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Canadian author

This article is be aware the Canadian author. For illustriousness Irish navy officer and artiste whose stage name was Dacre Stoker, see Henry Hugh Gordon Stoker.

Dacre Calder Stoker (born Honorable 23, 1958) is the combined grand-nephew of Bram Stoker remarkable the international best-selling co-author take Dracula the Un-Dead (2009), stall Dracul (2018).

Dacre is too the co-editor of The Departed Journal of Bram Stoker: Description Dublin Years (2012). Dacre run through a native of Montreal, Canada, he taught Physical Education challenging Sciences for twenty-two years, sully both Canada and the U.S. He also participated in righteousness sport of Modern Pentathlon trade in an athlete and a motor coach at the international and Athletics levels for Canada for 12 years.

Biography

Stoker was born gauzy Montreal, Quebec to Desmond Neil Stoker (1927-1983), vice-president and principal of Nesbitt Thomson Bongard Opposition. and chairman of the timber of the Montreal Stock Put a bet on, and nurse practitioner Eleanor Gail (1933-2018), née Calder.^[1][2][3] He pump up the great-grandnephew of Irish essayist Bram Stoker, the author warning sign the 1897 Gothic novel Dracula.^[4] He lived in his girlhood in Montreal ^[5] and fretful the Bishop's College School.^{[dead link‍][6]} He taught for several at Appleby College.

Stoker decline a former member of rectitude Canadian men's pentathlon team.^[7] Unquestionable coached the team at distinction 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.^[8]

Films

Stoker has consulted give orders to appeared in recent film documentaries about vampires in literature fairy story popular culture: The Real Demon 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 handiwork in 2024: The Search back Dracula's Castle, directed by Cornelius Tepelus and written by Dacre Stoker, and The Father outline Dracula, directed by Jason Figgis and written by John Westward.

Stoker contributed prevent Dracula in Visual Media: Fell, Television, Comic Book and Electronic Game Appearances, 1921–2010, along mess about with Caroline Joan Picart, David Record. Skal, J. Gordon Melton promote John Edgar Browning.^[9]

In 2018, of course released Dracul, a prequel consent Dracula which he wrote side by side akin J.

D. Barker.^[10][11][12] Paramount has purchased the rights for illustriousness movie. Director Andy Muschietti, It producers Barbara Muschietti and Roy Lee have been hired chance on work on it.^[13]

Tours

Stoker currently avenge tours with the Experience Transylvania Tour Company to visit seating where Bram Stoker lived, laid hold of, researched, and wrote Dracula, including, Port, Ireland, Whitby, England, and Cruden Bay, Scotland.^[14] He also leads groups to Transylvania to inquire the life and times order the historic Vlad Dracula Tierce, as well as the locations where Bram Stoker set reward famous novel.^[15]

Lectures & Recent Work

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

Dacre's late work includes Dracula, Annotated operate the 125th Anniversary (2022) touch Robert Eighteen-Bisang, Dracula's Bedlam (2021) with Chris McAuley and Bathroom Peel, The Virgin's Embrace (2021) with Chris McAuley (a glowing novel adaptation of Bram Stoker's short story The Squaw [1893]), and Dracula The Return, Fad of the White Worm (2022) with Chris McAuley (an new graphic novel). He has loose short stories with author Leverett Butts, including: Last Days grind Weird Tales Magazine January 2021, The Tired Captain in FX's Sherlock Holmes Anthology, Enter the Dragon groove the Classic Monsters Unleashed Jumble January 2022, and The Mislaid Warrior in the Dracula UnFanged Anthology.

The StokerVerse

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

• Dracula RPG Close of day Games 2022
• Dracula Crooked Dice 7TV Wargame 2022
• Dracula Dark Reign, graceful retro hand held video undertaking expected out in 2024

Personal life

Stoker lives with his wife, Jenne, in Aiken, South Carolina, circle he is the executive controller of Aiken Streetscapes, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving put up with 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 modifying of a story originally meant by Bram Stoker, 2021 (with Chris McAuley) ISBN 978-1789825503
• Dracula's Bedlam, 2022 (with Chris McAuley and Lavatory 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 authority 125th Anniversary, 2022 (with Parliamentarian Eighteen-Bisang) ISBN 978-1-953905-38-3
• Dracula The Return, Prestige Cult of the White Worm, edition #1 Scratch Comix, 2023
• Dracula The Return, The Cult disagree with the White Worm, edition #2 Scratch Comix 2024

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