Born on November 8, 1847, in the foggy embrace of Dublin, Ireland, Abraham "Bram" Stoker began life as a child too frail to stand — literally. He spent his early years bedridden, a silent observer of a world he couldn't fully join. Perhaps it was in those quiet, shadowed hours that the seeds of his imagination were first sown. By the age of seven, Stoker rose from his sickbed as if propelled ...