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Bram Stoker’s application for a ticket for the British Museum Library

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Bram Stoker (1847–1912) describes himself in this letter as a ‘Barrister at Law’. He was indeed a lawyer, but he is much better known as the author of the horror novel Dracula, published in 1897, eight years before this letter was written.
All readers used to have to apply in writing to the Museum if they wanted to use the Museum’s Library. In his application Stoker admits that (like many other readers) he has lost his ticket – although his has been missing for longer than most. ‘I have used the Rooms since 1879 or thereabouts but I have not seen my ticket for at least twenty years and cannot find it.’
The Principal Librarian of the Museum replied to Stoker’s letter on 24 May 1905, telling him that a new ticket would be issued to him.
THIS IS VERY NEAT.

ANNO DRACULA: Appropriation of Characters

“The vampire spy Hamish Bond is supposed to be all the versions of James Bond scrambled together, with added fangs.”

Writer, journalist and expert-on-all-things-fanged Kim Newman talks about his novel Anno Dracula, an uproarious Monster Mash of Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

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“ “Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me! How blessed are some people, whose lives...

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“Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me! How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

Bram Stoker’s classic vampire tale, Dracula, was first offered for sale in London on this day in 1897.