Bram Stoker Research Paper

Abraham "Bram" Stoker born in to a lower class family in Clontarf, Dublin, Republic of Ireland on november 8 1847,his parents names are Abraham Stoker and mother Charlotte Matilda Blake Thornley Stoker.Bram imagination was fuelled by stories his mother told him as a kid ,which sparked his interest in Irish folklore and the supernatural.Bram went on to become one of his most successful themes of writings.Bram is one of 7 children at least four of which were brothers;He was confined to bed until the age of 7 from a illness which was never uncovered or known by doctors at the time but full recovered .He enrolled at the University of Dublin which they also called Trinity College, stoker was a member of the University’s Philosophical Society

who ended up being a very large influence on Stoker’s creative life and had a lot to do with the spark of dracula.years after sheridan wrote Carmilla which was about a female vampire preying on a lonely, elderly woman which seems to lay the foundation for the vampire fiction, Bram still found time to write his short stories. He left the dublin castle after 10 years and met a very good friend named irving which was a big step for bram’s writing career. Shakespearean play Hamlet which irving was in.Irving soon gave a management job offer.which gave bram endless work sometimes over 50 letters a day and traveling but in the misk of all the work he manage to marry an actress named Florence Balcombe who delivered to their son, Irving Noel Thornley, in the late 1879. In bram stoker's life time he wrote and published 12 novels most in gothic style

In 1901 Stoker was on vacation and met an old woman who had “supernatural powers”. This woman was the basis for Gormala,which is major a character with psychic abilities who is one of the main characters.'The Lady of the Shroud' A guy gets an inheritance under one condition: He has to spend a year in his uncle’s castle. Based on a real story he then falls in love with a mysterious woman who shows up in the castle and is possibly a supernatural. 'The Lady of the Shroud' is written in the epistolary style, which is a big word to say it is made of documents ,letters, and diary entries.this is the motivation for about half of Scooby-Doo's story line. 'The Shoulder of Shasta' It was written after Stoker toured The United States his best friend and partner Henry Irving, an actor who was a heavy physical and spiritual influence on the character of Count Dracula. 'The Snake’s Pass' which is based on A romantic thriller in his style which was gothic , Basically a man and a female fall in love,but like the normal triesome plot twist of complications.Do not judge this book by its cover many people underestimate this book but it is one of stokers best thrillers before dracula Originally published,1890.'Seven Golden Buttons' can be described as a dark fairytale involving a love that disregards the boundaries of life and death.when written by bram he wrote it on on index cards. It wasn’t until 2015