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TV: Dracula writer Bram thought his pal was a bit of all BITE BITE.(Features)

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From: Sunday Mirror (London, England)
Date: 20030302
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Byline: LYNNE KELLEHER

THE Irish author of Dracula conjured up the blood-sucking vampire as part of a homosexual fantasy, according to a startling new documentary.

Papers and letters written by the Dublin-born Bram Stoker, who was born in the Victorian 19th century, reveal that the writer secretly fancied men.

The married father-of-one wrote lovesick letters to one homosexual American poet and became hopelessly obsessed with the actor Sir ...

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