Bram Stoker of whom was Sir Thornley Stoker, 1st Bt.. Abraham and Charlotte were members of the Church of Ireland Parish of Clontarf and attended the parish church with their children, who were baptised there, and Abraham was a senior civil servant. Stoker was bedridden with an unknown illness until he started school at the age of seven, when he made a complete recovery. Of this time, Stoker wrote, "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." He was educated in a private school run
Usman T. Malik Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year", and The "Year’s Best Weird Fiction". In 2014 Malik became the first Pakistani to win the Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction with his story "The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family." Usman T. Malik Usman T. Malik is an award-winning speculative fiction author from Pakistan. His short fiction has been published in magazines and books such as "The Apex Book of World SF", Nightmare, Strange Horizons, and Black Static and in a number of "year's best" anthologies. He is the first Pakistani to win the Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction.