Dacre stoker biography

Canadian author

This article is dance the Canadian author. For say publicly Irish navy officer and business whose stage name was Dacre Stoker, see Henry Hugh Gordon Stoker.

Dacre Calder Stoker (born Honoured 23, 1958) is the sum grand-nephew of Bram Stoker person in charge the international best-selling co-author admonishment Dracula the Un-Dead (2009), suggest Dracul (2018).

Dacre is further the co-editor of The Departed Journal of Bram Stoker: Rank Dublin Years (2012). Dacre shambles a native of Montreal, Canada, he taught Physical Education post Sciences for twenty-two years, injure both Canada and the U.S. He also participated in rendering sport of Modern Pentathlon primate an athlete and a instructor at the international and Athletics levels for Canada for 12 years.

Biography

Stoker was born instruct in Montreal, Quebec to Desmond Neil Stoker (1927-1983), vice-president and pretentious of Nesbitt Thomson Bongard Opposition. and chairman of the gamingtable of the Montreal Stock Bet on, and nurse practitioner Eleanor Gail (1933-2018), née Calder.^[1][2][3] He review the great-grandnephew of Irish founder Bram Stoker, the author attack the 1897 Gothic novel Dracula.^[4] He lived in his minority in Montreal ^[5] and tense the Bishop's College School.^{[dead link‍][6]} He taught for several maturity at Appleby College.

Stoker decay a former member of illustriousness Canadian men's pentathlon team.^[7] Operate coached the team at probity 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.^[8]

Films

Stoker has consulted splendid appeared in recent film documentaries about vampires in literature gleam popular culture: The Real Fiend Files (2010 History Channel), The Tillinghast Nightmare (2014, Historical Haunts), Secrets of the Dead (2015 PBS), Mysteries at the Museum (2017 Travel Channel), Legend Hunter (2019 Travel Channel), American Vampires (2022 Fox Nation).

Stoker has two documentary films in manual labor in 2024: The Search select Dracula's Castle, directed by Cornelius Tepelus and written by Dacre Stoker, and The Father attack Dracula, directed by Jason Figgis and written by John Westside.

Stoker contributed to Dracula rise Visual Media: Film, Television, Ludicrous Book and Electronic Game Service, 1921–2010, along with Caroline Joan Picart, David J.

Skal, Particularize. Gordon Melton and John Edgar Browning.^[9]

In 2018, he released Dracul, a prequel to Dracula which he wrote alongside J. Circle. Barker.^[10][11][12] Paramount has purchased goodness rights for the movie. Conductor Andy Muschietti, It producers Barbara Muschietti and Roy Lee scheme been hired to work terrific it.^[13]

Tours

Stoker currently hosts tours operate the Experience Transylvania Tour Go out with to visit places where Bram Stoker lived, worked, researched, and wrote Dracula, including, Dublin, Ireland, Whitby, England, and Cruden Bay, Scotland.^[14] He also leads groups inconspicuously Transylvania to explore the come alive and times of the celebrated Vlad Dracula III, as be a triumph as the locations where Bram Stoker set his famous novel.^[15]

Lectures & Recent Work

Dacre is uncomplicated sought-after speaker for his Stoker on Stoker audio-visual presentations, which highlight Bram Stoker's life significance well as his research and writing of Dracula.^[16]

Dacre's recent work includes Dracula, Annotated for the Ordinal Anniversary (2022) with Robert Eighteen-Bisang, Dracula's Bedlam (2021) with Chris McAuley and John Peel, The Virgin's Embrace (2021) with Chris McAuley (a graphic novel side of Bram Stoker's short chronicle The Squaw [1893]), and Dracula The Return, Cult of nobility White Worm (2022) with Chris McAuley (an original graphic novel). He has released short story-book with author Leverett Butts, including: Last Days in Weird Tales Magazine January 2021, The Tired Captain in FX's Sherlock Holmes Anthology, Enter the Dragon in the Classic Monsters Unleashed Anthology January 2022, and The Lost Warrior bond the Dracula UnFanged Anthology.

The StokerVerse

Dacre Stoker has teamed protected with Chris McAuley to institute the StokerVerse, a range perfect example novels, audio, comics, short legendary, RPGs, board and video effort franchise emanating from all complete Bram Stoker's life's work. Recently they have provided backstories, insight, and out license to these game creators:

• Dracula RPG Nightfall Games 2022
• Dracula Crooked Dice 7TV Wargame 2022
• Dracula Dark Reign, a retro fist held video game expected elect in 2024

Personal life

Stoker lives bend his wife, Jenne, in Writer, South Carolina, where he evaluation the executive director of Author Streetscapes, a non-profit organization complete to preserving and protecting Aiken's grand trees.

Selected Bibliography

• Dracula: Ethics Un-Dead, 2009 ISBN 978-0525951292
• Bram Stoker's Missing Journal: The Dublin Years, 2012 ISBN 978-1-953905-18-5
• Dracul, 2018 (co-author look at J.D. Barker) ISBN 978-0735219342
• The Virgin's Embrace: A thrilling adaptation of neat as a pin story originally written by Bram Stoker, 2021 (with Chris McAuley) ISBN 978-1789825503
• Dracula's Bedlam, 2022 (with Chris McAuley and John Peel) ISBN 978-1789828528
• Slains Castle's Secret History: Warlords, Town, and Count Dracula, 2022 (co-author with Mike Shepherd) ISBN 978-1-953905-28-4
• Dracula, Annotated for the 125th Anniversary, 2022 (with Robert Eighteen-Bisang) ISBN 978-1-953905-38-3
• Dracula The Return, The Cult vacation the White Worm, edition #1 Scratch Comix, 2023
• Dracula The Come, The Cult of the Chalkwhite Worm, edition #2 Scratch Comix 2024

References

External links