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| Title | : | Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.47 (545 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1631490109 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 672 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-12 |
| Language | : | English |
“Sharply written, well-researched (with judicious use of recent discoveries), attentive to detail, and entertaining to read. Skal’s is the finest, most balanced biography of Bram Stoker yet written.” (Sir Christopher Frayling, author of Vampyres: Lord Byron to Count Dracula and Nightmare: The Birth of Horror)
RANDEL said A MUST-READ FOR ANY FAN OF DRACULA. A couple of years ago, I came across the correspondence between Bram Stoker and Walt Whitman in Stoker's biography of Henry Irving and realized at once that Stoker was (without question) a gay man. I wondered at the time if any biographer had dealt with this aspect of Stoker's life. Well, here it is! A
David J. Skal is a leading American cultural historian and critic of horror films and Gothic literature. The author of The Monster Show and Hollywood Gothic, he lives in Glendale, California.
While destined to become best known for his legendary undead count, Bram Stoker would become a prolific writer, critic, and theater producer, rubbing shoulders with Henry Irving, Hall Caine, and Lady Jane Wilde and her salon setincluding her fated-to-be-infamous son Oscar.In this probing psychological and cultural portrait of the man who brought us one of the most memorable monsters in history, Skal reveals a lifetime spent wrestling with the greatest questions of an eraa time riddled by disease, competing attitudes toward sex and gender, and unprecedented scientific innovation accompanied by rising paranoia and crises of faith. In Something in the Blood, David J. Skal exhumes the inner world and strange genius of the writer who birthed an undying cultural icon, painting an astonishing portrait of the age in which Stoker was borna time when death was no metaphor but a constant threat easily imagined as a character existing in flesh and blood.Just as in his celebrated histories The Monster Show and Hollywood Gothic, Skal draws on a wealth of newly discovered documents with "the skills of a fine detective" (New York Times Book Review) to challenge much of our accepted wisdom about Dracula, Stoker, and the late Victorian age. Stoker’s battle resulted in a resilient modern
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