Dracula
Count Dracula
The vampire nobleman
An ancient Transylvanian nobleman with a courteous manner and a deadly hunger, who sets his sights on England and everyone Jonathan Harker loves.
Count Dracula lives alone in a crumbling castle in the Carpathian Mountains, where he receives guests with old-fashioned politeness and never eats a bite in front of them. He is tall, pale and commanding, with sharp features, red eyes and long clawed fingers. Wolves fall silent when he raises his hand, and he calls them the children of the night.
Dracula's courtesy is a kind of mask. He wants to leave his mountains for London, to walk among its crowds, and he needs an English lawyer to arrange the purchase of Carfax Abbey. He casts no reflection, rests in boxes of Transylvanian earth, and grows younger as he feeds. Those who meet him find him charming, right up to the moment they learn what he is.
“Welcome to my house! Enter freely and go safely, and leave something of the happiness you bring!”
In the story
Contains spoilers.
Dracula keeps Jonathan Harker prisoner in his castle, then sails for England aboard the Demeter. He preys first on Lucy Westenra in Whitby and London, and later on Mina Murray, whom he forces to drink from his own chest. Van Helsing and his friends track down and sanctify his earth boxes until he has only one left.
He flees by sea toward home, and the hunters race him across Europe. At the castle gates, at sunset, Jonathan's kukri knife cuts his throat and Quincey Morris's bowie knife pierces his heart. Dracula crumbles into dust, and the curse on Mina lifts.
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