The Original Vampire

Dracula by Bram Stoker
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This is a classic this one, a mark of truly great fiction. In reality it is a fictional account of a leader long after he has been dead. I have read this story numerous times and each time I. Learn about some other detail that previous I had known hither of. The story is written from many point of view. Journal entries and letters describing what is going on make up the mainstay of the story.

Starting off , Jonathan Harker , a solicitor is off to Transylvania where in he is to sell the property of Carfax in England to the count. Upon arriving at the Castle Dracula he soon realizes that things just are not right. The count has strange habit, hides appearance changes very often and then there are those three strange ladies. Jonathan has no clue as to what is going on. He makes good on his plans to escape but it will take him weeks to finally end up in Budapest ,Hungary.

Meanwhile in England strange things are beginning to happen. A strange ship docks in England. No ones is piloting the boat and none of the crew have been left alive. A strange dog bounds off the ship. No one finds the dog but other strange things begin to happen. A wolf escapes from his cage and Mina’s friend Lucy begins to act strangely . Weird puncture mark form on her neck, she sleep walks at night and within a short time she becomes a vampire. She was engaged to Arthur Holmwood , the guy who runs the hospital. At this hospital is a very strange and deranged man named Renfield. Mr. Renfield has a fascination with collecting animals like spiders, birds and flies. He calls Dracula his lord and master.

As Lucy get more and more ill, Dr. Seward summons an old mentor named Abraham Von Helsing. He know about this stuff. When Lucy is fully turned to a vampire it is Van Helsing that knows how to kill her and stop her from drinking the blood of small children . But Dracula soon pursues Mina Murray who during the course of the story gets married to her fiancée Jonathan Harker. SHe is about to be turned into a vampire so the teams goal is to kill Dracula. They destroy his boxes of Earth and pursue him all the way Transylvania.

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