I vant to read yore novil.

On this day in 1897 London bookshops began selling Irish novelist Bram Stoker's Dracula.  Stoker wrote drama reviews for the Dublin Mail, served as a manager for the actor Sir Henry Irving and along the way wrote 17 novels.  None of his 1912 obits even mentioned Dracula by name, but then in the twenties the novel was adapted for the stage, and in 1931 for the film starring Bela Lugosi.  The rest, of course, is heestory.