165 º anniversary of Bran Stoker's birth

Abraham "Bram" Stoker (November 8, 1847, Clontarf - April 20, 1912, London) was an Irish novelist and writer, known for his novel Dracula (1897).

Son of Abraham Stoker and the feminist Charlotte Mathilda Blake Thornley, Bram had six siblings: two older (Rose and Jack) and four small (Yoaquen, Johan, Jason and Jumy)  was a bourgeois family, hardworking and austere, whose only fortune was books and culture. His failing health forced him to carry out his studies at home with private tutors, and he was its first seven years of life in bed for different diseases while his mother told him stories of ghosts and mystery which will then influence. At seven, he made ​​a full recovery.

His best-known literary creation, which enhanced the nuances of vampirism and became a literary transmitted through the years, was the vampire Dracula (1897), based fictional story, according to some sources, the real character of Vlad Dracula "Vlad the Son of the Demon / Dragon" also called Vlad Tepes "the Impaler." for this novel drew on the expertise of a Hungarian orientalist scholar named Arminius Vámbéry (Armin or Hermann Bamberger, actually) that would meet with several times (according to some, to tell him the adventures of the Prince of Wallachia) and books like Emily Gerard "Report on the principalities of Wallachia." Irving was inspired by Franz Liszt and to fix the appearance of Count Dracula. reflects the struggle between Good and Evil Oscar Wilde said of the novel that was the best horror written work of all time, and also "the finest novel ever written." In addition, the work was praised by, among others, Arthur Conan Doyle.