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unusual facts about Stoker



Akiyama Yoshifuru

Born as the third son to a poor samurai in the Matsuyama Domain, Iyo Province (modern Ehime Prefecture), Akiyama's family was so poor in his childhood that he was forced to work as a fire stoker and janitor in a local public bathhouse for a pittance each day.

Alex Battler

Alex Battler was born in Astrakhan into a family of service-industry workers (his father was a stoker, his mother a saleswoman).

Austin Stoker

Stoker is known to Mystery Science Theater 3000 fans for his role as Dr. Ken Melrose in the 1982 B-movie, Being from Another Planet (also known as Time Walker), in which he appeared with Darwin Joston, his co-star from Assault on Precinct 13.

Bram Stoker's Legend of the Mummy

Bram Stoker's Legend of the Mummy, or simply Bram Stoker's The Mummy, is a film based on Bram Stoker's novel The Jewel of Seven Stars.

Carfax

The fictional home of Count Dracula in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel; in the 1931 film and several subsequent adaptations, it became "Carfax Abbey".

Castle Dracula

The Hotel Castel Dracula, located in Piâtra Fântânele in the Borgo Pass, which promotes itself as being constructed at the place of Stoker's Castle, at least is located at the point where Harker left the post carriage from Bistritz to Bukovina to be picked up by the Count; their route must have lead over the former watchpost of Dornișoara towards the Kelemen peaks in the south-east.

Charles Jamrach

Stoker also mentions Jamrach, perhaps even more briefly, in his last novel, The Lair of the White Worm.

Dacre Stoker

Dacre Calder Stoker (born 23 August 1958) is a Canadian-American author, sportsman and filmmaker, and the great-grand nephew of Irish author Bram Stoker, who authored the 1897 Gothic novel Dracula.

David Niall Wilson

The Gossamer Eye (2002, ISBN 1-892065-64-9, with Mark McLaughlin and Rain Graves) (winner of the 2003 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in the Poetry Collection category)

Dracula 4: The Shadow of the Dragon

There she meets Vambery's former assistant, Adam Stoker, Bram Stoker's great-grandson.

Dracula 5: The Blood Legacy

Ellen is shocked, however, to instead see a portrait of Vambery's former assistant, Adam Stoker, great-grandson of Bram Stoker, which comes to life and grows fangs.

Dracula the Undead

Dracula the Un-dead, a 2009 novel written by Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt

Eddie Robson

He has also written books on film noir and the Coen Brothers for Virgin Publishing, the Doctor Who episode guide Who's Next with co-authors Mark Clapham and Jim Smith, and an illustrated adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Els Quatre Gats

The bar hosted revolving art exhibits, including one of the first one-man shows by Pablo Picasso; the most prominent piece in its permanent collection was a lighthearted Casas self-portrait, depicting him smoking a pipe while pedaling a tandem bicycle with Romeu as his stoker.

Florence Balcombe

The Stokers moved to London, where Stoker became acting-manager and then business manager of Henry Irving's Lyceum Theatre, London, a post he held for 27 years.

Frederick Thornhill

Thornhill was born in Beeston, Nottinghamshire, the son of Richard Thornhill and his wife Eliza Reynolds and became an engine stoker for the Midland Railway.

HMS G11

The body of Telegraphist George Philip Back was recovered and buried in the churchyard of St Peter & St Paul, Longhoughton; the body of Stoker Pliny Foster was never found.

John Bythesea

On 9 August 1854 in the Baltic, Lieutenant Bythesea obtained permission to land on the island of Vårdö, Åland Islands off Finland with a Swedish-speaking crewman Stoker William Johnstone, to intercept important despatches from the Czar which were being sent via Vårdö to Bomarsund.

John Penney

In 2011 John wrote and directed the supernatural thriller Shadows starring Hurt and Cary Elwes which was awarded the 2011 Best Film at the Bram Stoker International Film Festival in England as well as winning Best Horror Film at the 2011 Fantasy Horror Awards in Italy.

Mike Stoker

Charles Michael "Mike" Stoker (born June 25, 1941, in Los Angeles CA) is a retired firefighter, engineer and captain with the Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACoFD).

NeocoreGames

In May 2012 the company announced the development of a role-playing game based on Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Robert Burdon Stoker

Stoker was also a director of the Manchester Ship Canal Company and was elected president of the Manchester Steamship Owners Association.

South African Class 16B 4-6-2

Of the Class 16B locomotives, number 805 has some claim to fame, since long time South African Minister of Transport Ben Schoeman started his Railway career at Braamfontein as a stoker on this locomotive during the 1930s.

The Gardella Vampire Chronicles

One of the characters (Miss Stoker) is a descendant of Victoria Gardella, as well as being the sister of Bram Stoker.

Vampire: The Requiem

Ventrue are regal vampires who value power and dominion to the point of obsession, self-styled "lords of the night" they represent vampirism as a metaphor for maddening power, like Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Will Stoker and the Embers

Returning to Perth in 2007, Stoker reformed the band with Brett Murray ( The Wire Complex) added on keyboards and entered the band in the Next Big Thing band competition and the National Campus Band Competition.

William Lashly

At the time he joined Scott's Discovery expedition in 1901, he was a 33-year-old leading stoker in the Royal Navy, serving on HMS Duke of Wellington.


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