![]() ![]() While testing the iron maiden, the guide is attacked by the resentful cat and lets go of the rope which held the device's doors open the heavy doors thus slammed shut, killing the protagonist. Before entering the castle, he unintentionally killed a group of kittens next to their mothers, by throwing a stone. Its protagonist is an American tourist who visits the castle and asks the guide to briefly almost close the iron maiden on him, to know how a victim of this device would have felt. ![]() Iron Maiden: Stoker's short story The Squaw is focused on the iron maiden (referred to as "Iron Virgin" in the text) exhibited in Nuremberg Castle (the device really existed it was destroyed by the Allied bombing of 1944).Trope examples from Stoker's other works include: The Lair of the White Worm (film version only).Works by Stoker with their own trope pages: The Horror Writers of America's Bram Stoker Award is named in his honor. Most of these are less well known today, although The Jewel of Seven Stars and The Lair of the White Worm have also been adapted for screen. ![]() In his own lifetime, he was best known as a theater manager and critic.Īpart from Dracula, Stoker penned about a dozen other novels, as well as a number of short stories. ![]() Abraham "Bram" Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish author whose greatest and most lasting success was undoubtedly the prototypical vampire novel Dracula. ![]()
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