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[[File:photo-Bram-Stoker.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Bram Stoker]]

Abraham "Bram" Stoker (8 november 1847 - 20 april 1912) was an Irish writer wellknown for his novel ''Dracula''. He was a friend of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. He was at his marriage on 18 september 1907. In that same year he conducted and wrote an interview with Conan Doyle: [[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Tells of His Career and Work, His Sentiments Towards America, and His Approaching Marriage]].

When Bram Stoker managed ''The Lyceum Theatre'' in London, he produced the Conan Doyle play [[A Story of Waterloo]] (based on the story [[A Straggler of '15]]). Conan Doyle wrote in his autobiography: '' « I had written a short story called "A Straggler of '15," which had seemed to me to be a moving picture of an old soldier and his ways. My own eyes were moist as I wrote it and that is the surest way to moisten those of others. I now turned this into a one-act play, and, greatly daring, I sent it to Henry Irving, of whose genius I had been a fervent admirer ever since those Edinburgh days when I had paid my sixpence for the gallery night after night to see him in "Hamlet" and "The Lyons Mail." To my great delight I had a pleasing note from Bram Stoker, the great man's secretary, offering me £100 for the copyright. » ''

Stoker was a Sherlock Holmes fan, he thought he could use it as a model in a first version of ''Dracula'', as a specialist of psychic research named Singleton, with a policeman named Cotford and a watson-like history teacher named Max Windshoeffel.

Stoker and Conan Doyle both collaborated with other writers on the serial novel: [[The Fate of Fenella]], in 1892.

== Correspondence ==

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File:Letter-SACD-Bram-Stocker-melodrama.jpg|[[Letter to Bram Stoker about a melodrama|Letter]] from [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] to Bram Stoker (undated)

File:Letter-sacd-1897-08-20-bram-stoker.jpg|[[Letter to Bram Stoker (20 august 1897)|Letter]] from [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] to Bram Stoker (20 august 1897)

File:letter-acd-1898-06-20-bram-stoker.jpg|[[Letter to Bram Stoker (20 june 1898)|Letter]] from [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] to Bram Stoker (20 june 1898)
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File:postcard-acd-1910-03-17-bram-stoker-verso.jpg|[[Postcard to Bram Stoker (17 march 1910)|Postcard]] from [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] to Bram Stoker (17 march 1910)
File:postcard-acd-1910-03-17-bram-stoker-recto.jpg|[[Postcard to Bram Stoker (17 march 1910)|Postcard]] from [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] to Bram Stoker (17 march 1910)
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* [http://www.bramstoker.org/ See also Bram Stoker website]
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TCDE-Team at 19:42, 15 November 2017