Download Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula AudioBook Free
Bram Stoker, despite developing a name practically as famous as his legendary undead count, has continued to be a puzzling enigma. Now, in this mental health and cultural family portrait, David J. Skal exhumes the internal world and weird genius of the writer who conjured an undying social icon. Stoker was inexplicably paralyzed as a boy, and his story unfolds against a backdrop of Victorian medical mysteries and horrors: cholera and famine fever, years as a child opium abuse, frantic bloodletting, mesmeric quack solutions, and the gnawing obsession with "bad blood vessels" that informs every webpage of Dracula. Stoker's ambiguous sexuality is explored through his lifelong acquaintance and intimate rival, Oscar Wilde, who emerges as Stoker's repressed darkness aspect - a doppelganger worthy of a Gothic book. The psychosexual sizes of Stoker's excited fresh correspondence with Walt Whitman, his punishing work ethic, and his slavish adoration of the professional Sir Henry Irving are analyzed in splendidly Gothic depth.
