Dracula – bringing the undead to life

 
Dracula, the novel by Bram Stoker, published on May 26 1987, started a genre of gothic horror vampire books, comics and fantasy movies that still send a shiver down susceptible spines today. The original has lurid tales of blood-suckers who transform their human victims into the undead, a term Stoker at one point considered for the title. It wasn’t a best-seller in its day only becoming famous in later years.
Stoker, born 8 November 1847 in Dublin, no birth time, was a civil servan