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TIL that, when writing Dracula, Bram Stoker was greatly influenced by his father’s interest in theatre and his mother’s gruesome stories about her childhood during the cholera epidemic in 1832.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/irish-epidemic-inspired-dracula
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