Jack “The Agnostic” Garcia examines the life and work of the great Bram Stoker. The author spent 27 years as the theatrical manager for the British actor Henry Irving, often working 18 hours a day for his psychic-vampire like employer. During this period Bram began writing Horror fiction , creating several masterpieces of the Macabre – including the classic Gothic novel Dracula. The basis for an entire genre of literature, film and Vampire entertainment. Stoker struggled with poverty and obscurity his entire life and was almost forgotten, but ultimately like his fictional Vampire character – would rise up from the grave and become one of the most researched and written about authors in history.

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