Bram Stoker

Word BanR

Dublin's Vlad Dracula critic

Bram StoRer films beautiful

Dracula site Oscar Wilde

memory ashes friends

athlete Undead son

London

White House

Scotland

Dublin

folRlore

Trinity College notes SherlocR Holmes vampire

festival Pennsylvania Europe sctence

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.

Page 1 of2 twinkl.co.uk