Something in the Blood - by David J Skal (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Shortlisted for the Edgar Award (Critical/Biographical)<br /> Finalist for the Bram Stoker Award (Nonfiction)<br /> Finalist for the Anthony Award (Critical Nonfiction) <p>A revelatory biography exhumes the haunted origins of the man behind the immortal myth, bringing us the closest we can get to understanding [Bram Stoker] and his iconic tale (<em>The New Yorker</em>).</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>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 (<em>TIME</em> 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, and the gnawing obsession with bad blood that pervades <em>Dracula</em>. In later years, Stoker's ambiguous sexuality is explored through his passionate youthful correspondence with Walt Whitman, his adoration of the actor Sir Henry Irving, and his romantic rivalry with lifelong acquaintance Oscar Wilde--here portrayed as a stranger-than-fiction doppelgänger. Recalling the psychosexual contours of Stoker's life and art in splendidly gothic detail, <em>Something in the Blood</em> is the definitive biography for years to come.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>[A] gossipy, entertaining book filled with fascinating digressions and juicy connections.-- "Boston Globe"<br><br>A consistently entertaining, sumptuously illustrated ramble through 'Stokerism.'-- "Spectator"<br><br>A keepsake for any Dracula enthusiast.-- "Seattle Times"<br><br>Skal proves to be an ideal guide...surely successful in his efforts to revivify his subject and to reveal that even those shadows we think we know may contain obscurities that move of their own volition and which, tantalizingly, remain just out of sight.-- "Times Literary Supplement"<br><br>Sharply written, well-researched (with judicious use of recent discoveries), attentive to detail, and entertaining to read. Skal's is the finest, most balanced biography of Bram Stoker yet written.--Sir Christopher Frayling, author of Vampyres: Lord Byron to Count Dracula and Nightmare: The Birth of Horror<br>
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