The novelist Bram Stoker died at the age of 64. Here is all you want to know, and more!
Biography - A Short Wiki
Author of the famous 1897 horror novel, Dracula, which has been adapted into countless films. He is considered a Gothic writer of the Victorian era.
In 1878, he married Florence Balcombe, who had previously been romantically pursued by Oscar Wilde. Stoker and his wife had one child, Irving Noel Thornley Stoker.
Quotes
"It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.
"A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
"And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again.
"How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
"There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.