“I was naturally thoughtful and the leisure of long illness gave opportunity for many thoughts which were fruitful according to their kind in later years.” Decades later, Stoker suggested that his illness, the nature of which still remains a mystery, helped foster his interest in writing.
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“Certainly till I was about seven years old I never knew what it was to stand upright.” His earliest memories were of being carried somewhere-to the couch, to the bed, to a patch of grass outside. “In my babyhood I used, I understand, to be often at the point of death,” writes Stoker in his memoir. Born on November 8, 1847, he was the third of seven children to Charlotte and Abraham Stoker. The Bram Stoker who put pen to paper was a young man who had, in the previous decade, grown from a sickly boy into a brawny athlete. That letter, when Stoker finally mustered the courage to mail it, would begin an unexpected literary friendship that lasted until Whitman’s death. Late one night, cloaked in the comfort of darkness, Stoker poured his soul out to Whitman in a shockingly honest letter that described himself and his disposition. When he was twenty-two, Stoker read and fell in love with Walt Whitman’s poetry, finding solace and joy between the covers of Leaves of Grass.And, like many fans, he wanted the connection that he felt to Whitman to be real. The object of his adoration wasn’t a bloodsucking creature of the night, but an aging American poet who had scandalized America. Nor were there websites and message boards where you could check for the latest news about your sparkly vampire crush 24/7.īut Stoker wasn’t immune to the lure of fandom. In his day, there weren’t fans declaring their allegiance to characters with “Team Dracula” or “Team Harker” T-shirts as they’ve done with Twilight and True Blood.
If Stoker climbed out of his grave, he would probably be surprised at the pantheon of vampires his book has sired and the fandom that has evolved around them.
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And, this November, tens of thousands of young girls and their mothers will be lining up for midnight showings of the final movie in Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight series. Then there was the return of True Blood, HBO’s Southern Gothic gore fest, which features a love triangle between perky waitress Sookie and her vampire suitors, Bill and Eric. In Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, the president stops the vampire-led Confederacy from destroying the Union. Johnny Depp and Tim Burton, diehard Dark Shadows fans, resuscitated two-hundred-year-old vampire Barnabas Collins and his dysfunctional family from the 1960s TV show.
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