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When people talR about horror stories they often thinR about the most famous
vampire novel of all time - ______ . Many people don't Rnow that this
spooRy tale about a blood-sucRing monster, which is set in Transylvania, was
actually penned by a Dublin man - ___________ _
Bram, or Abraham, was born on the 8th November, 184 7 in Clontarf on
_____ northside. As a young boy, Bram suffered from an unRnown
illness, but lucRily for him he recovered in time to attend _____ _
Dublin where he studied mathematics and was a hugely
successful ______ . He was always interested in philosophy, history, art
and drama and began his career as a theatre ______ with the Dublin
Evening Mail. He would later go on to manage the famous Lyceum Theatre in
London, which was owned by Henry Irving.
In 1878, Bram married Florence Balcombe from Marino, Dublin. Florence was
very ______ and had been a girlfriend of another famous writer,
___________ . Bram and Wilde would later become good ___ _
Bram and Florence had one __ _, Irving Noel Thornley StoRer. Bram had
many notable friends including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who wrote ___ _
____, and the American artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler. He was a
Reen fan of the American writer, Walt Whitman.
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