The Undead: The Legend of Bram Stoker and Dracula (Literature & Criti) - Hardcover

Tremayne, Peter; Haining, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0094754306 ISBN 13: 9780094754300

Publisher: Constable, 1997

Synopsis

A biography of Bram Stoker.

About this title

About the Author:

Peter Haining was a prolific editor of anthologies and collections throughout all subgenres of fiction, and he also wrote his own short stories, recently a series about the Second World War. He collected and edited several books about Sherlock Holmes including The Sherlock Holmes Scrapbook and The Television Sherlock Holmes to tie in with the iconic Jeremy Brett series of the eighties and nineties. He died in 2007.

Peter Haining wrote and edited a number of acclaimed books on the supernatural, including Ghosts: The Illustrated History, and A Dictionary of Ghosts, as well as fiction anthologies The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories. A former publisher and much admired figure, he died in 2007. He lived in a sixteenth-century house in Suffolk that is haunted by the ghost of a Napoleonic prisoner of war.

Synopsis:

An account which reveals the real people and places that Bram Stoker drew upon in writing DRACULA, drawing on the discovery of the original manuscript in America, and arguing that Stoker's first 31 years in Ireland have previously been disregarded or misrepresented.

About this edition

• Publisher: Constable
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0094754306
• ISBN 13: 9780094754300
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288