David J. Skal discusses and signs Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula.

Introduction by Christopher Bram, author of Gods and Monsters.
Bram Stoker, despite having a name nearly as famous as his legendary undead Count, has remained a puzzling enigma. In a talk with Christopher Bram based on his new book— Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula— David J. Skal exhumes the inner world and strange genius of the writer who conjured an undying cultural icon. The psychosexual dimensions of Stoker’s passionate youthful correspondence with Walt Whitman, his punishing work ethic, and his slavish adoration of the actor Sir Henry Irving are examined in splendidly Gothic detail.

Following his talk, Skal will sign copies of Something in the Blood.

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David J. Skal is a leading American cultural historian and critic of horror film and literature. The author of The Monster Show and Hollywood Gothic, he lives in Glendale, California.

Christopher Bram is the author of nine novels, including Father of Frankenstein, which was made into the Academy Award–winning movie Gods and Monsters, starring Ian McKellen. Bram was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2001, and in 2003, he received Publishing Triangle’s Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement. He lives in Greenwich Village and teaches at New York University.