Gibbet Hill
A newspaper supplement held a story absent from established accounts of Bram’s work. Discover Brian Cleary’s find and the route from an 1890 publication to new readers.
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Articles
Explore Bram Stoker’s life and work through letters, pictures and contemporary accounts. These articles explain what the sources tell us, where they survive and what remains uncertain.
The Lost Journal
A notebook preserved among family papers reveals observations and ideas from Bram’s early working years. Read about its emergence and publication.
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Bram and the sea
Follow the coasts, crossings and maritime stories that recur through Bram’s life.
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Bram’s obituaries in 1912: a reputation already being debated
Explore the contrasting notices and tributes published after Bram’s death.
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Remembering Noel Stoker
A grandson’s recollections of books, journeys and family generosity.
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The Complex Legacy of Dracula
W. Parker considers the relationship between Bram’s novel and the many forms taken by Dracula in popular culture.
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How Dracula came to be studied
An Estate perspective on the growth of Dracula’s reputation and scholarship.
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How Bram’s widow took the makers of an unauthorised film to court, and why the film survived.
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An evening backstage with Bram
John Buck’s Edinburgh diary from 1887 records an evening that leads from a hotel and dinner to a theatre box and a backstage meeting with Henry Irving and Ellen Terry.
A visitor at Becket
A letter from Bram to Helen Allingham dated 27 January 1893 survives at the University of Illinois with an annotation on the reverse about meeting Irving and Ellen Terry backstage.
What it cost to run the Lyceum
Agreements and receipts show the business behind a production.
Readers and friendships
A reader in New Zealand
A letter from H H Murdoch in Hastings, Hawke’s Bay, records an early response to Dracula from New Zealand.
Manuscripts in different collections
One book in several archives
Material for Famous Impostors survives in Dublin and Philadelphia.