Abraham 'Bram' Stoker (1847–1912) was an Irish writer born in Dublin, a sickly child bedridden until about the age of seven, who later became an athlete at Trinity College Dublin and a civil servant. In 1878 he moved to London as business manager of Henry Irving's Lyceum Theatre, a post he held for twenty-seven years. He wrote novels and stories in his spare time; Dracula (1897) is by far the best known, alongside The Lair of the White Worm (1911).
Dracula is told through journals, letters, phonograph diaries, telegrams and newspaper cuttings assembled by its characters. Jonathan Harker, a young English solicitor, travels to Transylvania to arrange the purchase of a London property, Carfax, for Count Dracula.
