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David J. Skal

Biography

David J. Skal

David J. Skal is a leading American cultural historian and critic of horror films and Gothic literature. The author of SOMETHING IN THE BLOOD, THE MONSTER SHOW and HOLLYWOOD GOTHIC, he lives in Glendale, California.

David J. Skal

Books by David J. Skal

by David J. Skal - Biography, History, Nonfiction

First published in 1897, DRACULA has had a long and multifaceted afterlife --- one rivaling even its immortal creation --- yet Bram Stoker has remained a hovering specter in this pervasive mythology. In SOMETHING IN THE BLOOD, David J. Skal exhumes the inner world and strange genius of the writer who birthed an undying cultural icon, painting an astonishing portrait of the age in which Stoker was born --- a time when death was no metaphor but a constant threat easily imagined as a character existing in flesh and blood.