Van Helsing is called to London.Everybody appreciates a good villain. Professor Abraham Van Helsing - A medical doctor from Amsterdam who was the tutor of Dr.Dracula can control creatures like wolves, manipulate the weather and transform himself into night-animals. He begins the novel as an older, moustached man who grows gradgually younger as he feeds on feminine blood. Dracula - An ancient vampire and Transylvanian nobleman who travels to London to spread his terror.Main article: List of chapters in Dracula Characters Furious, Dracula takes the mirror and drops it from the window breaking it on the pavement. When Harker turns, Dracula sees the crucifix and is driven back. From shock, Harker cuts his neck and Dracula reacts strangely to the blood. One evening, when Harker shaves he is startled by Dracula, whose likeness is not reflected in the mirror. In the following days, Harker begins to feel uneasy. Harker notices his host has hair growing on his palms and sharp protruding canine-teeth.ĭracula and Harker spend long nights talking only for the count to vanish at dawn. Dracula does not dine and the next few days is nowhere to be seen during the day. At Castle Dracula, Jonathan is greeted by Dracula, a pale old man with a grey moustache, a high-bridged nose with fibrant red lips and dressed all in black greets him politely. When they are surrounded by wolves the coachman sends them away by a simple gesture. The coachman is strong and seems peculiar. That night, the count's carriage awaits him at the Borgo Pass. He is given a crucifix by a local woman, and from politeness Harker accepts though he does not believe the superstition. Locals seem to be frightened of the castle and tell him that " the dead travel fast". He receives a letter from the count in the train on the border from Moldovia to Bukovina. Peter Hawkins to assist with the paperwork attached to the purchase - a mysterious foreign noble by the name of Dracula who lives in a castle near the Borgo-Pass and has bought the property known as Carfax in London's Purfleet suburb. He goes there on account of his superior Mr. The English solicitor Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania in Hungary. The novel and its characters have entered the public domain. The novel is arranged in epistolary format, being told through diaries, letters and telegrams, among other formats as well. The novel has been adapted many times through the years, from plays and films to comic books and video games.ĭracula has become the most famous horror character in history. They must protect Harker's fiancée Mina from Dracula's influence, while mental patient Renfield, seems to have a connection with him. Abraham Van Helsing seek to destroy Dracula who has travelled to London, to end his reign of terror forever. Miss Murray does not face these situations alone however, a small group of trusted and beloved friends lead by Dr. Mina, now uncertain of her fiancé's whereabouts and concerned with his welfare, must also cope with the slow, painful and misunderstood decline in her closest friends health. Worse yet, Harker discovers that his tormentor isn't quite the man he seems to be, but is a vampire: a dark creature of great evil who must feed upon the blood of the living.īack in England, at the costal town of Whitby (the town in which Dracula first set foot on English soil), miss Lucy Westenra, dearest friend to Jonathan Harker's fiancée Mina Murray, falls deathly ill, exhibiting signs of severe anemia and dementia. After weeks of enduring this peculiar behaviour and witnessing first-hand many impossible and baffling phenomena, Harker comes to realise he is not a welcomed guest in Dracula's home but His prisoner. Each time this happened though, just before the dawn, the Dracula would halt everything and excuse himself, to attend to other business, leaving Harker alone in the empty castle, sometimes for days. Harker and Dracula would spend entire nights engaged in discussion or engrossed in English literature and periodicals or the maps of it's great cities. Dracula, who wishes to purchase property in England insists that Harker remains with him in Transylvania for a short periode of time, as to educate Dracula in the ways of English society. The novel begins with the English solicitor Jonathan Harker travelling the picturesque south eastern European countryside at the behest of his employer to meet with a client, Dracula, who resides in an old, weathered and ruined castle, tucked deep in the Carpathian Mountains, on the border of Transylvania, Bukovina and Moldavia. It is written in epistolary format, told through diary entries. It is one of the most famous novels of modern times, mostly due to the amount of movie adaptations it has inspired. Dracula is a Victorian gothic novel by Irish author Bram Stoker first published on May 26, 1897.
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