Unlikely pals: Bram Stoker and Walt Whitman.

Walt Whitman, 1887.
Library of Congress,
Print and Photos Div.

In "When Bram Met Walt" (Humanities Nov/Dec 2012), Meredith Hindley discusses the friendship between Bram Stoker and Walt Whitman (with a cameo appearance by Sir Henry Irving; Stoker served as Irving's manager at the time).

Also of interest: this TLS review of Bram Stoker and the Stage