Irish · 1847–1912
Bram Stoker (1847–1912) was an Irish author who managed a London theatre for most of his life and wrote horror fiction in his spare time. His 1897 novel Dracula invented almost nothing — vampires had been in European folklore for centuries — but consolidated the myth into a definitive literary form that every subsequent vampire story is in conversation with. One novel, one myth, a hundred and twenty-five years of influence. Dracula is available to speed-read in warpread.app at 161,000 words.
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A Transylvanian count travels to England to spread his curse, and a small band of friends — armed with garlic, faith, and increasingly desperate science — set out to stop him. Told entirely through letters, journals, and telegrams, the novel still defines the vampire myth more than a century later.
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