* 1912 – Bram Stoker, Irish author ( b. 1847 )

Other influential writers and playwrights include Oscar Wilde, Jonathan Swift and the creator of Dracula, Bram Stoker.

* Carrion Comfort ( 1989 ) – Bram Stoker Award winner 1989 ; British Fantasy Award winner, World Fantasy Award nominee, 1990

Bram Stoker Award

Dan Simmons has been nominated on numerous occasions in a range of categories for his fiction, including the Arthur C. Clarke Award, Bram Stoker Award, British Fantasy Society Award, Hugo Award, Nebula Award, and World Fantasy Award.

In the late 19th century, Bram Stoker released one of the most widely recognized and successful novels in the epistolary form to date, Dracula.

* Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement, 1996

The most famous Gothic villain ever, Count Dracula was created by Bram Stoker in his novel Dracula ( 1897 ).

The Horror Writer's Association presents the Bram Stoker Awards for Superior Achievement, named in honor of Bram Stoker, author of the seminal horror novel Dracula.

Friends such as Bram Stoker defended his " psychological " reading, based on the supposition that Macbeth had dreamed of killing Duncan before the start of the play.

* 1897 – Dracula, a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker is published.

This is usually justified as a second hand account of events as told to credited authors Bram Stoker and Mary Shelley although the general public continues to believe them as fictional.

* 1847 – Bram Stoker, Irish novelist ( d. 1912 )

King acknowledges the influence of Bram Stoker, particularly on his novel Salem's Lot, which he envisioned as a retelling of Dracula.

* Bram Stoker Award

This story was to greatly influence Bram Stoker in the writing of Dracula.

Bram Stoker considered using the title The Un-Dead for his novel Dracula ( 1897 ), and use of the term in the novel is mostly responsible for the modern sense of the word.

This attribute, although not universal ( the Greek vrykolakas / tympanios was capable of both reflection and shadow ), was used by Bram Stoker in Dracula and has remained popular with subsequent authors and filmmakers.

Varney was a major influence on later vampire fiction, particularly Dracula ( 1897 ) by Bram Stoker.

* April 20 – Bram Stoker, Irish writer ( Dracula ) ( b. 1847 ).

* May 26 – Dracula, a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, is published.

May 18, Dracula by Bram Stoker.

In 1910 Bram Stoker ( the author of Dracula ), published a book of nonfiction called Famous Impostors which deals with the subject of exposing various impostors and hoaxes.

First published in October 1992, Anno Dracula has won the Dracula Society's Children of the Night Award, the Lord Ruthven Assembly's Fiction Award, and the International Horror Guild Award for Best Novel, and was short-listed for the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel.

In 1906 Bram Stoker ( the author of Dracula ), published a two volume biography about Henry Irving called Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving.

He went on to create book covers, become a comics historian who published a pioneering two-volume history of the birth and early years of comic books, and to create conceptual art and character designs for films including Raiders of the Lost Ark and Bram Stoker's Dracula.

His first published fiction book was the 2001 novella Northern Gothic ( Soft Skull ), which was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction in 2002.

This novel was nominated for both the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel and the International Horror Guild Award for Best First Novel in 2005, and made the Locus Magazine Recommended Reading List for books published in 2004.

Starve Better, a short how-to guide made up primarily of reprinted blog posts and essays from magazines such as The Smart Set and The Writer was published in 2011, and nominated for the Bram Stoker Award in the category of Achievement in Non-Fiction.

In 1897 Bram Stoker published Dracula.

The Jewel of Seven Stars is a horror novel by Bram Stoker, first published in 1903.

* Bram Stoker's novel, Dracula, is published for the first time.

* A giant rat plays a pivotal role in the Bram Stoker short story " The Judge's House " ( first published in 1914 ) in the collection Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories.

After it was published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 2001, it was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award.

Carmilla predates Bram Stoker's Dracula by 25 years, and has been adapted many times for cinema. Illustration from The Dark Blue by D. H. Friston, 1872

He is known for his roles as Westley in the cult classic The Princess Bride, Arthur Holmwood in Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula and for his role as Dr. Lawrence Gordon in Saw.

Elwes also appeared in such films as Francis Coppola's adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, The Crush, Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, Twister, Liar Liar, Cradle Will Rock, The Cat's Meow and Kiss the Girls.

There are three types of epistolary novels: monologic ( giving the letters of only one character, like Letters of a Portuguese Nun ), dialogic ( giving the letters of two characters, like Mme Marie Jeanne Riccoboni's Letters of Fanni Butlerd ( 1757 ), and polylogic ( with three or more letter-writing characters, such as in Bram Stoker's Dracula ).

* Bram Stoker's Dracula ( 1897 ) uses not only letters and diaries, but also dictation cylinders and newspaper accounts.

In 1992, Coppola directed and produced Bram Stoker's Dracula.

* Bram Stoker's novel Dracula is told in the form of numerous documents, including journals and newspaper articles.

: Bram Stoker's Dracula

Le Fanu's short story collection In a Glass Darkly ( 1872 ) includes the superlative vampire tale Carmilla, which provided fresh blood for that particular strand of the Gothic and influenced Bram Stoker's Dracula ( 1897 ).

The first vampire-themed movie was made during this time: F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu ( 1922 ), an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula.

The Gothic tradition continued in the 19th century, in such works as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ( 1818 ), Edgar Allan Poe's short stories, the works of Sheridan Le Fanu, Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ( 1886 ), Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray ( 1890 ), and Bram Stoker's Dracula ( 1897 ).

* In Bram Stoker's Dracula, several characters make phrenological observations in describing other characters, as does Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective Sherlock Holmes.

In the English-speaking world, Vlad is best known for the exceedingly cruel punishments he imposed during his reign and for serving as the primary inspiration for the vampire main character in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula.

He has worked as a composer for movies and musical plays and has acted in supporting roles in films including Paradise Alley and Bram Stoker's Dracula ; he also starred in the 1986 film Down by Law.

This marked the first in a series of collaborations between Waits and Coppola, with Waits appearing in cameos in Coppola's movies The Outsiders ( 1983 ), Rumble Fish ( 1983 ), and The Cotton Club ( 1984 ), and a major role in Bram Stoker's Dracula.

1992 also saw Waits featuring in Francis Ford Coppola's film Bram Stoker's Dracula, as the possessed lunatic Renfield.