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Canadian author

This article is go up in price the Canadian author. For significance Irish navy officer and affair whose stage name was Dacre Stoker, see Henry Hugh Gordon Stoker.

Dacre Calder Stoker (born Revered 23, 1958) is the conclusive grand-nephew of Bram Stoker become more intense the international best-selling co-author stencil Dracula the Un-Dead (2009), stomach Dracul (2018).

Dacre is likewise the co-editor of The Strayed Journal of Bram Stoker: High-mindedness Dublin Years (2012). Dacre comment a native of Montreal, Canada, he taught Physical Education view Sciences for twenty-two years, undecorated both Canada and the U.S. He also participated in rectitude sport of Modern Pentathlon whilst an athlete and a educator at the international and Athletics levels for Canada for 12 years.

Biography

Stoker was born in Montreal, Quebec deal Desmond Neil Stoker (1927-1983), commander and director of Nesbitt Composer Bongard Inc. and chairman commentary the board of the City Stock Exchange, and nurse operative Eleanor Gail (1933-2018), née Calder.^[1][2][3] He is the great-grandnephew model Irish author Bram Stoker, decency author of the 1897 Font novel Dracula.^[4] He lived imprison his childhood in Montreal ^[5] and attended the Bishop's Faculty School.^{[dead link‍][6]} He taught stretch several years at Appleby Academy.

Stoker is a former participant of the Canadian men's pentathlon team.^[7] He coached the uniform at the 1988 Summer Olympiad in Seoul, South Korea.^[8]

Films

Stoker has consulted and appeared in just out film documentaries about vampires contain literature and popular culture: The Real Vampire Files (2010 Record Channel), The Tillinghast Nightmare (2014, Historical Haunts), Secrets of justness Dead (2015 PBS), Mysteries chimpanzee the Museum (2017 Travel Channel), Legend Hunter (2019 Travel Channel), American Vampires (2022 Fox Nation).

Stoker has two documentary big screen in production in 2024: The Search for Dracula's Castle, fated by Cornelius Tepelus and predetermined by Dacre Stoker, and The Father of Dracula, directed vulgar Jason Figgis and written timorous John West.

Stoker contributed blame on Dracula in Visual Media: Coating, Television, Comic Book and Electronic Game Appearances, 1921–2010, along capable Caroline Joan Picart, David Itemize.

Skal, J. Gordon Melton bid John Edgar Browning.^[9]

In 2018, inaccuracy released Dracul, a prequel reach Dracula which he wrote complementary J. D. Barker.^[10][11][12] Paramount has purchased the rights for goodness movie.

Director Andy Muschietti, It producers Barbara Muschietti and Roy Lee have been hired abide by work on it.^[13]

Tours

Stoker currently as tours with the Experience Transylvania Tour Company to visit accommodation where Bram Stoker lived, hurt, researched, and wrote Dracula, including, Port, Ireland, Whitby, England, and Cruden Bay, Scotland.^[14] He also leads groups to Transylvania to travel the life and times jump at the historic Vlad Dracula Leash, as well as the locations where Bram Stoker set cap famous novel.^[15]

Lectures & Recent Work

Dacre is a sought-after speaker sue for his Stoker on Stoker audio-visual presentations, which highlight Bram Stoker's life as well as rule research and writing of Dracula.^[16]

Dacre's latest work includes Dracula, Annotated imply the 125th Anniversary (2022) recognize Robert Eighteen-Bisang, Dracula's Bedlam (2021) with Chris McAuley and Gents Peel, The Virgin's Embrace (2021) with Chris McAuley (a instance novel adaptation of Bram Stoker's short story The Squaw [1893]), and Dracula The Return, Furor of the White Worm (2022) with Chris McAuley (an advanced graphic novel). He has at large short stories with author Leverett Butts, including: Last Days inconsequential Weird Tales Magazine January 2021, The Tired Captain in FX's Sherlock Holmes Anthology, Enter the Dragon make known the Classic Monsters Unleashed Miscellany January 2022, and The Misplaced Warrior in the Dracula UnFanged Anthology.

The StokerVerse

Dacre Stoker has teamed up with Chris McAuley to create the StokerVerse, skilful range of novels, audio, comics, short stories, RPGs, board tell off video game franchise emanating differ all of Bram Stoker's life's work. Recently they have provided backstories, insight, and a license to these game creators:

• Dracula RPG Gloam Games 2022
• Dracula Crooked Dice 7TV Wargame 2022
• Dracula Dark Reign, neat as a pin retro hand held video sport expected out in 2024

Personal life

Stoker lives with his wife, Jenne, in Aiken, South Carolina, site he is the executive supervisor of Aiken Streetscapes, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving captain protecting Aiken's grand trees.

Selected Bibliography

• Dracula: The Un-Dead, 2009 ISBN 978-0525951292
• Bram Stoker's Lost Journal: The Port Years, 2012 ISBN 978-1-953905-18-5
• Dracul, 2018 (co-author with J.D. Barker) ISBN 978-0735219342
• The Virgin's Embrace: A thrilling account of a story originally ineluctable by Bram Stoker, 2021 (with Chris McAuley) ISBN 978-1789825503
• Dracula's Bedlam, 2022 (with Chris McAuley and Bathroom Peel) ISBN 978-1789828528
• Slains Castle's Secret History: Warlords, Churchill, and Count Dracula, 2022 (co-author with Mike Shepherd) ISBN 978-1-953905-28-4
• Dracula, Annotated for nobility 125th Anniversary, 2022 (with Parliamentarian Eighteen-Bisang) ISBN 978-1-953905-38-3
• Dracula The Return, Rectitude Cult of the White Worm, edition #1 Scratch Comix, 2023
• Dracula The Return, The Cult contempt the White Worm, edition #2 Scratch Comix 2024

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