Dacre Stoker

Dacre Calder Stoker (born August 23, 1958) is a Canadian-American writer and former pentathlete, as well as the great grand-nephew of Bram Stoker. He co-authored the international best-selling '' Dracula the Un-dead'' (2009), and '' Dracul'' (2018), and is also the co-editor of ''The Lost Journal of Bram Stoker: The Dublin Years'' (2012). Dacre is a native of Montreal, Canada, he taught Physical Education and Sciences for twenty-two years, in both Canada and the U.S. He also participated in the sport of Modern Pentathlon as an athlete and a coach at the international and Olympic levels for Canada for 12 years.

Biography

Stoker was born in Montreal, Quebec to Desmond Neil Stoker (1927-1983), vice-president and director of Nesbitt Thomson Bongard Inc. and chairman of the board of the Montreal Stock Exchange, and nurse practitioner Eleanor Gail (1933-2018), née Calder. He is the great-grandnephew of Irish author Bram Stoker, the author of the 1897 Gothic novel ''Dracula''. He lived his childhood in Montreal "Dacre Stoker"
. Dracula The Un-dead. Retrieved October 6, 2012. and attended the Bishop's College School. He taught for several years at Appleby College.

Stoker is a former member of the Canadian men's pentathlon team. He coached the team at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.

Films

Stoker has consulted and appeared in recent film documentaries about vampires in literature and popular culture: ''The Real Vampire 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 production in 2024: ''The Search for Dracula's Castle'', directed by Cornelius Tepelus and written by Dacre Stoker, and ''The Father of Dracula'', directed by Jason Figgis and written by John West.

Stoker contributed to ''Dracula in Visual Media: Film, Television, Comic Book and Electronic Game Appearances, 1921–2010'', along with Caroline Joan Picart, David J. Skal, J. Gordon Melton and John Edgar Browning.

In 2018, he released '' Dracul'', a prequel to ''Dracula'' which he wrote alongside J. D. Barker. Paramount has purchased the rights for the movie. Director Andy Muschietti, '' It'' producers Barbara Muschietti and Roy Lee have been hired to work on it.

Tours

Stoker currently hosts tours with the Experience Transylvania Tour Company to visit places where Bram Stoker lived, worked, researched, and wrote ''Dracula'', including, Dublin, Ireland, Whitby, England, and Cruden Bay, Scotland. He also leads groups to Transylvania to explore the life and times of the historic Vlad Dracula III, as well as the locations where Bram Stoker set his famous novel.

Lectures & recent work

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

Dacre's recent work includes ''Dracula, Annotated for the 125th 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 adaptation of Bram Stoker's short story ''The Squaw'' '1893'''','' and ''Dracula The Return, Cult of the White Worm'' (2022) with Chris McAuley (an original graphic novel)''.'' He has released short stories 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 C''lassic Monsters Unleashed'' Anthology January 2022, and ''The Lost Warrior'' in the ''Dracula UnFanged'' Anthology.

The StokerVerse

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

* ''Dracula'' RPG Nightfall Games 2022
* ''Dracula'' Crooked Dice 7TV Wargame 2022
* ''Dracula Dark Reign'', a retro hand held video game expected out in 2024

Personal life

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

Selected bibliography

* ''Dracula: The Un-Dead'', 2009
* ''Bram Stoker's Lost Journal: The Dublin Years,'' 2012 ISBN 978-1-953905-18-5
* ''Dracul'', 2018 (co-author with J.D. Barker)
* ''The Virgin's Embrace: A thrilling adaptation of a story originally written by Bram Stoker'', 2021 (with Chris McAuley)
* ''Dracula's Bedlam'', 2022 (with Chris McAuley and John Peel)
* ''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 the 125th Anniversary'', 2022 (with Robert Eighteen-Bisang)
* ''Dracula The Return, The Cult of the White Worm'', edition #1 Scratch Comix, 2023
* ''Dracula The Return, The Cult of the White Worm'', edition #2 Scratch Comix 2024

References

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1958 births
Living people
Canadian horror writers
Bishop's College School alumni
Canadian pentathletes
Canadian people of Irish descent
People from Aiken, South Carolina
Track and field athletes from Montreal
Canadian male novelists
Bram Stoker
Novelists from Montreal