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."
