The Internet search engine giant Google is celebrating on Thursday the 165th birth anniversary of Bram Stoker, the Irish novelist and short story writer who is best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula. 

Google’s regular homepage is replaced with Stoker’s well-known fictional personalities.    

Bram Stoker was born on November 8, 1847 in Dublin. He was bedridden until he started school at the age of seven, when he made a complete recovery 

He started his writing career by becoming the theatre critic for the Dublin Evening Mail. In 1876, while a civil servant in Dublin, Stoker wrote his first book, The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland.

But his fiction novel Dracula, which was published in 1897, became a huge success. This novel was published numerous times and translated into many languages, and it became the source for a variety of theater plays and movies. 

Bram Stoker died in London on April 20, 1912.