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“How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula (1897)

Delighted to announce Dacre Stoker, great grandnephew of Bram, will read from his work ‘Dracul’ in Sligo Library 23/10 with Q&A hosted by Dr. Fiona Gallagher, author of ‘Streets of Sligo’
https://t.co/mBkjeMtMHY

Happy Yeats Day 2019 to our WB Yeats loving friends! He and Stoker had much in common: Sligo mothers; Irish writers living in London; they knew each other via the salons hosted by this lady: the writer Jane Wilde aka Sperenza #YeatsDaySligo #yeatsday2019

Listeners to this morning’s @RyanTubridyShow were enthralled to hear of the origins of Dracula in Sligo, a story well told by studio guest and expert in dark local history @MelcooTours To find out more read: https://t.co/IPhxHiSPyk

Much of the Gothic artwork of Carl Gustav Carus (1789-1869) could double as illustrations for ‘Dracula’.
A German Romanticist (he studied under Caspar David Friedrich) he was also a physician, biologist, and philosopher.

“Never did tombs look so ghastly white. Never did cypress, or yew, or juniper so seem the embodiment of funeral gloom. Never did tree or grass wave or rustle so ominously...”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula (1897)
Pic: Carl G Carus (1789-1869)

Cholera victims in New York drawn in 1832:
Deaths in New York totalled 3,515; in Sligo approx 1,500
More here:
https://t.co/dsDDNBvijS
#cholera1832