Bram Stoker

The Dualitists (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Abraham Stoker (1847-1912), better known by his pen name Bram Stoker, was an Irish theatre manager, writer, novelist and Freemason. He became famous as the author of Dracula (1897), an epistolary Gothic horror novel widely considered a landmark in vampire literature. The work deeply influenced future representations of fictional vampiric characters, and Stoker came to be regarded by many as "the father of vampire fiction". The Dualitists; or, the Death Doom of the Double Born, the short horror story by Bram Stoker which we offer to our readers today, was published for the first time in November 1886 in the 1887 issue of The Theatre Annual. Often cited as an example of one of Bram Stoker's favorite themes, male bonding, the story evokes a world of youthful adventure stories. As in much of Stoker's fiction, the driving force in this story stems from an innate male lust for violence. Two boys, Harry Merford and Tommy Santon, receive identical knives as a Christmas gift. Armed with these symbols of virility, self-control, and mastery, the boys test their weapons by "smashing" them against each other like swordsmen. The ending is horrifying.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edizioni Aurora Boreale
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9791223966587
• Artikelnr.: 75502118

Autorenporträt

Bram Stoker (1847-1912) was an Irish novelist. Born in Dublin, Stoker suffered from an unknown illness as a young boy before entering school at the age of seven. He would later remark that the time he spent bedridden enabled him to cultivate his imagination, contributing to his later success as a writer. He attended Trinity College, Dublin from 1864, graduating with a BA before returning to obtain an MA in 1875. After university, he worked as a theatre critic, writing a positive review of acclaimed Victorian actor Henry Irving's production of Hamlet that would spark a lifelong friendship and working relationship between them. In 1878, Stoker married Florence Balcombe before moving to London, where he would work for the next 27 years as business manager of Irving's influential Lyceum Theatre. Between his work in London and travels abroad with Irving, Stoker befriended such artists as Oscar Wilde, Walt Whitman, Hall Caine, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In 1895, having published several works of fiction and nonfiction, Stoker began writing his masterpiece Dracula (1897) while vacationing at the Kilmarnock Arms Hotel in Cruden Bay, Scotland. Stoker continued to write fiction for the rest of his life, achieving moderate success as a novelist. Known more for his association with London theatre during his life, his reputation as an artist has grown since his death, aided in part by film and television adaptations of Dracula, the enduring popularity of the horror genre, and abundant interest in his work from readers and scholars around the world.