It would be impossible to imagine the horror genre if it hadn’t been influenced by Bram Stoker’s work. Vampires wouldn’t be as embedded in popular culture as they are today if his pioneering Dracula novel hadn’t popularised the bloodsuckers and created a legion of adaptations and offshoots.
Born in 1847 in Dublin, Ireland, Stoker’s road to success wasn’t easy. He suffered from a life-threatening illness at an early age and was riddled with a succession of illnesses in his later years. During his early career, Stoker worked with Henry Irving, one of the most esteemed actors of his time. He had many famous acquaintances, including the likes of Oscar Wilde and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
During a visit to England’s Whitby, Stoker was inspired to write the novel that he is most famous for, Dracula. Today would have marked his 168th birthday.
SELECTED QUOTES
“How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.”
“There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.”
“No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.”
“Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.”
“Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.”
“I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.”
“Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker”
“A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.”
“Despair has its own calms.”
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