{"id":992,"date":"2012-04-22T11:21:12","date_gmt":"2012-04-22T16:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/?p=992"},"modified":"2012-04-22T13:30:58","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T18:30:58","slug":"bram-stoker-a-late-bloomer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/bram-stoker-a-late-bloomer\/","title":{"rendered":"Bram Stoker a Late Bloomer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1191\" style=\"margin: 0pt 30px 30px 0px;\" title=\"Bram Stoker 1906\" src=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Bram_Stoker_1906-e1335110221214.jpg\" alt=\"Bram Stoker 1906\" width=\"175\" height=\"226\" \/>April 20th marked 100 years since the death of Bram Stoker, the author of <em><a title=\"Dracula Quotes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=Dracula\">Dracula<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>An interesting fact about Stoker is that he was a late bloomer in terms of his writing career.\u00a0 His work history included theater critic, civil servant and 27 years spent as the manager of the Lyceum Theater in London.\u00a0 Stoker didn&#8217;t publish <em>Dracula<\/em> until he was fifty years old.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road, a long, agonized wailing, as if from fear. The sound was taken up by another dog, and then another and another, till, borne on the wind which now sighed softly through the Pass, a wild howling began, which seemed to come from all over the country, as far as the imagination could grasp it through the gloom of the night.<\/strong> ~ <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=Dracula\"> Dracula<\/a><\/em> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=Bram%20Stoker\">Bram Stoker<\/a><\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p><center>[amazon_carousel widget_type=&#8221;SearchAndAdd&#8221; width=&#8221;450&#8243; height=&#8221;200&#8243; title=&#8221;&#8221; market_place=&#8221;US&#8221; shuffle_products=&#8221;False&#8221; show_border=&#8221;False&#8221; keywords=&#8221;dracula&#8221; browse_node=&#8221;&#8221; search_index=&#8221;DVD&#8221; \/]<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 20th marked 100 years since the death of Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula. An interesting fact about Stoker is that he was a late bloomer in terms of his writing career.\u00a0 His work history included theater critic, civil <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[271,270],"class_list":["post-992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everything-else","tag-bram-stoker","tag-dracula"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}