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  • stoker: a person who tends the furnace on a steamship or steam locomotive
  • Bram Stoker: (1847 – 1912) an Irish novelist and short story writer, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula. During his lifetime, he was better known as personal assistant of actor Henry Irving and business manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London, which Irving owned.