10/10/11
Bram Stoker Relative, SLU Graduate, Giving Presentation On 'Dracula' Author
CANTON - St. Lawrence University Class of 1981 graduate Dacre Stoker, great-grandnephew of Dracula author Bram Stoker, will give a presentation titled "The Mysteries behind the Writing of Bram Stoker's Dracula, and the Research behind the Writing of the Sequel, Dracula: The Un-Dead" on Tuesday, October 25, at 8 p.m. in the Winston Room of Sullivan Student Center on campus. The Friends of the Owen D. Young and Launders Libraries event is open to the public, free of charge. He will sign copies of his book at Brewer Bookstore on Monday, October 24, at 4:30 p.m.
Dacre Stoker is co-author of the first authorized sequel to the book written by his famous relative, the 2009 book Dracula: The Un-Dead, by Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt. Dacre Stoker is the executive director of the Aiken Land Conservancy in Aiken, SC; his St. Lawrence degree is in sport and leisure studies and he was a member of the swim team as an undergraduate. After college, Stoker was a member of the Canadian men's modern pentathlon team and coach of the Canadian men's modern pentathlon Olympic Team for the games held in Seoul, South Korea, in 1988.
Dracula: The Un-Dead is based on Bram Stoker's handwritten notes for characters and plot threads excised from the original edition, published in 1897. Written with the blessing and cooperation of Stoker family members, the sequel begins in 1912, 25 years after Dracula "crumbled into dust."
Dracula: The Un-Dead website
Friends of Owen D. Young and Launders Libraries blog
