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

”I long to go through the crowded streets of your mighty London, to be in the midst of the whirl and rush of humanity, to share its life, its change, its death, and all that makes it what it is.” ---Count Dracula I’ve never known much about Bram Stoker. He always seems to be in the shadow cast by......more

There is a Bram Stoker shaped hole at the centre of this book. For a biography that claims to explore the inner world of the man himself, I learned an awful lot about almost everything else in his life except him. Partly, no doubt, that is because Stoker was a very private man and his descendants ha......more

Aún no sé si darle 3.5 🌟 o 4, por lo entretenido (David J. Skal escribe de una forma muy amena) y lo bien documentado que está. Ya lo decidiré en las siguientes semanas. Es un libro algo "chismoso", centrado en la sexualidad supuestamente ambigua de Bran Stoker, mediante su contraste con Óscar Wilde......more

Faktiem un interesantiem notikumiem pilna rakstnieka B. Stokera biogrāfija. Iesaku visiem, kurus interesē vēsturiskais fons un notikumi, kas rosināja Stokera iztēli "Drakulas" tapšanas proccesā.......more