He taught for several years at Appleby College.

He is the great-grand nephew 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. Stoker directed, produced and wrote 2011 the documentary film Dracula meets Stoker.ĭacre Calder Stoker is a Canadian-American author, sportsman and filmmaker, and the great-grand nephew of Irish author Bram Stoker, who authored the 1897 Gothic novel Dracula.ĭacre Calder Stoker was born 23 August 1958 in Montreal, Quebec. Stoker contributed to Dracula in Visual Media: Film, Television, Comic Book and Electronic Game Appearances, 1921-2010, along with Caroline Joan Picart, David J.

This also marked Dacre Stoker's writing debut. In 2009, Dracula: The Un-Dead was released, written by Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt.īoth writers claim to have 'based on Bram Stoker's own handwritten notes for characters and plot threads excised from the original edition' along with their own research for the sequel, though the plot and characters often directly contradict the original novel. Because of the Stokers' frustrating history with Dracula's copyright, Dacre with encouragement from screenwriter Ian Holt, decided to write 'a sequel that bore the Stoker name' to 'reestablish creative control over' the original novel. Montreal, Urban agglomeration of Montreal, Canada

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