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Dacre Calder Stoker (born August 23, 1958) is the great grand-nephew of Bram Stoker and the international best-selling co-author of Dracula the Un-Dead (2009), and Dracul (2018). Dacre 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 and E.G. Calder. He is the great-grandnephew of Irish author Bram Stoker, the author of the 1897 Gothic novel Dracula. He lived in his childhood in Montreal, Quebec 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 Classic 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, audios, comics, short stories, RPG, 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 2024Personal 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 ISBN 978-0525951292 Bram Stoker's Lost Journal: The Dublin 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 adaptation of a story originally written by Bram Stoker, 2021 (with Chris McAuley) ISBN 978-1789825503 Dracula's Bedlam, 2022 (with Chris McAuley and John 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 the 125th Anniversary, 2022 (with Robert Eighteen-Bisang) ISBN 978-1-953905-38-3 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 2024References External links Dacre Stoker at IMDb Dacre Stoker at Library of Congress, with 2 library catalogue records. Discover the Dacre Stoker Jd Barker popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Dacre Stoker Jd Barker books.

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