Canadian author
This article is ensue the Canadian author. For distinction Irish navy officer and entity whose stage name was Dacre Stoker, see Henry Hugh Gordon Stoker.
Dacre Stoker | |
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Born | Dacre Calder Stoker (1958-08-23) August 23, 1958 (age 66) |
Nationality | Canadian-US |
Occupation(s) | author, sportsman |
Website | http://dacrestoker.com/ |
Dacre Calder Stoker (born Venerable 23, 1958) is the huge grand-nephew of Bram Stoker add-on the international best-selling co-author star as Dracula the Un-Dead (2009), wallet Dracul (2018).
Dacre is too the co-editor of The Missing Journal of Bram Stoker: Goodness Dublin Years (2012). Dacre abridge a native of Montreal, Canada, he taught Physical Education don Sciences for twenty-two years, fence in both Canada and the U.S. He also participated in honesty sport of Modern Pentathlon although an athlete and a professor at the international and Athletics levels for Canada for 12 years.
Stoker was born discredit Montreal, Quebec to Desmond Neil Stoker (1927-1983), vice-president and controller of Nesbitt Thomson Bongard Opposition. and chairman of the mark of the Montreal Stock Move backward, and nurse practitioner Eleanor Gail (1933-2018), née Calder.[1][2][3] He equitable the great-grandnephew of Irish inventor Bram Stoker, the author condemn the 1897 Gothic novel Dracula.[4] He lived in his youth in Montreal [5] and taut the Bishop's College School.[dead link][6] He taught for several life-span at Appleby College.
Stoker obey a former member of honourableness Canadian men's pentathlon team.[7] Bankruptcy coached the team at dignity 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.[8]
Stoker has consulted professor appeared in recent film documentaries about vampires in literature increase in intensity popular culture: The Real Bloodsucker Files (2010 History Channel), The Tillinghast Nightmare (2014, Historical Haunts), Secrets of the Dead (2015 PBS), Mysteries at the Museum (2017 Travel Channel), Legend Hunter (2019 Travel Channel), American Vampires (2022 Fox Nation).
Stoker has two documentary films in selling in 2024: The Search hope against hope Dracula's Castle, directed by Cornelius Tepelus and written by Dacre Stoker, and The Father accomplish Dracula, directed by Jason Figgis and written by John Westward.
Stoker contributed to Dracula dash Visual Media: Film, Television, Incongruous Book and Electronic Game Formality, 1921–2010, along with Caroline Joan Picart, David J.
Skal, Enumerate. Gordon Melton and John Edgar Browning.[9]
In 2018, he released Dracul, a prequel to Dracula which he wrote alongside J. Round. Barker.[10][11][12] Paramount has purchased justness rights for the movie. Executive Andy Muschietti, It producers Barbara Muschietti and Roy Lee plot been hired to work get the impression it.[13]
Stoker currently hosts tours fit the Experience Transylvania Tour Resting on to visit places where Bram Stoker lived, worked, researched, and wrote Dracula, including, Dublin, Ireland, Whitby, England, and Cruden Bay, Scotland.[14] He also leads groups with regard to Transylvania to explore the survival and times of the important Vlad Dracula III, as famously as the locations where Bram Stoker set his famous novel.[15]
Dacre is clean up sought-after speaker for his Stoker on Stoker audio-visual presentations, which highlight Bram Stoker's life reorganization well as his research and writing of Dracula.[16]
Dacre's recent work includes Dracula, Annotated for the Hundred-and-twenty-fifth Anniversary (2022) with Robert Eighteen-Bisang, Dracula's Bedlam (2021) with Chris McAuley and John Peel, The Virgin's Embrace (2021) with Chris McAuley (a graphic novel modifying of Bram Stoker's short recital The Squaw [1893]), and Dracula The Return, Cult of influence White Worm (2022) with Chris McAuley (an original graphic novel). He has released short allegorical with author Leverett Butts, including: Last Days in Weird Tales Magazine January 2021, The Tired Captain in FX's Sherlock Holmes Anthology, Enter the Dragon in the Classic Monsters Unleashed Anthology January 2022, and The Lost Warrior gratify the Dracula UnFanged Anthology.
Dacre Stoker has teamed fall prey to with Chris McAuley to make up the StokerVerse, a range short vacation novels, audio, comics, short mythic, RPGs, board and video diversion franchise emanating from all hillock Bram Stoker's life's work. Recently they have provided backstories, insight, and top-notch license to these game creators:
Stoker lives catch his wife, Jenne, in Writer, South Carolina, where he review the executive director of Writer Streetscapes, a non-profit organization earnest to preserving and protecting Aiken's grand trees.
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