Romster

Hi everyone well Im coming to you all here from Ireland, Co Kildare just outside Dublin to be precise, and Ive just literally today started reading 'Necroscope'. It was given to me by a friend of mine who has (to call it an obsession would do it no justice but I shall) an obsession with Vampires. She said that I may enjoy it, its not my normal reading material Im more a detective, crime fighting, kind of girl, but I am prone to paranormal and gruesome and beyond the realms of every day life occurences too, so with that in mind, I started reading. Anyway the reason I stopped abrubtly to log on and google this website was that Ive just LITERALLy came upon the part in the book where Kinkovsi is explaining the myth, legend if you like of Dracule or Dracula to Boris and he said and I quote lol......the creature is only a character in a story by a clever English man............Bram Stoker was IRISH!!!!!!!! Ive had this argument with several people right back when I first read Dracula, when I visited the house that Bram Stoker grew up in, in Fairview in Dublin, when I visited the Bram Stoker experience which is directly across the road from the house Bram Stoker grew up in. There seems to be a common misconception that he was an Englishman. Yes I know that he later emigrated to the UK and when his works became worldwide famous they as they normally though claimed him as their own, but I assure you that he was very much an Irish man from Dublin. So much so that its been said that when he first drafted Dracula the scene of the whole story the settings were based on Dublin with Dublin place, street names etc, but......the English didnt like that so they told him that in order for it to be published and for his funds to remain he needed to remove Ireland from it altogther, so he came up with Transylvannia, where if you read the descriptions of the area very clearly, they resemble the docks, dark damp streets, houses and areas of Dublin during that time. Its been said that some of the descriptions are so exact they're exactly describing and area near Fairview know as Ballybough, so sorry Brian (I will keep reading necroscope Im enjoying it alot) but for an Englishman you should of know that one of the most famous authors of all time was in fact a Paddy! A true Irishman.....Thank you for taking the time to read this.