Dracula's Guest: From their pens to your ears, genius in every story

His early years were plagued with such ill-health that he was unable to start school until the age of seven. He turned the long periods of recovery into an opportunity for thinking and said “I was naturally thoughtful, and the leisure of long illness gave opportunity for many thoughts which were fruitful according to their kind in later years”.

Strikingly at Trinity College, Dublin his healt...