A stoker of the Freudian fires

29 June 1996 · The Irish Times

Frank McLynn

Bram Stoker Estate account

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Frank McLynn finds Barbara Belford’s biography lively and well researched, particularly in its account of Victorian literature and the occult. He considers its Freudian reading of Dracula while questioning whether the surviving record can rescue Bram’s wider career from the novel’s shadow.

Frank McLynn’s review appears in The Irish Times, 29 June 1996. The complete publisher account was inspected; an earlier source label incorrectly named The Independent. The review’s Freudian interpretation and medical or marital speculation are critical claims, not established facts adopted by the Estate.

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