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Born November 8^th 1847 in Clontarf, just outside of Dublin, Abraham (Bram) Stoker was one of seven children. The Irish Potato Famine was just beginning to take hold at this point, but the seaside village of Clontarf and the Stoker family escaped the worst of it.

Stoker was a sickly child, suffering from an undiagnosed and unrecorded illness which historians today are unable to guess at.

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We do know though, that Stoker was confined to his bed for the first seven years of his life as he could barely walk. He was carried everywhere and underwent bloodletting in a bid for a cure. He was not expected to live to adolescence.

Whilst residing in bed, Stoker enjoyed listening to his mother’s tales of Irish folklore: leprechauns, selkies, fairies, banshees and bloodsuckers abounded in gothic and supernatural mythology with underlying themes of famine and disease.

She also shared gruesome tales of the cholera epidemic of 1832 which ran through the town of Sligo, where she lived. Stories of