Henry Irving is Victorian London's most celebrated actor and mpresario. As his Lyceum Theatre grows in reputation, he first lures t company a young Dublin clerk harboring literary ambitions by the name of Bram Stoker; he is then joined by the century's most beloved actress, the dazzlingly talented leading lady Ellen Terry, who nightly casts a speli noi only on her audiences but on Stoker and Irving both. Bram Stoker's extraordinary experiences at the Lyceum Theatre and his troubled relations with both Irving and Terry inspire him to write the most iconic and best-selling supernatural tale ever published.