Stoker, Dacre

Nominations:

Dracul (G.P. Putnam’s Sons), Novel, 2018

BIO: Dacre Stoker is the great grand-nephew of Bram Stoker and the international best-selling co-author of Dracula the Un-Dead (Dutton, 2009), the official Stoker family endorsed sequel to Dracula. Dacre is also the co-editor (with Elizabeth Miller) of The Lost Journal of Bram Stoker: The Dublin Years (Robson Press, 2012). His latest novel, Dracul, co-authored with JD Barker, a prequel to Dracula, released in October 2018, has been sold to publishers in fourteen territories, with film rights purchased by Paramount Studios.  Dracul was the bestselling hardcover novel in horror in the UK in 2018. A native of Montreal, Canada, Dacre taught Physical Education and Sciences for twenty-two years, in both Canada and the U.S. He has participated in the sport of Modern Pentathlon as an athlete and a coach at the international and Olympic levels for Canada for 12 years. He currently lives in Aiken, SC,  with his wife Jenne.

Dacre has consulted and appeared in recent film documentaries about vampires in literature and popular culture. The Real Vampire Files (2010 History Channel),   The Tillinghast Nightmare, (2014 Historical Haunts), Secrets of the Dead (2015 PBS),  Mysteries at the Museum, (2017 Travel Channel) Legend Hunter (2019 Travel Channel) He currently hosts tours to Transylvania to explore both the life and times of the historic Vlad Dracula lll and also the locations where Bram Stoker set his famous novel.