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Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula

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By (author): David J. Skal

Bram Stoker, despite having a name nearly as famous as Count Dracula, has remained an enigma. David J. Skal, in a psychological and cultural portrait, exhumes the inner world and strange genius of the writer who conjured an undying cultural icon. Stoker was inexplicably paralysed as a boy and his story unfolds against a backdrop of Victorian medical mysteries and horrors: fever, opium abuse, bloodletting, quack cures and the obsession with bad blood that inform every page of Dracula. Stokers ambiguous sexuality is explored through his acquaintance with Oscar Wilde, who emerges as Stokers repressed shadow selfa doppelgänger worthy of a Gothic novel. The psychosexual dimensions of Stokers correspondence with Walt Whitman, his punishing work ethic and his adoration of the actor Henry Irving are examined in scholarly detail. See more
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  • Weight: 905g
  • Dimensions: 147 x 226mm
  • Publication Date: 31 Oct 2017
  • Publisher: WW Norton & Co
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781631493867

About David J. Skal

David J. Skal was one of the worlds preeminent authorities on Bram Stoker Dracula and monsters in popular culture. His book Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen (Norton 1990) was hailed as the ultimate book on Dracula by Newsweek; The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror (Norton 1993) has had multiple translations and is widely considered the standard historical and critical survey. As a filmmaker he wrote produced and directed a dozen DVD and Blu-ray documentaries on Universals classic horror and science fiction films as well as a behind-the-scenes chronicle of the Academy Awardwinning film Gods and Monsters. Skal guest-lectured extensively at major colleges universities and cultural organizations in North America and Europe with speaking engagements at sites such as the Huntington Library the British Library and the Musée du Louvre. He additionally taught courses based on his books at the University of Victoria and Trinity College Dublin where he was also appointed a Long Room Hub Visiting Research Fellow for Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker (Liveright 2016) chosen by the Mystery Writers of America as a 2017 Edgar Award finalist for biography and criticism. His official website was monstershow.net.

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