombe, an actress and they had a son : Trving Noel Thornely.

- At that time the young actress Florence was courted by the famous writer of the age, Oscar Wilde, but she prefered Bram, and fortunately their friendship managed to remain untouched.

- He became famous in England, and in this way he got to know Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Williams Butler Yeats and Walt Whitman, his idol from The United States.

- He travelled in Europe and the United States. The American President, Theodore Roosevelt, welcomed him at the White House. He never visited the Eastern Europe.

- During this period he wrote : "A Glimpse of America", "Primrose Path", 1875, "The Snake's Pass", 1890, Miss Betty, 1898 and many others.

- He wrote using supernatural elements, horrors, hypnosis, strange creatures, ghosts, unexplained events very useful for the book that would make him famous: "Dracula".

- He used to go fishing on short holidays in the village of Whitby, Yorkshire, place that inspired him for "Dracula".

- He wrote the well known "Lady Athelyne" and "Famous Impostors". But only Dracula made him universal managing to become the second book wver published in the world, after the Bible.

- Bram Stoker died in London in 1922, because of a stroke, He was incinerated at Golders Green Crermatory. His son, Noel, died in 1961 and was incinerated in the same place.

- Bram's wife continued the live and in 1922 published "Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories".

- Bram Stoker might have been inspired while writting Dracula by the Irish writer Joseph Sheridan, whose main character in the novel "Carmilla", 1872, is a vampire.

- Various film versions of the novel have been made following Dracula's world wide success. The first one was made in 1922 and was called "Nosferatu", directed by Wilhelm Murnau, the film in which, as the copyright from Bram's wife had not been obtained, Dracula, who was interpreted by Max Schreck, was replaced by Count Orlock.

- Mrs. Florence Stoker undertook legal proceedings and managed to regain the copyright over the film. Thus the next film, made by the Universal Studio, 1931, with Hungarian Bela Lugosi as a leading actor, was the first authorized version of the famous character Dracula, which is now part of the universal history.

- Bram Stoker left behind numerous novels and stories:

1. The Primrose Path. 1875

2. The Snake's Pass, 1890

3. Dracular, 1897

4. Miss Betty, 1898

5. The Mystery of the Sea, 1902

6. Lady Panza, 1909

7. "Bridal of Dead", "Buried Treasures", "Lord Castleton's Explains", The Man from Shorrex", "Midnight Tales"

and non-fiction:

"A Glimpse of America", 1879

"Famous Impostors", 1910

Dracula By Bram Stoker Synopsis

The Mysteries of Vlad

The Impaler's Death"

Assassinated or Killed by mistake ?

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