An evening with Dacre Stoker
Dacre Stoker is the great grand-nephew of Bram Stoker and the international bestselling co-author of Dracula the Un-Dead (2009), and Dracul (2018). Dacre is also the co-editor of The Lost Journal of Bram Stoker: The Dublin Years (2012). Dacre is a native of Montreal, he has participated in the sport of Modern Pentathlon as an athlete and a coach at the international and Olympic levels for Canada for 12 years. Dacre has consulted and appeared in recent film documentaries about vampires in literature and popular culture. The Real Vampire Files (2010 History Channel), The Tillinghast Nightmare, (2014 Historical Haunts), Secrets of the Dead (2015 PBS), Mysteries at the Museum, (2017 Travel Channel) Legend Hunter (2019 Travel Channel) American Vampires (2022 Fox Nation).
Dacre Stoker’s compelling and informative Keynote presentation, Stoker on Stoker, the Mysteries Behind the Research and Writing of Dracula, weaves together the details of Dracula’s history with Stoker family lore, and Bram Stoker’s life in Dublin and London, then separates fact from popular fiction, revealing the truth about all things Stoker and Dracula.
Stoker on Stoker has fascinated audiences around the world, exploring the issues behind the mysteries that have baffled Dracula scholars and fans since the book’s publication in 1897. Illustrated with Dacre’s collection of never before published, and seldom-seen historic images.
Including these topics:
• Bram Stokers notes for the writing of Dracula
• Books Bram used for his research from the London Library
• The Dracula Typescript
• Real locations Bram chose to include in Dracula
• The location of Bram’s fictional Castle Dracula and other sites mentioned in Transylvania
• Bram’s summer holiday in Whitby in 1890 how he incorporated real sites in chapters 6, 7, 8 of Dracula.
• Bram in Cruden Bay Scotland, where he wrote parts of Dracula
• Dr William Thornley Stoker functioned as Bram’s medical advisor to insure accuracy in his writing of Dracula
And much more….
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