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A crab supper and a pain in the neck This biography of Bram Stoker, the creator of Dracula, has more bumf than bite, says Aileen Reid
From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20040808
Author:by Aileen Reid
From the Shadow of `Dracula': A Life of Bram Stoker
by Paul Murray
Jonathan Cape, pounds 18.99, 340 pp
pounds 16.99 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222
ABOUT 10 YEARS ago, Francis Ford Coppola made a film called Bram Stoker's Dracula. As opposed to whose? (you might well sneer) . . . Barbara Cartland's? But Coppola's title acknowledged an inescapable fact - that while the toothy Count is now a character as widely recognised as Frankenstein's monster, his creator has fallen into obscurity.
He had a long way to fall. In his day the great, red-bearded Stoker cut a bit of a dash around the West End ...
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