Dracula and the Saints

I have recently read and enjoyed two quite different books by Giles Morgan in the Pocket Essentials series. The one on Siants usefully takes you through the various well known "saints" and gives some of the background to the subject. The one on Dracula foocusses on Bram Stoker's work but gives the background and brings things up todate with a history of Dracula in the cinema. Fascinating books both.

Novelists 33 Bram Stoker

Abraham "Bram" Stoker (1847 – 1912) was an Irish novelist and short story writer, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula which I have to admit I have still never read right through. During his lifetime, he was better known as personal assistant of actor Henry Irving and business manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London, which Irving owned. He wrote four novels before Dracula and seven after but they are rather forgotten now. My son was in school and played football with twins (named after angels) who are descended from him.