Bram Stoker, despite having a name nearly as famous as Count
Dracula, has remained an enigma. David J. Skal, in a psychological
and cultural portrait, exhumes the inner world and strange genius
of the writer who conjured an undying cultural icon. Stoker was
inexplicably paralysed as a boy and his story unfolds against a
backdrop of Victorian medical mysteries and horrors: fever, opium
abuse, bloodletting, quack cures and the obsession with "bad blood"
that inform every page of Dracula. Stoker's ambiguous sexuality is
explored through his acquaintance with Oscar Wilde, who emerges as
Stoker's repressed shadow self-a doppelganger worthy of a Gothic
novel. The psychosexual dimensions of Stoker's correspondence with
Walt Whitman, his punishing work ethic and his adoration of the
actor Henry Irving are examined in scholarly detail.
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