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Dracula is a 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker.An epistolary novel, the narrative is related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles.It has no single protagonist and opens with solicitor Jonathan Harker taking a business trip to stay at the castle of a Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula.
Count Dracula (/ ˈ d r æ k j ʊ l ə,-j ə-/) is the title character of Bram Stoker's 1897 gothic horror novel Dracula.He is considered the prototypical and archetypal vampire in subsequent works of fiction.
Jonathan Harker is a fictional character and one of the main protagonists of Bram Stoker's 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula.An English solicitor, his journey to Transylvania and encounter with the vampire Count Dracula and his Brides at Castle Dracula constitutes the dramatic opening scenes in the novel and most of the film adaptations.
Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories is a collection of short stories by Bram Stoker, first published in 1914, two years after Stoker's death, at the behest of his widow Florence Balcombe. [2] The same collection has been issued under short titles including simply Dracula's Guest. Meanwhile, collections published under longer titles contain ...
"Dracula's Guest" is a short story by Bram Stoker, first published in the short story collection Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories (1914). It is believed to have been intended as the first chapter for Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula, but was deleted prior to publication as the original publishers felt it was superfluous to the story.
Aside from Dracula, Quincey is the only major character not to keep some form of journal. Quincey is one of the few characters in Dracula to have prior knowledge of blood drinkers. In chapter 12, he mentions that he was forced to shoot his horse while in the Pampas after vampire bats drank it dry during the night. Quincey plays an important ...
R. M. Renfield is a fictional character who appears in Bram Stoker's 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula. [2] He is Count Dracula's deranged, fanatically devoted servant and familiar, helping him in his plan to turn Mina Harker into a vampire in return for a continuous supply of insects to consume and the promise of immortality.
Castle Dracula (also known as Dracula’s castle) is the fictitious Transylvanian residence of Count Dracula, the vampire antagonist in Bram Stoker's 1897 horror novel Dracula. It is the setting of the first few and final scenes of the novel.