An apparent friendship between Dracula writer Bram Stoker and a Daily Mail journalist may have helped play a key role in promoting the famous vampire novel, the author’s family have revealed.
Robert Leighton, the newspaper’s late 19th-century literary editor, sent a ‘quite personal’ letter to Stoker – highlighted as ‘remarkable’ by one of the Irish writer’s relatives.
Dacre Stoker, who has researched and written extensively about his great, great uncle, highlighted the correspondence from Leighton to Bram in late May 1897, just before Dracula was published.
In it, the journalist begins by asking Stoker to compare himself with the fictitious Count, requesting ‘two
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