Stoker’s Shadow tells the story of the late Bram Stoker’s surviving family members and their struggle to come to grips with the veritable explosion of popularity enjoyed by his novel, Dracula. Florence, Bram’s widow, is torn between allowing the German company, Prana Films, to screen a film called Nosferatu and preserving the dignity of her husband and her family name. William, the son of Bram and Florence, is in favour of allowing the film to go ahead and doesn’t understand his mother’s reluctance.

Mary, the free-spirited young Irish woman living with the Stokers as a companion for Florence, is quite taken with London and all its mysteries. After being snubbed by Florence on several occasions, Mary finds escape in her copy of Dracula, and soon becomes infatuated with William, who shares her love of Stoker’s brilliant novel.

Paul Butler is the author of several critically acclaimed novels including Titanic Ashes, Cupids, Hero, 1892, NaGeira, Easton’s Gold, Easton, and Stoker’s Shadow. His work has appeared on the judges’ lists for Canada Reads, the Relit Longlist for three consecutive years, and he was a winner in the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters Awards four times between 2003 and 2008 at which time he retired from the competition to be literary representative, and then chair, of the Arts and Letters Committee. A graduate of Norman Jewison’s Canadian Film Centre, Butler has written for the Globe and Mail, the Beaver, Books in Canada, Atlantic Books Today, and Canadian Geographic, and has also contributed to CBC Radio, local and national. He presently lives in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, where he works as an editor, runs online writing workshops, and holds an annual writing contest.

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