Dracula
(Bram Stoker)

Dracula

The Count that invited Harker to his castle. His plan is to move to London. What Harker (and the others) learn later is that Dracula is also a vampire. Because of that, he has a vast array of powers, including the ability to morph into different animals, control animals (like wolves), control the weather, and turn into mist. He’s also super strong. He drinks blood, which gives him youth and strength. He also seems to have a telepathic connection with his victims. Unlike modern vampires, Dracula has no problem going into the daylight. He just isn’t very powerful during the day. He also needs to sleep during the day, and he can only sleep on dirt from his home in Transylvania. His weaknesses: various Christian symbols like the cross, holy water, and communion wafers, as well as garlic flowers.

Jonathan Harker

Jonathan is sent to Transylvania to meet Count Dracula in order to finalize some business transactions. The Count obligated him to stay an extra month to help him practice his English. The extended stay almost kills Harker. When Dracula leaves the castle, Harker must leave to escape the three vampire women that live there, too. He is later found with a high fever. Mina meets him in a mission hospital, where they marry. Later, Harker inherits the firm he works for, making him very wealthy. He helps kill Dracula in the end.

Mina Murray (then Harker)

Mina spend a lot of time worried in this book. First, she is worried about Lucy’s sleepwalking. Then she is worried about Jonathan, who stays way too long in Transylvania. Finally, she learns he’s in a hospital there. She rushes out to take care of him and marry him. When they return, they get very buy with running Harker’s new business, so busy that she doesn’t know about Lucy’s death until after the fact. Later, Mina contacts and compares notes with Van Helsing, giving the humans the advantage to kill Dracula. She also helps a lot when she is made a victim by the Count. Because of their connection, they use hypnotism on Mina to know where Dracula is.

Lucy Westurna

Lucy starts the novel having to choose between three young suitors: Arthur, Jack, and Quincey. She ends up choosing Arhtur, although she never gets to marry any of them. She starts sleepwalking when Mina is visiting her. Later, she is attacked by Dracula, who slowly turns her to a vampire. She dies and they have a funeral for her. Later, she comes back as a vampire, sucking the blood of small children at night. The men find her during the day in her tomb and kill her.

Arthur Holmwood

Arthur is but one of the three men that love Lucy. They are engaged, but they never marry. Arthur is very wealthy, and he gains the title of Lord when his father dies.

Dr Jack Seward

Seward also loves Lucy. He calls Van Helsing when he can’t understand what is happening to Lucy. He also has a patient named Renfield, someone who seems to worship Dracula. His asylum is next door to the estate that Dracula buys through Harker’s firm.

Dr Abraham Van Helsing

Van Helsing is a mysterious man and was once Seward’s teacher. He’s called in to look as Lucy’s case because he’s an expert in mysterious diseases. He knows that a vampire is responsible, although he doesn’t reveal what he know until Lucy is dead. He knows a lot about vampire, including how they can’t get near garlic flowers or crosses. He also knows the best way to kill an un-dead is by staking them through the heart and cutting off their head.

Quincey Morris

Quincey is a Texan that is in love with Lucy. He helps with Lucy while she is alive and he also helps track down and kill Dracula. When the group fights the gypsies to get to Dracula’s box, Quincey is mortally wounded. He lives long enough to see the Count die and Mina return to normal. When Harker and Mina have a child, they name him after Quincey.

Renfield

Renfield is a patient in Seward’s asylum. He likes to capture and eat living creatures and he seems to worship Dracula. He escapes more than once from his cell and he attack others by biting them.

Dracula’s Brides

These three ladies live in Castle Dracula. They were supposed to kill Harker (before he escaped). Van Helsing enters the castle by day and kills them while they sleep, though.