Abraham “Bram” Stoker (1847 – 1912) was an Irish author whose best known work is Dracula. He was also the personal assistant of actor Sir Henry Irving, who owned Westminster’s Lyceum Theater. Aside from Dracula, his body of work also includes The Lair of the White Worm, which was adapted into a film in 1988. Stoker had an interest in mesmerism, a form of hypnotism.
