Stoker, Bram

Stoker, Bram ( Abraham Stoker ) ( 1847 – 1912 ),
born in Dublin. He gave up his career as a civil servant there in 1878 to become Sir H. Irving 's secretary and touring manager for the next 27 years, an experience that produced Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving ( 1906 ). Stoker wrote a number of novels and short stories, as well as some dramatic criticism, but is chiefly remembered for Dracula ( 1897 ), a tale of vampirism influenced by ‘Carmilla’, one of the stories in Le Fanu's In a Glass Darkly ( 1872 ).