Possible Clues:

• Bram ...... wrote 'Dracula'
• 'Dracula' writer
• He's in the firing line
• Dracula's creator
• For him it's all right to be among the rest for the firing
• Mark of pen's right out of order for author
• He wrote tale swallowing gassy beer, finishing neither
• Author Pat runs right down
• Creator of bloodthirsty character, one adding fuel to the fire
• One tending furnace