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

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David J. Skal

Something in the Blood

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

David J. Skal

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English

Liveright
04 November 2016

Biography; Biography: literary

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. Stoker's ambiguous sexuality is explored through his acquaintance with Oscar Wilde, who emerges as Stoker's repressed shadow self - a doppelganger worthy of a Gothic novel. The psychosexual dimensions of Stoker's correspondence with Walt Whitman, his punishing work ethic and his adoration of the actor Henry Irving are examined in scholarly detail.

By: David J. Skal
Imprint: Liveright
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 244mm, Width: 165mm, Spine: 53mm
Weight: 1.109kg
ISBN: 9781631490101
ISBN 10: 1631490109
Pages: 672
Publication Date: 04 November 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

David J. Skal is a leading American cultural historian and critic of horror film and literature. The author of The Monster Show and Hollywood Gothic, he lives in Glendale, California