Bram Stoker: Resurrecting the Vampire
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My married surname is Stoker and my husband is from Belfast. I work as an ambulance technician and after a particularly difficult run of shifts my team leader decided I would henceforth be known as Bram..... The master of horror and fear.... 6 years later the nickname is still sticking around.....
Hell yeah
Sure...whatever
Fun Fact: as a theatre manager he introduced the practice of numbered seats which, in turn, allowed him to sell annual subscriptions.
You couldn't have uploaded this at a better time! I'm currently writing my English essay on Bram Stoker's Dracula and came on CZcams to procrastinate. You're a good man.
Good luck on your essay 🍀
I’m also currently reading this book and I love it so much!! One of my favs💕
@@aiste2250 I'm probably gonna read it again once the essay is done so I can enjoy it. I really liked it!
Good luck
Dear Jade, .....for your Studies.... his Name was/is correctly.... 'Brahm Stoker', not 'Bram' Stoker. I remain, Declan Stoker Walker McGinn (Ancestor - Dublin, Ireland). Thank you, Declan.
I had the huge honour of meeting Bram Stoker's great grand-nephew, Dacre Stoker, during his book talk and booksigning for 'Dracul' a year ago... I also met Bram Stoker's great-grandson there on the day, too... They BOTH signed my copy!!! :D
What did you think of Dracul? I thought it was rather meh. It was a neat idea for a storyline, but I couldn’t help but have high hopes for a vampire novel written by a distant relative of Bram Stoker, and it just didn’t meet my expectations at all. I found it rather forgettable and it really made no lasting impression on me. I remember finishing it and I just thought “alright, what should I read next?” Hate to say but I felt like he was just piggybacking off his famous name to publish a novel. It would be interesting to meet him though just so I could say I met a relative of Stoker’s.
Have to say being Irish and living in such a small country, the Author's and Poet's like Joyce, Heaney, Beckett,Yeates, Wilde, Swift,Stoker and G.B Shaw and many others always amazes me and makes me proud.
Why be proud of something u had nothing to do with? I mean....how....?? How can u feel pride from that.
@@DK-kv4nt because they are my fellow countrymen. It's that simple.
@@Cybernetic800 mainly protestant Irish and remember Wellington,may have been born in a stable ,but that does not make me a horse
@@michellepeoplelikeyoumurde8373 That "Wellington,may have been born in a stable ,but that does not make me a horse comment was made by Daniel O Connell and not by Wellington.
Dude we are all human and where do you those think writers get their ideas? Irish folklore is full of crazy stories. Besides Irish people are really a mix of Celts, Vikings, Normans etc and the people who inhabited the island before them.
The 1922 movie 'Nosferatu' is a masterpiece. A superb example of early cinema. It is also a version of Bram Stoker's 'Dracula', moved from England to Germany. This was quickly noticed by Stoker's widow, who, as you can imagine, was not best pleased. She managed to get a legal case against the film makers for infringement of copyright, and won her case, which meant that every copy of the film was to be collected... and destroyed. Luckily, a print of the movie was saved, and, over the years copies were made. Whilst I love this movie to bits, I've never found it scary - it is deeply, deeply creepy, though, and beautifully made and shot. The end could not be improved with CGI. It's perfect as it is.
Bram Stoker's short stories, like 'Dracula's Guest'(originally written as the introduction to Dracula), 'The Squaw', 'The Judge's House', 'The Coming Of Abel Behenna', are superb, properly unpleasant, and well worth reading. 'The Jewel Of Seven Stars' is great, but grim (the American edition had a happy ending tacked onto it, much to Stoker's annoyance - it is awful, and adds nothing), and has been filmed twice - as 'Blood From The Mummy's Tomb' (1971), and 'The Awakening' (1980). Both are 'guilty pleasure' movies of mine.
Do you have a Forename for said Widow? Declan Audrey Eugenie Stoker Walker McGinn.
I would love a biographics episode for Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Thanks so much for all of your youtube content. Your channels are a staple of my morning routine.
"I have crossed oceans of time to find you." Bram Stoker
I think reading Dracula at 7, then Wuthering Heights and then Jane Erye and finally Frankenstein all before 9 gave me a false expectation of love and sacrifice.
I especially love “whatever our souls are made of, his and mine they are the same” Wuthering Heights.
"There is no distance between us. No false veils of time or space may intervene"
Mena: “Take me away from all this death..”
Vlad: “Ok. Just let me kill you real quick.”
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“Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living. You said I killed you--haunt me then. The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe--I know that ghosts have wandered the earth. Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad. Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! It is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!”
jmchez “If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.” ...
This is hands down my favorite book.
Yay new bio, I'm stoked.
haha
Bram-stoked
I see what you did there... stop doing it! 🤣
You and your creativity................ well done. 👏🏼
Ha
Stoker's great great grand nephew came to my university to talk about Bram's life and his process in writing Dracula. He's been going to libraries for years to find books that might have inspired him to write it, finding little notes in them and things he underlined. It was very interesting to see his thought process. In his notes, he wrote the name 'Dracula' over and over again so he wouldn't forget it after he found out it meant 'Devil.' The nephew also wrote the official prequel to the book
@Eammon Wright I believe it's called dracul currently reading it. It's quite good. Dracula with forever be one of the best books I've read
Dracul in the context of Vlad the Impaler, certainly means "dragon" and nothing to do with "devil". The undertaking of the 'Dracul' for Vlad II (father of Vlad the Impaler) signified his being a member of the Order of the Dragon. Consequently, Dracula means Son of the Dragon and has nothing to do with "devil" (at least not for the historical context that the novel was aiming for)...
I went to Trinity College Dublin, and also worked at the Lyceum Theatre👌
Love that I happened to follow in Bram’s footsteps. Dracula is one of my favourite books.
That is not how I imagined Bram Stoker looked like.
Same haha.
At first glance at the thumbnail, I thought it was President U.S. Grant :-)
I thought it was James Hetfield... Haha, I bet if Hetfield grew his beard like that and wore those clothes he would look pretty similar...
He also witness the start of the construction of the Titanic and her sister ship Olympic.
Ive read the book four times. Just as lord of the rings, my favorite part is the early parts of the book. The atmosphere is so eerie and is extremely immersive!! Love the book. Must read!!!
His is the only horror novel that gives me nightmares. King? Not even close. Poe? Some psychological thrill but nope. Stoker remains the only one to manage it.
@@TheKkf1015 try lovecraft
@@turtleanton6539 Lovecraft and Stoker, the true lords of horror
Agreed. The slow slide of Harker into isolation and madness as he gets the full slow reveal is terrifying. But the sea voyage on the ghost ship is also scary as hell.
In mentioning the possibility that he may not have been straight, thank you for adding the possibility of being bi-sexual. It often gets overlooked.
Ayy!
Representation and feeling acknowledged.
Could you work on Mary Shelley Frankenstein?
Her friend Lord Byron's life is a lot more interesting, TBH. He slept with her, her sister, his own sister... He bedded Mary while she was pregnant with Percy Bysshe Shelley's baby, while his own wife was pregnant elsewhere, while the three of them, her sister Claire Claremont, and the true inventor fo the modern vampire, John Polidori, were at Lake Geneva. It was Byron's suggestion of ghost stories that gave her the idea for Frankenstein.
Also, when she was 8, Aaron Burr stayed with her family (after her mother died) for a short time while in exile.
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Gary Daniel I never saw them in the eighties & early nineties, though I could’ve. I’m very grateful for all the stuff on CZcams. Cheers back atcha😁
Aria Alexandria Are you sure? I’ve read plenty of books on Byron and I’ve NEVER read he slept with Mary. Where did you see that? I’m curious.
Still a better love story than twilight
Not saying much
Anything is better than twilight
My hairy balls rubbing together is a better love story compared to Twilight 😂😂😂
John Smith - Captain Obvious, is that you? When the furor over that series began, I read them all in order to respond from a place of knowledge, rather than prejudice. Formulaic is an understatement. They're beneath consideration as literature.
I remember as a teenager, I got pretty excited when I first learned that not only was Stoker Irish just like me but his birthday was even the day after mine. Also, could you do videos on Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi if you haven't already, or even Lon Chaney Sr.?
Being a bald man with glasses myself i sometimes watch these videos for fashion advice as you're always on point with the outfit choice ha ha. Another great video
It was my go to book in my teens, I took it everywhere and must have re read it dozens of times, this was the pre goth era of the 70s.
Thank you for an excellent bio of this giant of literature.
First work of fiction I “voluntarily” checked out from the library as a teenager 26 years ago. It’s tone and brilliance has haunted me ever since.
Great video. Thank you!
“My feet!” LOL
Oh my goodness. I’m stealing that civil servant title for any ridiculously picayune squabble I may come across. “ I am Inspector of the Petty Sessions”
Sounds perfect for a Monty Python skit. " I am the inspector of Petty Sessions, sir ! "
Never heard of vampires being afraid of roses before.
Bram Stoker: **possibly a homosexual in the closet**
Me: still a better love story than twilight
This format is getting old..
A homosexual in the coffin :)
@@invisiblebears it fits really great in this setting tho
@@invisiblebears do you even internet?
2:10 - Chapter 1 - Life before dracula
7:40 - Chapter 2 - True bromance
13:20 - Chapter 3 - Dracula (Origins)
17:20 - Chapter 4 - Decoding dracula
20:25 - Chapter 5 - Life after dracula
Thank you😊
Ever since I watched the show Castlevania Ive been in love with the character Dracula. So happy you uploaded this!
Can you do CS Lewis
Ugh the "Jonathan Harker's diary" excerpts are still one of the coolest things I've ever read ❤
Have you done a video on Alexandre Dumas? His father Alex Dumas is pretty interesting too.
Dumb ass, sorry can't help it, after watching Shawshank Redemption, when I hear his name, my immature brain, start acting up, LOL.
Aaron I’d love to see those ones too.
I subscribed to Blaze earlier this week and I absolutely love your personality in those videos. Simon has me learning AND cracking up.
Well, that was fascinating- first read Dracula in my early teens and have read it many times since (now nearly 60 years old.) Each time I come away with something different that I didn't recall noticing before. Haven't read it in awhile now, but guess I'm due!
Btw, looks like Stephen Frye is actually Oscar Wilde- how wonderfully fitting!
I’ve read the book multiple times and it was one of the first chapter books I owned. I absolutely love it and greatly appreciate the story. Thank you so much for doing this video, I only recently found this channel, I came here from Business Blaze!
Absolutely love these videos! Make learning and understanding works of literature so accessible and enjoyable.
Loved this I have un-abridged copies pre 1945 of both`Dracula` & `Lair of the white worm` prized possesions plus signed photo of Peter Cushing as Van Helsing,enjoyed this so much.
Simon, your videos are always presented with such high quality and attention to detail, all the while remaining both entertaining and informative. Love your videos, keep up the good work!
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Simon: "And at this point, we're all probably wondering, 'among other things? You seemed to have covered it all pretty well there.'"
Me: "Oh sweet, naive summer child."
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Yeah necrophilia and copraphilia are like ten times hotter
OK can we just mention that Simon must never sleep. In fact I think he is a vampire. After all he already has 3 other successful youtube channels and seems to make a video or two every day. And now he is starting a fourth. Seriously. Definitely a vampire.
Or he has doppelgangers.
And thanks to an Irishman and Irish folklore, Romania will be forever be associated with vampires.
Thank you Bram Stoker for giving a new face on one of Romania's most feared leaders!
😂😂😂 of course there's a newspaper called the shamrock
Thank you for the video. I always enjoy them. I hope you hit 1 million subs this year!
I dunno, am I the only one who thinks Stoker was simply wrote a horror novel and people put their own interpretations on it?
No, tons of critics have voiced that over the decades but I must admit its pretty cool that it can be interpreted in variety of ways by people in different life styles
I think he intended it to just be a horror novel. Maybe subconsciously he put things in there, but I don't think there was anything deliberate in Dracula, only an interesting story based on stories he heard as a child.
Simon on that grind! Content only getting better :-)
If you're looking to decode Dracula, look no further than Irving's negative reaction to the reading. He obviously saw himself in the egotistical Count and took that as Stoker's opinion of him. Friendship, over.
Please do Victor Hugo & Phillip K. Dick. As a writer myself I love watching your videos, specifically the ones about writers as they give me inspiration. Love the show. Thank You.
A point of order. Florence also got buggered by Aleister Crowley! I thank you.
Always wondered why Dracula never drank wine but would drink absinthe.
So Irving was a psychological/emotional vampire?
you are pretty
That's the message I got 😂
Jypsy with_a_Jae Excellent observation.
Jypsy with_a_Jae Speaking for an Irving I’d say yes
@@irvingramirez2335 lol. In sure u are the exception to the nomenclature.
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Just finished reading Barbara Belford’s brilliant biography on Bram Stoker. Absolutely ecstatic she gets a mention here! Now I can (re)read and appreciate Dracula in a whole new light!
Truly fascinating. Thank you, Simon!
Fills in some of the gaps, used to regularly pass the house attributed to Stoker at the Crescent in Fairview beside Clontarf
Love the site and your presentation, always wonderfully interesting.
Excited about the new theme and style of videos! Will click after I watch the other videos for today!
Great videos as always, but I found this one in particular to be really well written. I liked how it was framed
This is by far the scariest book ever written. His prose is frightening.
I love watching your videos and all your channels. You are so well spoken. Your enthusiasm, excitement, and sense of humor on the ironies is entertaining. Please make some videos on Greek gods and Greek playwrights especially Hades.
He's unbiased and balanced as well when he's presenting on controversial people as well I think which is a rare thing to see on the Internet these days.
Thanks to this video I just learned that I am related to Bram Stoker. Baucom use to be spelled Balcombe before we came to America. I've got a lot of digging to do now :)
In Jospeh Valente’s book Dracula’s Crypt, he surmises that Dracula was also an allegory about nineteenth-century Ireland. As Stoker was a supporter of Irish Home Rule and witnessed first the scandal that brought down Charles Stuart Parnell, the English fear of Irish independence could certainly be read in the story. Also, Stoker came from an ancient Celtic family, so there is a great deal of influence working through the story as well.
Sometimes a vampire is just a vampire. It's possible that Bram just drew on stories he heard as a child and created a vampire tale without any real hidden meaning. Sometimes people see what they want to see in a painting or novel.
What I learned after watching this channel for 1 year: 75% of those people died from a stroke.
Any postive insights?
God how does simon do it. He either runs/Hosts like 8 channels now lol Huge props man. All that work and still good quality videos
So Dracula is about a vampire but it could be interpretet as many various ideas? Nice. I never thought about it that way.
Thanks for this great video Mr. Simon and the crew.
Very interesting video. Thank you for sharing so much knowledge
Man, brings me back to being 16 at South Station in Boston, buying my first paperback of this. Shocked my grandmother when i was reading that instead of playing the X Box my uncle bought my cousins and I. Apparently she forgot about how i ate up the LOTR trilogy, and had a beautiful hardcover copy of the Hobbit. Along with the fact that I read Poe to myself as a child to fall asleep. (the Masque of Red Death has been one of my favorite tales since I can remember)
Amazing review. Thank you for your work.
Thank you so much for covering Bram Stoker!!
jesus guys. i already follow all the other channels and podcast. now another?! keep the content coming
Very interesting review and history of Bram Stoker and his masterpiece, Dracula. Thanks for sharing.
I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS!! Thank you for the education!!!!
I think the lore and stories of vampires, specifically Dracula, has to be some of my favorite reading topics. Thanks for a great video!
I loved this bio video. I just wanted to say thank you for inspiring me to listen to Dracula. I chose it as my next audiobook to listen to on Scribd. Scribd is an app like audible that lets you choose as many books as you want for one monthly price, much cheaper than Audible is. This video intrigued me and made me interested in Bram Stokers Dracula. So I'm going to listen to it next. Please Keep Up ALL the AMAZING Videos on not only this channel but all of your other channels as well!! Your entire team is doing a great job I look forward to all the videos you do. BTW I find Business Blaze hilarious and great! Its an excellent addition to the collection of other channels you do.
Great piece of work. Thanks
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I've had the honour of meeting Bram Stoker's great-grandson and his Great-Grandnephew at a book signing event (Dracul by Dacre Stoker) and talk in my area about six months ago. They BOTH signed my copy, and I was more than excited to find out that the great-grandson of Bram Stoker LIVES in my area, as well!! 😱😍👍
Another new channel! Your going to have your own network soon.
I read the book. I didn't know much about Stoker. Great video, thank you!
Another compulsively watchable video, sir. Made me realize how much I'd love to see an episode about Anne Rice!
Another amazing writer who is just as fascinating personally as his writing was:the late and desperately missed Iain M. Banks, creator of the absolutely oeerlessly stunning science fiction "Culture" series of novels and short stories (to say nothing of his award winning non-scifi fiction!) Even the way he died - finding out he only had a few months left to live (he gave a particularly beautiful, sad, and deeply effecting last interview which is readily available on youtube and in which his wit, brilliance, and relentless honesty about how he lived his life AND how he was living his death shines through his words in a way that was so overwhelmingly honest and so deeply felt that it's like getting kicked in the stomach while inexplicably falling in love with the offending boot. His brutally honest expression of his life AND of his imminent and unavoidable death are of such unflinching depth and devine truths; his unmistakable optimism and despair that its like watching someone buy life insurance then IMMEDIATELY jump off of the life of life and pitiless his rambunctious but kind
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It's quite amusing to see, how different people see completely different interpretation in Stokers book, but most are talking about how he sees sexuality. I don't think anyone of them talked directly to Stoker, so it's assumable they just projected their own problems with sexuality into Stoker and his book.
Dracula is an absolute masterpiece. I read it in german and later also in english for having the original. Both ways it's just great work.
Its assumable, but it's neat that so many different people can inteepret his work in a variety of ways
HI, I'm new to your channel, but I am spell-bound with your video, especially ones like this looking at writers. Can I ask if you have videos (or looking into doing videos) about other 19th Century authors with interesting and sad/dark lives i.e. Lewis Carrol, J.M. Barrie and Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle? I'd love to watch them.
This is one of my most favorite novels. I even wrote a paper in college about it.
Love Bram Stoker!! Dracula is my favorite book! :) Love Buisness blaze, you're so funny! :))
Quite an interesting video! Highly enjoyed it!
Looks like a fun new channel!
I've heard Stoker was also good friends with Doyle. Also, I heard he was in some secret club for wizards that Crowley was eventually kicked out of. I'm not too sure. You might want to fact check that.
The Golden Dawn.
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Suitable for the spectrum of generations.
The new show, judging from the short clip, may be too young for my taste.
It seemed aimed for the younger audience.
But unfair to judge from that, So let's go and see fully.
I really like "Biographics" with IT'S style.
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That was really interesting. Thanks so much!
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Simon, you are so good at your job.
Thanks :)
Imagine if his descendants received royalties every time someone used Dracula in books or films...
Rick Reason you and me both
Dracula is in the public domain
The Stoker family did not take kindly to the film Nosferatu which they considered derivative.
@@feraudyh Indeed, and we're rather fortunate that we even have surviving film reels of Nosferatu, since Mrs. "Highly Vigilant" Stoker ordered all film prints of the movie be destroyed. So it's with a lot of luck that Nosferatu didn't join the sadly large ranks of lost films from that era!!
Public domain exists for a reason, but companies have successfully changed laws to keep properties from becoming public domain, which is unfortunate.
Brilliant Simon, thank you.
You’re killing it absolutely love all the media!!!!! Yes. Yes!
“There are darkness in life in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the lights of all lights” Bram Stoker
We love Business Blaze ❤️❤️❤️ Simon is such a comedian. You learn a lot and laugh along with him.
Nice try, Simon lol
@@Dazbog373 huh?!
I was given the Ladybird version of Dracula at five years old, the pictures terrified me and I wouldn’t sleep unless it was packed away in my trunk!
Good job! Enjoyed that
another simon channel to sub to...excellent
I LOVE YOUR NEW STYLE!!!