Abraham Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912), better known by his pen name Bram Stoker, was an Irish novelist. He was the author of Dracula (1897), an epistolary Gothic horror novel considered a landmark in vampire literature. The work deeply influenced future representations of vampiric characters, and Stoker came to be popularly regarded by many as "the father of vampire fiction." Wikipedia
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