Dacre Stoker

This article is about the Canadian author. For the Irish navy officer and actor whose stage name was Dacre Stoker, see Henry Hugh Gordon Stoker.

Dacre Stoker
Born
Dacre Calder Stoker

(1958-08-23) August 23, 1958
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Occupations
SpouseJenne Stoker
RelativesCharlotte Stoker (great-great-grandmother)
Thornley Stoker (great-uncle)
Bram Stoker (great-uncle)
Websitedacrestoker.com

Dacre Calder Stoker (born August 23, 1958) is a Canadian-American writer, teacher, modern pentathlete and coach based in South Carolina.[1]

Biography

Dacre Calder Stoker was born on August 23, 1958 in Montreal, Quebec to Desmond Neil Stoker (1927–1983) and Eleanor Gail Stoker (née Calder; 1933–2018).[1][2][3][4][5] Stoker's mother was a nurse [5] whilst his father was the vice-president and director of Nesbitt Thomson Bongard Inc. and served as chairman of the board of the Montreal Stock Exchange. Through his father Stoker is the great-grandson of the military surgeon George Stoker (1854–1920), and is the great-grandnephew of Bram Stoker.[6][7][8]

Stoker is a former member of the Canadian men's pentathlon team, and was the coach for the 1988 Olympic Canadian pentathlon team.[1][9] Stoker was a teacher at Appleby College.[1]

Films

Stoker has consulted and appeared in recent film documentaries about vampires in literature and popular culture: The Real Vampire Files (2010 History Channel), The Tillinghast Nightmare (2014, Historical Haunts), Secrets of the Dead (2015 PBS), Mysteries at the Museum (2017 Travel Channel), Legend Hunter (2019 Travel Channel), American Vampires (2022 Fox Nation).

Stoker has two documentary films in production in 2024: The Search for Dracula's Castle, directed by Cornelius Tepelus and written by Dacre Stoker, and The Father of Dracula, directed by Jason Figgis and written by John West.

Stoker contributed to Dracula in Visual Media: Film, Television, Comic Book and Electronic Game Appearances, 1921–2010, along with Caroline Joan Picart, David J. Skal, J. Gordon Melton and John Edgar Browning.[10]

In 2018, he released Dracul, a prequel to Dracula which he wrote alongside J. D. Barker.[11][12][13] Paramount has purchased the rights for the movie. Director Andy Muschietti, It producers Barbara Muschietti and Roy Lee have been hired to work on it.[14]

Lectures & recent work

Dacre's recent work includes Dracula, Annotated for the 125th Anniversary (2022) with Robert Eighteen-Bisang, Dracula's Bedlam (2021) with Chris McAuley and John Peel, The Virgin's Embrace (2021) with Chris McAuley (a graphic novel adaptation of Bram Stoker's short story The Squaw [1893]), and Dracula The Return, Cult of the White Worm (2022) with Chris McAuley (an original graphic novel). He has released short stories with author Leverett Butts, including: Last Days in Weird Tales Magazine January 2021, The Tired Captain in FX's Sherlock Holmes Anthology, Enter the Dragon in the Classic Monsters Unleashed Anthology January 2022, and The Lost Warrior in the Dracula UnFanged Anthology.

The StokerVerse

Dacre Stoker has teamed up with Chris McAuley to create the StokerVerse, a range of novels, audio, comics, short stories, RPGs, board and video game franchise emanating from all of Bram Stoker's life's work. Recently they have provided backstories, insight, and a license to these game creators:

  • Dracula RPG Nightfall Games 2022
  • Dracula Crooked Dice 7TV Wargame 2022
  • Dracula Dark Reign, a retro hand held video game expected out in 2024

Personal life

Stoker lives with his wife, Jenne, in Aiken, South Carolina, where he is the executive director of Aiken Streetscapes, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving and protecting Aiken's grand trees.

Selected bibliography

  • Dracula the Un-dead, 2009 ISBN 978-0525951292
  • Bram Stoker's Lost Journal: The Dublin Years, 2012 ISBN 978-1-953905-18-5
  • Dracul, 2018 (co-author with J.D. Barker) ISBN 978-0735219342
  • The Virgin's Embrace: A thrilling adaptation of a story originally written by Bram Stoker, 2021 (with Chris McAuley) ISBN 978-1789825503
  • Dracula's Bedlam, 2022 (with Chris McAuley and John Peel) ISBN 978-1789828528
  • Slains Castle's Secret History: Warlords, Churchill, and Count Dracula, 2022 (co-author with Mike Shepherd) ISBN 978-1-953905-28-4
  • Dracula, Annotated for the 125th Anniversary, 2022 (with Robert Eighteen-Bisang) ISBN 978-1-953905-38-3
  • Dracula The Return, The Cult of the White Worm, edition #1 Scratch Comix, 2023
  • Dracula The Return, The Cult of the White Worm, edition #2 Scratch Comix 2024

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Dracula sequel goes back to source". CBC Arts. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. 28 October 2009. Retrieved 16 December 2025.
  2. ^ "Dacre Calder Stoker". Voter Registration Lists; Public Record Filings, Historical Residential Records, and Other Household Database Listings. 1. U.S. Public Records Index. 1993.
  3. ^ "Desmond Neil Stoker", Selected Passenger and Crew Lists and Manifests; Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1787 - 2004, Washington, D.C.: National Archives, 1959
  4. ^ "STOKER, Desmond Neil". The Gazette. Montreal, Quebec. 19 May 1983. p. 74. Retrieved 16 December 2025.
  5. ^ a b "STOKER, Eleanor". The Gazette. Montreal, Quebec. 12 May 2018. p. C13. Retrieved 16 December 2025.
  6. ^ Barnett, David (11 October 2018). "21 years after Bram Stoker's 'Dracula', his great-grandnephew has resurrected the vampire... and his creator". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 22 May 2025. Retrieved 16 December 2025.
  7. ^ Doyle, Carmel (2009). "Stoker, Sir (William) Thornley". Dictionary of Irish Biography. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. Retrieved 14 December 2025.
  8. ^ "Stoker's mother 'very ahead of her time'". Irish Independent. Dublin: Mediahuis Ireland. 25 April 2012. Retrieved 14 December 2025.
  9. ^ Kenneth MacKendrick (17 October 2009). "Surprise, revisiting Dracula a marketing plan". Winnipeg Free Press.
  10. ^ Browning, John Edgar (2010). Dracula in Visual Media: Film, Television, Comic Book and Electronic Game Appearances, 1921-2010. McFarland. ISBN 978-0786433650.
  11. ^ Apostolides, Zoë (26 October 2018). "Dracul by Dacre Stoker and JD Barker — encounter culture". Financial Times. Retrieved 19 February 2019.
  12. ^ Spry, Jeff (2 October 2018). "Dacre Stoker and J.D. Barker Sink Their Pens Into New Dracula Prequel Novel, Dracul". Syfy Wire. Retrieved 19 February 2019.
  13. ^ Shapiro, Lila (3 October 2018). "Dracul Sets Out to Prove That Count Dracula Really Lived". Vulture. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
  14. ^ Fleming, Mike Jr. (5 September 2017). "Paramount Bites Into 'Dracul': 'It' Director Andy Muschietti In Mix". Deadline. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
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