Bram Stoker 
Snake’s Pass 

The Snake’s Pass is an 1890 novel by Bram Stoker. It centres on the legend of Saint Patrick defeating the King of the Snakes in Ireland, as well as on the troubled romance between the main character and a local peasant girl. The Snake’s Pass was Stoker’s second imperial fiction novel, and was first published in the United Kingdom in 1890. The novel is a precursor to Stoker’s Dracula.