Frank Fairfield
A Bit Bloodless
From The Shadow of Dracula: A Life of Bram Stoker
By Paul Murray
Jonathan Cape 340pp £18.99 order from our bookshop
It falls to few writers to spawn an entire entertainment industry. Ofiand, I can think of six: Mary Shelley with Frankenstein; Edgar Rice Burroughs with Tarzan of the Apes; Arthur Conan Doyle in the creation of Sherlock Holmes; J R R Tolkein; J K Rowling; and, of course, the subject of this biography – Bram Stoker – and his thirsty Transylvanian count.
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