Dacre Calder Stoker (born August 23, 1958) is a Canadian-American author, sportsman and filmmaker.

Biography

Stoker was born in

Montreal, Quebec Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous city in the Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as '' Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple-pea ...

. He is the great-grandnephew of Irish author

Bram Stoker Abraham Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish author who is celebrated for his 1897 Gothic horror novel '' Dracula''. During his lifetime, he was better known as the personal assistant of actor Sir Henry Irving and busine ...

, the author of the 1897

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novel ''

Dracula ''Dracula'' is a novel by Bram Stoker, published in 1897. As an epistolary novel, the narrative is related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles. It has no single protagonist, but opens with solicitor Jonathan Harker taking ...

''. He lived in his childhood in Montreal, Quebec"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 Appleby College, a leading Canadian day and boarding school, is an international independent school (grades 7–12) located in Oakville, Ontario, Canada, founded in 1911 by John Guest, a former Headmaster of the Preparatory School at Upper Canada ...

. Stoker is a former member of the Canadian men's pentathlon team. He coached the team at the

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. 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. In 2009, ''

Dracula the Un-dead ''Dracula the Un-dead'' is a 2009 sequel to Bram Stoker's classic 1897 novel '' Dracula''. The book was written by Bram Stoker's great-grandnephew Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt. Previously, Holt had been a direct-to-DVD horror screenwriter, and Stok ...

'' was released, written by Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt. Both writers claim to have "based heir workon 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. This also marked Dacre Stoker's writing debut. ''

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'' reviewer Kenneth MacKendrick called it "tempting enough to read and bad enough to be controversial, striking a balance between sensationalism and mediocrity". 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 John Gordon Melton (born September 19, 1942) is an American religious scholar who was the founding director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion and is currently the Distinguished Professor of American Religious History with the Ins ...

and

John Edgar Browning John Edgar Browning (born October 14, 1980) is an American author, editor, and scholar known for his nonfiction works about the horror genre and vampires in film, literature, and culture. Previously a visiting lecturer at the Georgia Institute o ...

. Stoker directed, produced and wrote the 2011 documentary film ''Dracula meets Stoker''. In 2016, Stoker, with his colleague Hans C. De Roos, was working on a Bram Stoker Dracula travel guide which will identify real-life locations mentioned in Stoker's novel as well as highlight the places Bram grew up in. In 2018, he released '' Dracul'', a prequel to ''Dracula'' which he wrote alongside

J. D. Barker J.D. Barker, or Jonathan Dylan Barker, (born 1971) is a ''New York Times'' and international bestselling American author of thriller (genre), suspense thrillers, often incorporating elements of horror, crime, mystery, science fiction, and the supe ...

. Paramount has purchased the rights for the movie. Director

Andy Muschietti Andrés Muschietti (; born August 26, 1973) is an Argentine filmmaker who achieved wide recognition with the 2013 film ''Mama'' which he made with Neil Cross and his sister, producer and screenwriter Barbara Muschietti, based on their three-minut ...

, '' It'' producers

Barbara Muschietti Bárbara Muschietti (born December 22, 1971) is an Argentine film producer and screenwriter, best known for producing the 2013 horror film ''Mama'' and the 2017 and 2019 adaptations of Stephen King's '' It'', all of which were directed by her bro ...

and

Roy Lee Roy Lee (born March 23, 1969) is an American film producer. Lee's production company, Vertigo Entertainment, has a first-look deal with Warner Bros. Early life Lee was born in 1969 at Wyckoff Heights Hospital, in Brooklyn, New York, to Korean p ...

have been hired to work on it.

Personal life

His wife, Jenne Stoker, and their two children live in

Aiken, South Carolina Aiken is the largest city in, and the county seat of, Aiken County, in western South Carolina. It is one of the two largest cities of the Central Savannah River Area. Founded in 1835, Aiken was named after William Aiken, the president of the Sout ...

, where he is the executive director of the Aiken Land Conservancy.

Bibliography

* 2009, Dracula: The Un-Dead * 2018, Dracul (co-author with J.D. Barker) * 2021, The Virgin's Embrace: A thrilling adaptation of a story originally written by Bram Stoker (Stokerverse) * 2021, Dracula's Bedlam (StokerVerse Book 2)

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Stoker, Dacre 1958 births Living people Canadian horror writers Bishop's College School alumni Canadian pentathletes Canadian people of Irish descent People from Aiken, South Carolina Athletes from Montreal Writers from Montreal Canadian male novelists Bram Stoker