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The decent chap and his hungry vampire; Bram Stoker's businesslike mind teemed with the stuff of nightmares.

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From: The Evening Standard (London, England)
Date: 20040802
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Byline: CLAIRE HARMAN

From the Shadow of Dracula: A Life of Bram Stoker by Paul Murray (Cape, [pounds sterling]18.99)

IF ANYONE wants his flesh to creep, Bram Stoker is the boy, one early reviewer of Dracula wrote in 1897, stunned as readers have been ever since by the glut of blood, gloom and underwear that the classic horror tale presents.

Threatened virgins, avenging Aryans, terrible temptations; Stoker's Gothic extravaganza hit the spot by going just a little bit further than anyone else dared.

Literature it isn't, and no one has ever seriously tried to make ...

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