Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula

by David J. Skal

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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, Skal stages Bram Stoker's infirm childhood against a grisly tableau of medical mysteries and horrors: cholera and famine fever, childhood opium abuse, frantic bloodletting, mesmeric quack cures,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1631493868

ISBN13:9781631493867

Release Date:October 2017

Publisher:Liveright Publishing Corporation

Length:672 Pages

Weight:0.30 lbs.

Dimensions:1.7" x 5.7" x 8.7"

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