The Red Stockade, Bram Stoker
The Red Stockade, Bram Stoker
List: $2.98 | Sale: $2.09
Club: $1.49

The Red Stockade

Author: Bram Stoker

Narrator: Walter Dixon

Unabridged: 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 07/03/2012


Synopsis

Members of the 'Old Coast-Guard' are sent to put down pirates in the Straits of Malacca. A young boy, named Tempest, finds himself often criticized for being a coward by the crew, but he proves his mates wrong during the thick of battle. Tempest allows the crew to defeat the pirates in the Red Stockade due to his bravery and willingness to sacrifice.

About Bram Stoker

Bram Stoker was born November 8, 1847, in Dublin, Ireland. His father was a civil servant, and his mother was a charity worker and writer. Stoker studied math at Trinity College in Dublin and graduated in 1867, after which he became a civil servant. At this time, he also worked as a freelance journalist, a drama critic, and editor of the Evening Mail. In 1876, he met Sir Henry Irving, a famous actor. Stoker accepted a job as personal secretary to Irving and went to England in 1878. Before he left Ireland, he published his first book, The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland. While working for Irving he met an aspiring actress named Florence Balcombe. They married in 1878 and had one son, Noel, who was born in 1879. In England, Stoker also began writing a series of short stories and novels, the first of which was The Snake's Pass. Although best known for Dracula, Stoker wrote eighteen books before he died in 1912.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Grace on April 21, 2015

This was a somewhat obscure Bram Stoker short story (by the author of Dracula) which also, apparently, like Dracula, has its roots in Whitby. Apparently, this story was related to Stoker by a coastguard based in Whitby and then Stoker then reimagined it for his own story. it is a wonderful story of......more

Goodreads review by blake on December 24, 2021

Bloody pirate adventure!......more

Goodreads review by Amrendra on December 30, 2016

One of the stories of a book I read long ago - titled 'Adventure Stories'......more