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Ghost and Horror Stories by Bram Stoker (Paperback, 1998)

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Stoker was the third of seven children. Abraham and Charlotte were members of the Clontarf Church of Ireland parish and attended the parish church St.

John the Baptist located on Seafield Road West with their children, who were both baptised there. Stoker was an invalid until he started school at the age of seven — when he made a complete and astounding recovery.

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Of this time, Stoker wrote, "I was naturally thoughtful, and the leisure of long illness gave opportunity for many thoughts which were fruitful according to their kind in later years. He was auditor of the College Historical Society and president of the University Philosophical Society, where his first paper was on "Sensationalism in Fiction and Society".

In , while employed as a civil servant in Dublin, Stoker wrote a non-fiction book The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland, published and theatre reviews for The Dublin Mail, a newspaper partly owned by fellow horror writer J. His interest in theatre led to a lifelong friendship with the English actor Henry Irving. The couple moved to London, where Stoker became business manager at first as acting-manager of Irving's Lyceum Theatre, a post he held for 27 years.

The collaboration with Irving was very important for Stoker and through him he became involved in London's high society, where he met, among other notables, James McNeil Whistler, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

In the course of Irving's tours, Stoker got the chance to travel around the world. The House on the Borderland.

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