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==Death== [[File:Golders Green crematorium (pictures) 002.jpg|thumb|Shared urn which contains Stoker's and his son's ashes in [[Golders Green Crematorium]]]] After suffering a number of strokes, Stoker died at No. 26 [[St George's Square]], London on 20 April 1912.<ref name="mc">{{Cite web |url=http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/stoker/bio.html |title=Bram Stoker |date=30 April 2008 |publisher=Victorian Web |access-date=12 December 2008}}</ref> Some biographers attribute the cause of death to overwork,<ref name="The Discussion">{{Cite book |title=The Discussion |publisher=Oberon Books (for The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art) |year=2004 |isbn=978-1-84002-431-9 |edition=3rd |location=Grade Eight β Bram Stoker |page=97}}</ref> others to [[tertiary syphilis]].<ref name="Gibson">{{Cite book |title=The Capital Companion |last=Gibson |first=Peter |publisher=Webb & Bower |year=1985 |isbn=978-0-86350-042-8 |pages=365β366}}</ref> His [[death certificate]] listed the cause of death as "[[Locomotor ataxia]] 6 months", presumed to be a reference to syphilis.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IIAsN6I0xUQC&q=Bram+Stoker%5D%5D's+%5B%5Bdeath+certificate+syphilis&pg=PA415|title=Bram Stoker's Dracula: Sucking Through the Century, 1897β1997|first=Carol Margaret|last=Davison|date=1 November 1997|publisher=Dundurn|via=Google Books|isbn=9781554881055}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://blog.oup.com/2012/04/bram-stoker-death-centenary-dracula/|title=100 years ago today: the death of Bram Stoker|date=20 April 2012|website=OUPblog}}</ref> He was cremated, and his ashes are contained in a display urn at [[Golders Green Crematorium]] in north London. The ashes of Irving Noel Stoker, the author's son, were added to his father's urn following his death in 1961. The original plan had been to keep his parents' ashes together, but after Florence Stoker's death, her ashes were scattered at the Gardens of Rest.
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