Gruselkabinett, Folge 35: Das Schloss des weißen Lindwurms

Geschrieben von Bram Stoker

Erzählt von Markus Pfeiffer, Katja Nottke, Anja Stadlober und Joachim Pukaß

Der junge Australier Adam Salton folgt der Einladung seines einzigen noch lebenden Verwandten nach Lesser Hill. Richard Salton hofft, dass sein Großneffe dort eines Tages sein Erbe antreten wird. Der Familiensitz liegt in einer äußerst geschichtsträchtigen Gegend, der es nicht an exzentrischen Bewohnern mangelt. Eine von ihnen ist die faszinierende Lady Arabella March, die Herrin eines auf einer Halbinsel gelegenen Schlosses

• Sprache: Deutsch
• Herausgeber: Titania Medien
• Erscheinungsdatum: 12. Jan. 2018

Bram Stoker

Bram Stoker (1847-1912) was an Irish novelist. Born in Dublin, Stoker suffered from an unknown illness as a young boy before entering school at the age of seven. He would later remark that the time he spent bedridden enabled him to cultivate his imagination, contributing to his later success as a writer. He attended Trinity College, Dublin from 1864, graduating with a BA before returning to obtain an MA in 1875. After university, he worked as a theatre critic, writing a positive review of acclaimed Victorian actor Henry Irving’s production of Hamlet that would spark a lifelong friendship and working relationship between them. In 1878, Stoker married Florence Balcombe before moving to London, where he would work for the next 27 years as business manager of Irving’s influential Lyceum Theatre. Between his work in London and travels abroad with Irving, Stoker befriended such artists as Oscar Wilde, Walt Whitman, Hall Caine, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In 1895, having published several works of fiction and nonfiction, Stoker began writing his masterpiece Dracula (1897) while vacationing at the Kilmarnock Arms Hotel in Cruden Bay, Scotland. Stoker continued to write fiction for the rest of his life, achieving moderate success as a novelist. Known more for his association with London theatre during his life, his reputation as an artist has grown since his death, aided in part by film and television adaptations of Dracula, the enduring popularity of the horror genre, and abundant interest in his work from readers and scholars around the world.