Author: Bram Stoker
Narrator: Victor Garber
Unabridged: 31 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Audio Holdings
Published: 01/01/2009
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.
A lesser-known horror work, whose start and end are the best parts of an otherwise disjointed story. Had Stoker delved more into the handsome aristocrat's scandalous tryst, we might have a saucier tale :) A lovely, heart-breaking finale, however.......more
Such an odd little horror story. Read: 05/05/2019 1st rating: 2 stars Genre/sub-genres: Horror/short story/classic Cover: 1 star POV: 3rd Person. Will I recommend: No probably the least enjoyable of Stokers short stories in my opinion.......more
Stoker's extensive research into Hungarian folklore would have made him familiar with Clarissa Estes' The Woman with Hair of Gold.* He cleverly reworked this Hungarian folktale into a Victorian version he titled The Secret of the Growing Gold. *Estés, Clarissa Pinkola. (1992). "The Woman with Hair of......more
Quite Poe-esque. Reasonably creepy. Nothing startling but I like the golden hair motif, though it really just replaces Poe's heart beneath the floorboards, as well the black cat's shadow, Bierce's exposing conflagration and, I am sure, countless others.......more