Bram Stoker

1847年出生於都柏林郊區的克隆塔夫，他是愛爾蘭籍的英國小說家。1897年出版了以吸血鬼為題材的哥德式恐怖小說《吸血鬼(Dracula) 》並因此成名，這本小說和另一位愛爾蘭作家Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu的《女吸血鬼卡蜜拉》(Camilla) 一起成為吸血鬼文學的經典小說。

Bram Stoker was born on November 8, 1847, in Dublin, Ireland. During his childhood he was physically weak and often edridden. He loved reading and writing in his youth, and he wanted to become a writer someday despite his father’s intense opposition. After graduating from Trinity College, he became a civil servant. Stoker faithfully fulfilled his job duties and also worked as a writer. In addition to his first published work, Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland, which was published in 1879, many more of his long and short stories were published. In 1897, Stoker’s Gothic horror novel Dracula won his worldwide fame. He was a genuine, tireless writer who devoted himself to writing until his death on April 20, 1912.