Dracula : "I bid you welcome . . . "

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"There are mysteries which men can only guess at."
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Sometime in the late nineteenth century, Jonathan Harker, a young English lawyer, is traveling to the Castle Dracula, in Transylvania, in order to finalize a transfer of real estate in England to Count Dracula. Harker becomes extremely nervous when all of the local peasants react in fear after they hear of his destination; nevertheless,The mysterious coach driver continues on to the castle, arriving in pitch darkness, to the accompaniment of howling wolves...

"He was very pale, and his eyes seemed bulging out as, half in terror and half in amazement, he gazed at a tall, thin man, with a beaky nose and black moustache and pointed beard..."

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Character List
  • Count Dracula-A centuries-old vampire and Transylvanian nobleman
  • Van Helsing -  A Dutch professor,
  • Jonathan Harker -  A solicitor, or lawyer, whose firm sends him to Transylvania conclude a real estate transaction with Dracula
  • Mina Murray -  Jonathan Harker’s fiancée.
  • Lucy Westenra -  Mina’s best friend and first to fall under Dracula’s spell
  • John Seward -  A talented young doctor, formerly Van Helsing’s pupil.
  • Arthur Holmwood -  Lucy’s fiancé
  • Quincey Morris -  A plainspoken American from Texas, and another of Lucy’s suitors.
  • Renfield  - A patient at Seward’s mental asylum.
  • Mrs. Westenra -  Lucy’s mother.

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