Bram Stoker

Abraham «Bram» Stoker (8. november 1847–20. april 1912) var ein irsk forfattar. Han er best kjend for romanen Dracula frå 1897. I si eiga levetid var han best kjend som personleg assistent for skodespelaren Henry Irving og økonomisk ansvarleg ved Lyceum Theatre i London, som Irving åtte.

Bram Stoker
Statsborgarskap	Det sameinte kongeriket Storbritannia og Irland
Fødd	8. november 1847 Clontarf
Død	20. april 1912 (64 år) St George's Square
Yrke	skribent, journalist, romanforfattar, teaterkritiker, manusforfattar, kontorist, teatersjef
Sjanger	gotisk litteratur, skrekklitteratur
Far	Abraham Stoker
Ektefelle	Florence Balcombe
Born	Irving Stoker
Bram Stoker på Commons

Bibliografi

Romanar

• The Primrose Path (1875)
• The Snake's Pass (1890)
• Seven Golden Buttons (1891)
• The Watter's Mou' (1895)
• The Shoulder of Shasta (1895)
• Dracula (1897)
• Miss Betty (1898)
• The Mystery of the Sea (1902)
• The Jewel of Seven Stars (1903, revidert 1912)
• The Man (eller The Gates of Life, 1905)
• Lady Athlyne (1908)
• The Lady of the Shroud (1909)
• The Lair of the White Worm (eller The Garden of Evil) (1911 – posthumt forkorta i 1925)

Novellesamlingar

• Under the Sunset (1881), comprising eight fairy tales for children.
• Snowbound: The Record of a Theatrical Touring Party (1908)
• Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories (1914)

Noveller

(utgjevne sjølvstendig)

Tittel	Dato for første publisering	Første publisering	Romanform
"The Crystal Cup"	xx/09/1872	London Society (London)
"Buried Treasures"	13. mars 1875 og 20. mars 1875	The Shamrock (Dublin)
"The Chain of Destiny"	1. mai 1875 og 22. mai 1875	The Shamrock (Dublin)
"The Dualitists; or, The Death Doom of the Double Born"	xx/xx/1887	The Theatre Annual (London)
"The Gombeen Man"	xx/xx/1889 – xx/xx/1890	The People (London)	Kapittel 3 i The Snake's Pass
"Lucky Escapes of Sir Henry Irving"	xx/xx/1890
"The Night of the Shifting Bog"	xx/01/1891	New York)
"Lord Castleton Explains"	30. januar 1892	The Gentlewoman: The Illustrated Weekly Journal for Gentlewomen (London)	Kapittel 10 i The Fate of Fenella (Hutchinson, 1892)
"Old Hoggen: A Mystery"	xx/xx/1893
"The Man from Shorrox"	xx/02/1894	The Pall Mall Magazine (London)
"The Red Stockade"	xx/09/1894	The Cosmopolitan: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine (London)
"When the Sky Rains Gold"	xx/xx/1894
"At the Watter's Mou"	xx/11/1895	Current Literature: A Magazine of Record and Review Vol. XVIII. No. 5. (New York)
"Our New House"	20. desember 1895	Boston Herald (Boston)
"Bengal Roses"	xx/xx/1898
"A Yellow Duster"	7. mai 1899	Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper (London)
"A Young Widow"	xx/xx/1899
"A Baby Passenger"	xx/xx/1899
"The Seer"	xx/xx/1902	New York: Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday, Page & Co.)	Kapittel 1 og 2 i The Mystery of the Sea
"The Bridal of Death"	xx/xx/1903	The Jewel of the Seven Stars (London: William Heinemann)	Alternativ ending i The Jewel of Seven Stars
"What They Confessed: A Low Comedian's Story"	xx/xx/1908
"The Way of Peace"	xx/xx/1909	Everybody's Story Magazine (London)
"The 'Eroes of the Thames"	xx/10/1908	The Royal Magazine (London)
"Greater Love"	xx/10/1914	The London Magazine (London)

Sakprosa

• The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland (1879)
• A Glimpse of America (1886)
• Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (1906)
• Famous Impostors (1910)
• Great Ghost Stories (1998) (Compiled by Peter Glassman, Illustrated by Barry Moser)
• Bram Stoker's Notes for Dracula: A Facsimile Edition (2008) Bram Stoker Annotated and Transcribed by Robert Eighteen-Bisang and Elizabeth Miller (academic)|Elizabeth Miller, Foreword by Michael Barsanti. Jefferson, NC & London: McFarland & Company|McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-3410-7

Artiklar

• "The Question of a National Theatre" The Nineteenth Century and After, Vol. LXIII, januar/juni 1908.
• "Mr. De Morgan's Habits of Work" The World's Work, Vol. XVI, mai/oktober 1908.
• "The Censorship of Fiction" The Nineteenth Century and After, Vol. LXIV, juli/desember 1908.
• "The Censorship of Stage Plays" The Nineteenth Century and After, Vol. LXVI, juli/desember 1909.
• "Irving and Stage Lightning" The Nineteenth Century and After, Vol. LXIX, januar/juni 1911.

Filmatiseringar

(utval)

• F.W. Murnau: Nosferatu - Eine Symhonie des Grauens (1927), Max Schreck som Graf Orlok.
• Tod Browning: Dracula (1931), Bela Lugosi som grev Dracula.
• Terence Fisher: Dracula (1958), Christopher Lee som grev Dracula.
• Werner Herzog: Nosferatu - Nattens vampyr (1979), Klaus Kinski som grev Dracula.
• Francis Ford Coppola: Bram Stokers Dracula (1992), Gary Oldman som grev Dracula.
• Mel Brooks: Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995), Leslie Nielsen som grev Dracula.

Kjelder

• Denne artikkelen bygger på «Bram Stoker» frå Wikipedia på engelsk, den 9. april 2019.

Bakgrunnsstoff

• Bram Stoker, kort biografi
• Prosjekt Gutenberg e-texts av nokon av Bram Stokers verkar

Verk om Stoker

• William Hughes, Beyond Dracula (Palgrave, 2000) ISBN 0-312-23136-9
• Belford, Barbara. Bram Stoker: A Biography of the Author of Dracula. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1996.
• Senf, Carol. Science and Social Science in Bram Stoker's Fiction (Greenwood, 2002).
• Senf, Carol. Dracula: Between Tradition and Modernism (Twayne, 1998).
• Senf, Carol A. Bram Stoker (University of Wales Press, 2010).
• Skal, David J. Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker (Liveright, 2016)

Bibliografiar

• William Hughes Bram Stoker – Victorian Fiction Research Guide