(READ BOOK) Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who

Shortlisted for the Edgar Award (Critical/Biographical)Finalist for the Bram Stoker Award (Nonfiction)Finalist for the Anthony Award (Critical Nonfiction)A revelatory biography exhumes the haunted origins of the man behind the immortal myth, bringing us the closest we can get to understanding [Bram Stoker] and his iconic tale (The New Yorker).In this groundbreaking portrait of the man who birthed an undying cultural icon, David J. Skal pulls back the curtain to reveal the author who dreamed up this vampire (TIME magazine). Examining the myriad anxieties plaguing the Victorian fin de siecle