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Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula
David J. Skal
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Description for Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula
Hardback. A ground-breaking biography revealing the haunted origins of the man who created Dracula. Num Pages: 448 pages, 100 illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
1118g
Number of Pages
672
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781631490101
SKU
V9781631490101
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About David J. Skal
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.
Reviews for Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula
He [David Skal] is surely successful in his efforts to revivify his subject and to reveal that even those shadows we think we know may contain obscurities that move of their own volition and which, tantalizingly, remain just out of sight.
The Times Literary Supplement ...Skal's knowledge of the byways of literary and theatrical history is prodigious. ... Read more
The Times Literary Supplement ...Skal's knowledge of the byways of literary and theatrical history is prodigious. ... Read more