Abraham ‘Bram’ Stoker

braham ‘Bram’ Stoker - the author who reimagined and propelled Vlad III as Dracula onto the international scene – is of Irish became his most successful literary achievement. Stoker researched the novel not ‘on the ground’ in the Wallachian and Transylvanian regions of modern Romania, in the Carpathian Mountains, or in Eastern Europe, but in English reading rooms, at the British Library, the library in Whitby, and other places that afforded him access to primary and secondary sources. These allowed him to slowly build his characters and the storyline.