Dracula - Important Characters in Bram Stoker's Novel

Stoker, Bram. Dracula . Westminster: Constable, 1897. First American edition NY: Doubleday & McClure, 1899. Hardcover.

Stoker's Dracula have come up to personify what most readers conceive of what a "real" lamia must be like: an undead animal who dwells on human blood, prefers to do his units of ammunition at night, have superhuman strength, projects no contemplation in a mirror, detests garlic, fearfulnesses traverses and holy water, and can change into a bat, a wolf, or mist at will. Even though these traits are familiar and infinite movies have got been made about Count Dracula, Stoker's powerfully written novel still rouses fear in even the most jaded heart. Through the journals, diaries, and letters of those besieged by this wicked count, the horror constructs as Dracula's program to travel his fastness from Transylvania to Victorian England and make a new "unlife" for himself, looks unstoppable. For anyone not familiar with the narrative a little verbal description of the assorted supporters can be helpful. These fictional characters often demo up in other lamia narratives individually or as an ensemble. Count Dracula -- a centuries old lamia of huge immorality who have lived his many old age in the Carpathian mounts of Transylvania causing eternal heartache and panic to nearby residents. He bes after to go forth his hereditary fatherland and caput for England's shores.

Jonathan Harker -- a immature canvasser who goes to Transylvania at the behest of the Count in order to assist him set up for the move to England. Jonathan soon recognizes he is not only in the presence of a awful evil, but worse, is a captive in at hand hazard for his life and soul.

Lucy Westenra -- a lively, pretty immature adult female with three fine-looking suitors. She is also Dracula's first English victim.

Lucy's Suitor's:
Arthur Holmwood -- inheritor of Godhead Godalming and the victor in the competition to win Lucy's hand. Quincey P. Morris -- an American from Texas. John Seward -- a physician in complaint of a nearby madman asylum. When Lucy goes "ill" and makes not react to treatment, Toilet directs for his former wise man Dr. Avant Garde Helsing in hopes that a remedy can be establish for her.

Mina Harker (nee Murray) --- bride-to-be (and later married woman of Jonathan) who is also a stopping point friend of Lucy's. After Lucy's death, Myna goes the adjacent physical object of Dracula's attention. He desires her for his bride. But the strategy is interrupted by Dr. Abraham Avant Garde Helsing. Unfortunately Myna have been forced to imbibe some of Dracula's blood and now have a psychical nexus to him. This link, however, will be used to track him when he flees.

Dr. Abraham Avant Garde Helsing -- Sent for from Dutch Capital by Toilet Seward, Avant Garde Helsing goes leery of what lies behind Lucy's illness. Still he is not able to salvage her. It is Avant Garde Helsing who then converts the other work force - Harker ( who have escaped from Dracula's castle) and Lucy's suers - that a lamia is at work and must be hunted down and destroyed.

Renfield -- a patient in Dr. Seward's asylum. Renfield patterns his ain trade name of entomology. After quietly studying flies and spiders he then return to eat them. He eventually goes the human retainer of Dracula.

Following is a little listing of modern twenty-four hours novels using fictional characters from Stoker's Genus Genus Genus Genus Genus Genus Dracula as protagonists.

Anno Dracula by Kim Newman.

Blood to Blood: The Dracula Narrative Continues by Elaine Bergstrom

Bloodline by Kate Cary.

The Bloody Red Baron by Kim Newman

The Book of Renfield : A Gospels of Dracula by Tim Lucas

The Diaries of the Family Dracul by Jeanne Kalogridis - a series of three novels which should be read in order.

Covenant With the Vampire

Children of the Vampire

Lord of the Vampires

The Dracula Tape by Fred Saberhagen. This novel is followed by respective others that are based on the intimacy of Genus Genus Genus Dracula (in this series he's a good guy) to Myna Harker and her descendants.

The Historian by Elizabeth Ii Kostova

Judgement of Tears: Anno Dracula 1959 by Kim Newman

Mina by Elaine Bergstrom.

Renfield Slave of Dracula by Barbara Hambly