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'Dracula' author's great-grandnephew to speak, sign book today, Tuesday in Canton

Posted 10/24/11

CANTON -- Dacre Stoker, great-grandnephew of Dracula author Bram Stoker, will speak Monday and Tuesday at St. Lawrence University. Stoker will be at the Brewer Bookstore Monday, Oct. 24 at 4:30 p.m. …

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'Dracula' author's great-grandnephew to speak, sign book today, Tuesday in Canton

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CANTON -- Dacre Stoker, great-grandnephew of Dracula author Bram Stoker, will speak Monday and Tuesday at St. Lawrence University.

Stoker will be at the Brewer Bookstore Monday, Oct. 24 at 4:30 p.m. and give a short presentation and question-and-answer session followed by a signing of his sequel, “Dracula: The Un-Dead.”

He will also speak at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 25, in the Sullivan Student Center.

The Class of 1981 graduate will discuss "The Mysteries Behind the Writing of Bram Stoker's Dracula, and the Research behind the Writing of the Sequel, Dracula: The Un-Dead."

The event is free and open to the public. Dacre is co-author of the first authorized sequel to the book written by his famous relative.

He is executive director of the Aiken Land Conservancy in Aiken, SC. After college, he was a member of the Canadian men's modern pentathlon team and coach of the Canadian men's modern pentathlon Olympic Team for the games held in Seoul, South Korea, in 1988.