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EXCLUSIVE! Bram Stoker’s Dracula Fiction or Biography?

Mike Church of The Mike Church Show & KV Turley of Turley’s Believe It Or Else, explore the mystery of Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

SPECIAL GUEST KV Turley

• Bram Stoker his first name was actually Abraham.
• What possessed him to ‘create’ the fictional character Dracula?
• He had a propensity for anagrams and secret codes.
• Her (Florence) former lover was Oscar Wilde.

HEADLINE: Bram Stoker Claimed That Parts of Dracula Were Real. Here’s What We Know About the Story Behind the Novel by Dacre Stoker and JD Barker

• For fans of the novel Dracula, the information above takes on a familiar note. We all know the name. There’s the graveyard, the Abbey, the dog, and of course, the ship — but it was called The Demeter, right? Not Dmitri… In the book, yes, but in real life it was Dmitri. And there was a “real life.” Bram had found a blurry place between fact and fiction and that surely put a smile on the Irishman’s face.
• When Bram Stoker wrote his iconic novel, the original preface, which was published in Makt Myrkanna, the Icelandic version of the story, included this passage: I am quite convinced that there is no doubt whatever that the events here described really took place, however unbelievable and incomprehensible they might appear at first sight. And I am further convinced that they must always remain to some extent incomprehensible.
• He went on to claim that many of the characters in his novel were real people: All the people who have willingly — or unwillingly — played a part in this remarkable story are known generally and well respected. Both Jonathan Harker and his wife (who is a woman of character) and Dr. Seward are my friends and have been so for many years, and I have never doubted that they were telling the truth…
• Bram Stoker did not intend for Dracula to serve as fiction, but as a warning of a very real evil, a childhood nightmare all too real.

BACK to KV Turley

• Worried of the impact of presenting such a story as true, his editor, Otto Kyllman, of Archibald Constable & Company, returned the manuscript with a single word of his own: No.
• Bram Stoker left breadcrumbs; you need only know where to look. Some of those clues were discovered in a recently translated first edition of Dracula from Iceland titled Makt Myrkranna, or Power of Darkness. Within that first edition, Bram left not only his original preface intact, but parts of his original story — outside the reach of his U.K. publisher. More can be found within the short story Dracula’s Guest, now known to have been excised from the original text. Then there were his notes, his journals, other first editions worldwide. Unable to tell his story as a whole, he spread it out where, much like his famous vampire, it never died, only slept, waited.
• Masonic Strategy – it’s a place of secrets.
• It isn’t known if Stoker was a Free Mason or not.
• His brother was certainly a member of the Grand Lodge of Ireland.
• Stokers name wasn’t in the records of the Grand Lodge of Ireland.
• The records only go back to 1912 and that was the year Stoker died. 
• Master is a word used not frequently but used in context of Renfield in the book.
• We need to clarify here is there any evidence that Stoker used his autobiographical to create fiction prior to Dracula?
• Jack the Ripper was an unidentified serial killer active in and around the impoverished Whitechapel district of London, England, in 1888. In both criminal case files and the contemporaneous journalistic accounts, the killer was also called the Whitechapel Murderer and Leather Apron.
• This is the story that KV revealed to Maggie and I at this pub in late August 2015.
• Who is the book dedicated to?
• “Hommy-Beg” will appear on the front page.