Dracula
Bram Stoker175descriptions found in the text — easy to miss while reading
Count Dracula
Main
Synthesis
A tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, clad in black from head to foot. Very marked physiognomy: strong aquiline face with high bridge of thin nose and peculiarly arched nostrils; lofty domed forehead; hair growing scantily round the temples but profusely elsewhere; massive eyebrows, almost meeting over the nose, with bushy hair that seems to curl in its own profusion; mouth fixed and rather cruel-looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth protruding over the lips, whose remarkable ruddiness shows astonishing vitality; ears pale and at the tops extremely pointed; chin broad and strong; cheeks firm though thin; general effect of extraordinary pallor. Hands rather coarse, broad, with squat fingers; hairs in the centre of the palm; nails long and fine, cut to a sharp point. Breath rank. Eyes very bright, seeming red in lamplight. Later, after feeding, the white hair and moustache change to dark iron-grey; cheeks become fuller; white skin seems ruby-red underneath; mouth redder with gouts of fresh blood; deep burning eyes set amongst swollen flesh; lids and pouches underneath bloated. Can appear as a tall, thin man with a beaky nose, black moustache, pointed beard, hard cold look, red eyes, white kid gloves, and a mouth full of white sharp teeth. Also appears as a tall, thin man, all in black, with waxen face, high aquiline nose, parted red lips with sharp white teeth, red eyes, and a red scar on the forehead.
❝ Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere. ❞
❝ His face was a strong—a very strong—aquiline, with high bridge of the thin nose and peculiarly arched nostrils; with lofty domed forehead, and hair growing scantily round the temples but profusely elsewhere. ❞
❝ His eyebrows were very massive, almost meeting over the nose, and with bushy hair that seemed to curl in its own profusion. ❞
❝ The mouth, so far as I could see it under the heavy moustache, was fixed and rather cruel-looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth; these protruded over the lips, whose remarkable ruddiness showed astonishing vitality in a man of his years. ❞
❝ For the rest, his ears were pale, and at the tops extremely pointed; the chin was broad and strong, and the cheeks firm though thin. The general effect was one of extraordinary pallor. ❞
❝ Hitherto I had noticed the backs of his hands as they lay on his knees in the firelight, and they had seemed rather white and fine; but seeing them now close to me, I could not but notice that they were rather coarse—broad, with squat fingers. Strange to say, there were hairs in the centre of the palm. The nails were long and fine, and cut to a sharp point. ❞
❝ It may have been that his breath was rank, but a horrible feeling of nausea came over me, which, do what I would, I could not conceal. ❞
❝ I could only see the gleam of a pair of very bright eyes, which seemed red in the lamplight, as he turned to us. ❞
❝ There lay the Count, but looking as if his youth had been half renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron-grey; the cheeks were fuller, and the white skin seemed ruby-red underneath; the mouth was redder than ever, for on the lips were gouts of fresh blood, which trickled from the corners of the mouth and ran over the chin and neck. Even the deep, burning eyes seemed set amongst swollen flesh, for the lids and pouches underneath were bloated. ❞
❝ He was a tall, thin man, with a beaky nose and black moustache and pointed beard, who was also observing the pretty girl. His face was not a good face; it was hard, and cruel, and sensual, and his big white teeth, that looked all the whiter because his lips were so red, were pointed like an animal’s. ❞
❝ He had a 'ard, cold look and red eyes. ❞
❝ He 'ad white kid gloves on 'is 'ands. ❞
❝ He smiled a kind of insolent smile, with a mouth full of white, sharp teeth. ❞
❝ beside the bed, as if he had stepped out of the mist—or rather as if the mist had turned into his figure, for it had entirely disappeared—stood a tall, thin man, all in black. I knew him at once from the description of the others. The waxen face; the high aquiline nose, on which the light fell in a thin white line; the parted red lips, with the sharp white teeth showing between; and the red eyes that I had seemed to see in the sunset on the windows of St. Mary’s Church at Whitby. I knew, too, the red scar on his forehead where Jonathan had struck him. ❞
❝ His eyes flamed red with devilish passion; the great nostrils of the white aquiline nose opened wide and quivered at the edge; and the white sharp teeth, behind the full lips of the blood-dripping mouth, champed together like those of a wild beast. ❞
❝ He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew too well. ❞
❝ before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight. ❞
Jonathan Harker
Age portraits
After the shock
After Mina's violation
Main
Synthesis
A young man, full of energy and talent, of a very faithful disposition. He is discreet and silent. After his ordeal, he becomes thin and pale and weak-looking; all resolution gone from his eyes; he is only a wreck of himself. Later, he recovers and is described as having a strong, youthful face, full of energy, with dark brown hair. After Mina's violation, he becomes a drawn, haggard old man with white hair, hollow burning eyes, and grief-written lines on his face.
❝ He is a young man, full of energy and talent in his own way, and of a very faithful disposition. He is discreet and silent. ❞
❝ I found my dear one, oh, so thin and pale and weak-looking. All the resolution has gone out of his dear eyes, and that quiet dignity which I told you was in his face has vanished. He is only a wreck of himself. ❞
❝ Last night he was a frank, happy-looking man, with strong, youthful face, full of energy, and with dark brown hair. To-day he is a drawn, haggard old man, whose white hair matches well with the hollow burning eyes and grief-written lines of his face. ❞
❝ His face was set, and high duty seemed to shine through it. ❞
❝ He is uncommonly clever, if one can judge from his face, and full of energy. ❞
❝ He is true grit, and he improves under strain that would kill a weaker nature. ❞
Mina Harker (née Murray)
Main
Synthesis
A sweet-faced, dainty-looking girl. She has a beautiful colour, and is described as looking sweeter and lovelier than ever. After the vampire attack, she becomes ghastly white, with a red scar on her forehead where the Sacred Wafer burned her. She later becomes pale and thin, with lips drawn away showing her teeth somewhat prominently. At the end, the scar vanishes and her forehead is stainless.
❝ a sweet-faced, dainty-looking girl stepped up to me ❞
❝ Lucy met me at the station, looking sweeter and lovelier than ever ❞
❝ She looked sweetly pretty, but very sad, and her eyes were flushed with crying. ❞
❝ She was very, very pale—almost ghastly, and so thin that her lips were drawn away, showing her teeth in somewhat of prominence. ❞
❝ as he had placed the Wafer on Mina's forehead, it had seared it—had burned into the flesh as though it had been a piece of white-hot metal. ❞
❝ the red scar on her forehead ❞
❝ the snow is not more stainless than her forehead! The curse has passed away! ❞
❝ She is one of God's women, fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth. ❞
Lucy Westenra
Secondary
Synthesis
A beautiful girl with a lovely rose-pink complexion, sweet and sensitive. She has golden hair, and is described as looking sweeter and lovelier than ever. After her death, she becomes more radiantly beautiful, with red lips and a delicate bloom on her cheeks. As a vampire, her sweetness turns to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and purity to voluptuous wantonness; her eyes become unclean and full of hell-fire; her lips are crimson with fresh blood; her teeth appear longer and sharper.
❝ Lucy was looking sweetly pretty in her white lawn frock; she has got a beautiful colour since she has been here. ❞
❝ she is a trifle stouter, and her cheeks are a lovely rose-pink. She has lost that anæmic look which she had. ❞
❝ There, in the coffin lay no longer the foul Thing that we had so dreaded and grown to hate... but Lucy as we had seen her in her life, with her face of unequalled sweetness and purity. ❞
❝ She was, if possible, more radiantly beautiful than ever; and I could not believe that she was dead. The lips were red, nay redder than before; and on the cheeks was a delicate bloom. ❞
❝ The sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness. ❞
❝ Lucy's eyes in form and colour; but Lucy's eyes unclean and full of hell-fire, instead of the pure, gentle orbs we knew. ❞
❝ we could see that the lips were crimson with fresh blood, and that the stream had trickled over her chin and stained the purity of her lawn death-robe. ❞
❝ the pointed teeth, the bloodstained, voluptuous mouth—which it made one shudder to see—the whole carnal and unspiritual appearance, seeming like a devilish mockery of Lucy's sweet purity. ❞
❝ She seemed like a nightmare of Lucy as she lay there; the pointed teeth, the bloodstained, voluptuous mouth—which it made one shudder to see—the whole carnal and unspiritual appearance, seeming like a devilish mockery of Lucy's sweet purity. ❞
❝ the fair girl shook her head coquettishly... the fair, as fair as can be, with great wavy masses of golden hair and eyes like pale sapphires. ❞
Dr. John Seward
Secondary
Synthesis
A man with a strong jaw and a good forehead. He is described as having a curious habit of looking one straight in the face, as if trying to read one’s thoughts. He is calm and resolute.
❝ Dr. John Seward, the lunatic-asylum man, with the strong jaw and the good forehead. ❞
❝ He seems absolutely imperturbable. I can fancy what a wonderful power he must have over his patients. He has a curious habit of looking one straight in the face, as if trying to read one’s thoughts. ❞
❝ He is a doctor and really clever. Just fancy! He is only nine-and-twenty, and he has an immense lunatic asylum all under his own care. ❞
Arthur Holmwood (later Lord Godalming)
Secondary
Synthesis
A tall, handsome, curly-haired man. He is stalwart and manly, with a strong young manhood. He is described as having a noble nature.
❝ a tall, handsome, curly-haired man??? ❞
❝ he took in his stalwart proportions and recognised the strong young manhood which seemed to emanate from him ❞
❝ He is so young and strong and of blood so pure that we need not defibrinate it. ❞
❝ He looked like a figure of Thor as his untrembling arm rose and fell, driving deeper and deeper the mercy-bearing stake ❞
QP
Quincey P. Morris
Secondary
Synthesis
A nice fellow, an American from Texas, who looks so young and so fresh. He is well educated and has exquisite manners. He is brave and unselfish, a moral Viking.
❝ He is such a nice fellow, an American from Texas, and he looks so young and so fresh that it seems almost impossible that he has been to so many places and has had such adventures. ❞
❝ he is really well educated and has exquisite manners ❞
❝ If America can go on breeding men like that, she will be a power in the world indeed. ❞
❝ He bore his own trouble so bravely that my heart bled for him. ❞
PA
Professor Abraham Van Helsing
Secondary
Synthesis
A man of medium weight, strongly built, with shoulders set back over a broad, deep chest and a neck well balanced on the trunk. The poise of the head is indicative of thought and power; the head is noble, well-sized, broad, and large behind the ears. The face, clean-shaven, shows a hard, square chin, a large, resolute, mobile mouth, a good-sized nose, rather straight, but with quick, sensitive nostrils that seem to broaden as the big, bushy brows come down and the mouth tightens. The forehead is broad and fine, rising at first almost straight and then sloping back above two bumps or ridges wide apart; reddish hair falls naturally back and to the sides. Big, dark blue eyes are set widely apart, and are quick and tender or stern with the man’s moods. He has bushy eyebrows and an iron jaw.
❝ a man of medium weight, strongly built, with his shoulders set back over a broad, deep chest and a neck well balanced on the trunk as the head is on the neck. ❞
❝ The poise of the head strikes one at once as indicative of thought and power; the head is noble, well-sized, broad, and large behind the ears. ❞
❝ The face, clean-shaven, shows a hard, square chin, a large, resolute, mobile mouth, a good-sized nose, rather straight, but with quick, sensitive nostrils, that seem to broaden as the big, bushy brows come down and the mouth tightens. ❞
❝ The forehead is broad and fine, rising at first almost straight and then sloping back above two bumps or ridges wide apart; such a forehead that the reddish hair cannot possibly tumble over it, but falls naturally back and to the sides. ❞
❝ Big, dark blue eyes are set widely apart, and are quick and tender or stern with the man’s moods. ❞
R
Renfield
Secondary
Synthesis
A man of sanguine temperament, great physical strength, morbidly excitable. He is described as having a face that is sometimes sullen, sometimes cringing. He has white stubble on his jaws. He is a bulky man.
❝ R. M. Renfield, ætat 59.—Sanguine temperament; great physical strength; morbidly excitable; periods of gloom, ending in some fixed idea which I cannot make out. ❞
❝ He is a bulky man, and couldn’t get through the window. ❞
❝ the stubble on the jaws was white ❞
❝ He looked at me with a sort of pleading—I might almost say, 'cringing'—softness. ❞
MW
Mrs. Westenra
Episodic
Synthesis
An elderly lady, described as poor dear, sweet lady. She is ill with a heart condition.
❝ Poor dear, sweet lady! She confided to me that she has got her death-warrant. ❞
MP
Mr. Peter Hawkins
Episodic
Synthesis
An elderly gentleman, a solicitor from Exeter. He suffers from gout.
❝ I must regret that an attack of gout, from which malady I am a constant sufferer, forbids absolutely any travelling on my part for some time to come ❞
SA
Sister Agatha
Episodic
Synthesis
A good creature and a born nurse, a sweet, good soul.
❝ Sister Agatha, who is a good creature and a born nurse ❞
MS
Mr. Swales
Episodic
Synthesis
A funny old man, awfully old, with a face all gnarled and twisted like the bark of a tree. He is nearly a hundred, and was a sailor in the Greenland fishing fleet when Waterloo was fought.
❝ He is a funny old man. He must be awfully old, for his face is all gnarled and twisted like the bark of a tree. ❞
❝ He tells me that he is nearly a hundred, and that he was a sailor in the Greenland fishing fleet when Waterloo was fought. ❞
TT
The three vampire women (the sisters)
Episodic
Synthesis
Three young women, ladies by their dress and manner. Two are dark, with high aquiline noses like the Count, and great dark, piercing eyes that seem almost red when contrasted with the pale yellow moon. The other is fair, as fair as can be, with great wavy masses of golden hair and eyes like pale sapphires. All three have brilliant white teeth that shine like pearls against the ruby of their voluptuous lips. They have a silvery, musical laugh, but as hard as though the sound never could have come through the softness of human lips.
❝ Two were dark, and had high aquiline noses, like the Count, and great dark, piercing eyes that seemed to be almost red when contrasted with the pale yellow moon. The other was fair, as fair as can be, with great wavy masses of golden hair and eyes like pale sapphires. ❞
❝ All three had brilliant white teeth that shone like pearls against the ruby of their voluptuous lips. ❞
❝ They whispered together, and then they all three laughed—such a silvery, musical laugh, but as hard as though the sound never could have come through the softness of human lips. ❞
TC
The captain of the Demeter
Episodic
Synthesis
A sailor, described as a hero. He is found dead, lashed to the wheel, with his hands tied and a crucifix between them.
❝ lashed to the helm was a corpse, with drooping head, which swung horribly to and fro at each motion of the ship. ❞
TB
Thomas Bilder
Episodic
Synthesis
The keeper of the wolf section at the Zoölogical Gardens. He is elderly, and lives with his wife in a cottage behind the elephant-house.
❝ Thomas Bilder lives in one of the cottages in the enclosure behind the elephant-house, and was just sitting down to his tea when I found him. Thomas and his wife are hospitable folk, elderly, and without children ❞
BW
Bersicker (the wolf)
Episodic
Synthesis
A grey wolf from Norway. He is described as a nice well-behaved wolf. After his escape, he is found with his head cut and full of broken glass.
❝ That 'ere wolf what we called Bersicker was one of three grey ones that came from Norway to Jamrach’s, which we bought off him four years ago. He was a nice well-behaved wolf, that never gave no trouble to talk of. ❞
❝ Here's his head all cut and full of broken glass. ❞
SF
Samuel F. Billington
Episodic
Synthesis
A Whitby solicitor.
PS
Petrof Skinsky
Episodic
Synthesis
A Slovak who deals with the Slovaks who trade down the river to the port. He is found dead with his throat torn open.
❝ the body of Skinsky had been found inside the wall of the churchyard of St. Peter, and that the throat had been torn open as if by some wild animal. ❞
IH
Immanuel Hildesheim
Episodic
Synthesis
A Hebrew of rather the Adelphi Theatre type, with a nose like a sheep, and a fez.
❝ a Hebrew of rather the Adelphi Theatre type, with a nose like a sheep, and a fez. ❞
CD
Captain Donelson
Episodic
Synthesis
The captain of the Czarina Catherine. He speaks with a Scottish accent.
❝ We saw the Captain, Donelson by name, who told us of his voyage. ❞
TO
The old lady (landlady at Golden Krone Hotel)
Episodic
Synthesis
A cheery-looking elderly woman in the usual peasant dress—white undergarment with long double apron, front, and back, of coloured stuff fitting almost too tight for modesty.
❝ a cheery-looking elderly woman in the usual peasant dress—white undergarment with long double apron, front, and back, of coloured stuff fitting almost too tight for modesty. ❞
TC
The coach driver (the Count in disguise)
Episodic
Synthesis
A tall man, with a long brown beard and a great black hat, which seemed to hide his face. Only the gleam of a pair of very bright eyes, which seemed red in the lamplight, could be seen. He has a hard-looking mouth, with very red lips and sharp-looking teeth, as white as ivory. His hand catches in a grip of steel; his strength is prodigious.
❝ They were driven by a tall man, with a long brown beard and a great black hat, which seemed to hide his face from us. I could only see the gleam of a pair of very bright eyes, which seemed red in the lamplight, as he turned to us. ❞
❝ the lamplight fell on a hard-looking mouth, with very red lips and sharp-looking teeth, as white as ivory. ❞
❝ the driver helping me with a hand which caught my arm in a grip of steel; his strength must have been prodigious. ❞
TT
The three old men (cronies of Mr. Swales)
Episodic
Synthesis
Old men who sit on the churchyard cliff and talk. They are described as cronies of Mr. Swales.
TC
The coastguard
Episodic
Synthesis
A coastguard on duty at Whitby, with a spy-glass under his arm.
❝ I was glad when the coastguard came along, with his spy-glass under his arm. ❞
DV
Dr. Vincent
Episodic
Synthesis
A doctor at the North Hospital, friend of Van Helsing and Seward.
PH
Patrick Hennessey
Episodic
Synthesis
A doctor who reports to Seward about Renfield.
MM
Mr. Marquand
Episodic
Synthesis
The solicitor of Mrs. Westenra, of the firm Wholeman, Sons, Marquand & Lidderdale. He is genial and appreciative.
❝ He was very genial and very appreciative of what we had done ❞
TS
Thomas Snelling
Episodic
Synthesis
A carrier, assistant to Smollet. He is a decent, poor soul according to his wife.
JS
Joseph Smollet
Episodic
Synthesis
A decent, intelligent fellow, a good, reliable type of workman, with a headpiece of his own. He has a wonderful dog's-eared notebook.
❝ He is a decent, intelligent fellow, distinctly a good, reliable type of workman, and with a headpiece of his own. ❞
SB
Sam Bloxam
Episodic
Synthesis
A smart enough fellow, though rough of speech and bearing.
❝ He was a smart enough fellow, though rough of speech and bearing. ❞
TS
The Szgany (gypsies)
Episodic
Synthesis
Gypsies peculiar to this part of the world, allied to ordinary gypsies. They are fearless and without religion, save superstition, and talk only their own varieties of the Romany tongue. They are described as having a splendid-looking leader who sits his horse like a centaur.
❝ These Szgany are gipsies; I have notes of them in my book. They are peculiar to this part of the world, though allied to the ordinary gipsies all over the world. ❞
❝ The leader of the gypsies, a splendid-looking fellow who sat his horse like a centaur ❞
TS
The Slovaks
Episodic
Synthesis
More barbarian than the rest, with big cow-boy hats, great baggy dirty-white trousers, white linen shirts, and enormous heavy leather belts, nearly a foot wide, all studded over with brass nails. They wear high boots, with their trousers tucked into them, and have long black hair and heavy black moustaches. They are very picturesque, but do not look prepossessing.
❝ The strangest figures we saw were the Slovaks, who were more barbarian than the rest, with their big cow-boy hats, great baggy dirty-white trousers, white linen shirts, and enormous heavy leather belts, nearly a foot wide, all studded over with brass nails. They wore high boots, with their trousers tucked into them, and had long black hair and heavy black moustaches. ❞
TC
The child (victim of the 'bloofer lady')
Episodic
Synthesis
A tiny child, found in the churchyard. It has small punctured wounds on its throat.
❝ a tiny child ❞
TD
The dog (half-bred mastiff)
Episodic
Synthesis
A half-bred mastiff belonging to a coal merchant close to Tate Hill Pier. It is found dead, its throat torn away and its belly slit open.
❝ a large dog, a half-bred mastiff belonging to a coal merchant close to Tate Hill Pier, was found dead in the roadway opposite to its master’s yard. It had been fighting, and manifestly had had a savage opponent, for its throat was torn away, and its belly was slit open as if with a savage claw. ❞
TW
The woman (mother of the child taken by the Count)
Episodic
Synthesis
A woman with dishevelled hair, holding her hands over her heart as one distressed with running.
❝ a woman with dishevelled hair, holding her hands over her heart as one distressed with running. ❞
TM
The maid (at Hillingham)
Episodic
Synthesis
One of the maids at Hillingham. She is described as a poor girl putting aside the terrors of death to watch by her mistress's bier.
❝ Here was a poor girl putting aside the terrors which she naturally had of death to go watch alone by the bier of the mistress whom she loved ❞
TA
The attendant (Simmons)
Episodic
Synthesis
An attendant at the asylum. He is described as having a finger broken by Renfield.
TN
The night-watchman
Episodic
Synthesis
The night-watchman at the asylum who reports Renfield's escape.
TP
The porter (at Carfax)
Episodic
Synthesis
The porter at the gate of the empty house adjoining the asylum.
TT
The two carriers (Jack Smollet and Thomas Snelling)
Episodic
Synthesis
Two men in the employment of Harris & Sons, Moving and Shipment Company. They are described as burly men.
TL
The locksmith
Episodic
Synthesis
A thick-set working man with a rush-woven basket of tools.
❝ a thick-set working man with his rush-woven basket of tools. ❞
TT
The telegraph boy
Episodic
Synthesis
A telegraph boy who delivers a message.
TL
The landlord (at the Golden Krone Hotel)
Episodic
Synthesis
An elderly man in white shirt-sleeves, who followed the landlady to the door.
TF
The fellow-passenger (on the coach)
Episodic
Synthesis
One of the passengers on the coach to the Borgo Pass. He explains the meaning of the sign of the cross.
TD
The driver of the coach (to Bukovina)
Episodic
Synthesis
The driver of the diligence. He has wide linen drawers covering the whole front of the box-seat ('gotza' they call them). He cracks his big whip over his four small horses.
❝ our driver, whose wide linen drawers covered the whole front of the box-seat—'gotza' they call them—cracked his big whip over his four small horses, which ran abreast ❞
TO
The 'hetman' of the Szgany
Episodic
Synthesis
The leader of the gypsy band at the castle.
TW
The woman who performed the last offices for the dead
Episodic
Synthesis
A woman who remarks on Lucy's beauty in death.
❝ She makes a very beautiful corpse, sir. It's quite a privilege to attend on her. ❞
TU
The undertaker
Episodic
Synthesis
An urbane undertaker, whose staff are afflicted with something of his own obsequious suavity.
❝ the urbane undertaker proved that his staff were afflicted—or blessed—with something of his own obsequious suavity. ❞
TS
The sexton
Episodic
Synthesis
The sexton of the churchyard at Kingstead.
TG
The gravediggers
Episodic
Synthesis
Gravediggers at Kingstead churchyard.
TP
The policeman (on Hampstead Heath)
Episodic
Synthesis
A policeman who finds the abandoned child.
TH
The horse patrol
Episodic
Synthesis
The patrol of horse police doing their usual suburban round.
TG
The gardener (at the Zoo)
Episodic
Synthesis
A gardener who sees a big grey dog coming out through the garden hedges.
TN
The nurse (at the hospital)
Episodic
Synthesis
A nurse at the North Hospital.
TP
The parents of the child
Episodic
Synthesis
The parents of the child attacked by the 'bloofer lady'.
TA
The agent (Ristics)
Episodic
Synthesis
The agent in Varna to whom the box is to be delivered.
TV
The Vice-Consul (at Varna)
Episodic
Synthesis
The Vice-Consul at Varna, who is sick.
TC
The clerk (at the Consulate)
Episodic
Synthesis
A clerk at the Consulate who is very obliging.
TS
The shipping agent (Mackenzie & Steinkoff)
Episodic
Synthesis
The agents of the London firm of Hapgood in Galatz. They are more than kind and courteous.
TL
The landlord of Skinsky
Episodic
Synthesis
The landlord of Petrof Skinsky, who received the key and rent by messenger.
TN
The neighbour of Skinsky
Episodic
Synthesis
A neighbour of Skinsky who does not bear him any affection.
TP
The people running to see Skinsky's body
Episodic
Synthesis
People who run to see the horror of Skinsky's body, the women crying out.
TF
The farmers (who exchange horses)
Episodic
Synthesis
Farmers who provide horses for Van Helsing and Mina on their journey.
TW
The woman (at the first house where Mina and Van Helsing stopped)
Episodic
Synthesis
A woman who served Mina and Van Helsing, and who crossed herself when she saw the scar on Mina's forehead.
TL
The landlady (at Veresti)
Episodic
Synthesis
The landlady at Veresti who puts up a huge basket of provisions.
TB
The boy (Jonathan and Mina's son, Quincey)
Episodic
Synthesis
The son of Jonathan and Mina Harker, born seven years after the events. He is called Quincey.
CA
Castle Dracula
Synthesis
A vast ruined castle perched on the edge of a terrible precipice, with broken battlements and tall black windows. The courtyard is of considerable size, with several dark ways leading from it under great round arches. The castle is built on the corner of a great rock, impregnable on three sides. Inside, there are winding stairs, stone passages, a library, a dining-room, a bedroom, and a chapel used as a graveyard. The rooms are dusty and moth-eaten, with old furniture. The Count's room contains a heap of gold and a heavy door leading to a circular stairway and a dark tunnel-like passage to the chapel. The castle is a veritable prison, with all doors locked and bolted.
❝ Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the moonlit sky. ❞
❝ In the gloom the courtyard looked of considerable size, and as several dark ways led from it under great round arches, it perhaps seemed bigger than it really is. ❞
❝ The castle is on the very edge of a terrible precipice. A stone falling from the window would fall a thousand feet without touching anything! ❞
❝ I went out on the stairs, and found a room looking towards the South. The view was magnificent... As far as the eye can reach is a sea of green tree tops, with occasionally a deep rift where there is a chasm. ❞
❝ The castle was built on the corner of a great rock, so that on three sides it was quite impregnable... ❞
❝ I found myself in an old, ruined chapel, which had evidently been used as a graveyard. The roof was broken, and in two places were steps leading to vaults, but the ground had recently been dug over, and the earth placed in great wooden boxes... ❞
❝ I went through the door in the corner and down the winding stair and along the dark passage to the old chapel. ❞
❝ The only thing I found was a great heap of gold in one corner—gold of all kinds... covered with a film of dust, as though it had lain long in the ground. ❞
❝ At one corner of the room was a heavy door. I tried it... It was open, and led through a stone passage to a circular stairway, which went steeply down. ❞
❝ At the bottom there was a dark, tunnel-like passage, through which came a deathly, sickly odour, the odour of old earth newly turned. ❞
❝ The castle is a veritable prison, and I am a prisoner! ❞
❝ I found one door at the top of the stairway which, though it seemed to be locked, gave a little under pressure... I was now in a wing of the castle further to the right than the rooms I knew and a storey lower down. ❞
CA
Carfax
Synthesis
An old, neglected estate near Purfleet, surrounded by a high stone wall. The house is large, with parts dating back to medieval times, including a thick stone section with few windows heavily barred. There is an old chapel or church attached. The grounds contain many trees, making it gloomy, and a deep, dark pond or small lake fed by springs. The house is dusty and decayed, with a foul, earthy smell in the chapel where the earth boxes are stored.
❝ It is surrounded by a high wall, of ancient structure, built of heavy stones, and has not been repaired for a large number of years. The closed gates are of heavy old oak and iron, all eaten with rust. ❞
❝ The estate is called Carfax, no doubt a corruption of the old Quatre Face, as the house is four-sided, agreeing with the cardinal points of the compass. ❞
❝ It contains in all some twenty acres, quite surrounded by the solid stone wall above mentioned. There are many trees on it, which make it in places gloomy, and there is a deep, dark-looking pond or small lake, evidently fed by some springs, as the water is clear and flows away in a fair-sized stream. ❞
❝ The house is very large and of all periods back, I should say, to mediæval times, for one part is of stone immensely thick, with only a few windows high up and heavily barred with iron. It looks like part of a keep, and is close to an old chapel or church. ❞
❝ The whole place was thick with dust. The floor was seemingly inches deep... The walls were fluffy and heavy with dust, and in the corners were masses of spider's webs... ❞
❝ But as to the odour itself, how shall I describe it? It was not alone that it was composed of all the ills of mortality and with the pungent, acrid smell of blood, but it seemed as though corruption had become itself corrupt. ❞
❝ A glance was sufficient to show how many remained, for the great earth chests were bulky, and there was no mistaking them. There were only twenty-nine left out of the fifty! ❞
❝ The whole place was becoming alive with rats. ❞
HI
Hillingham
Synthesis
The Westenra family home, a comfortable house with a boudoir, dining-room, and Lucy's bedroom. It has a shrubbery outside. The house is well-furnished and cozy, but becomes a place of horror during Lucy's illness and death.
❝ We went into her boudoir, and till we got there her gaiety remained... ❞
❝ The room was awfully stuffy. There were a lot of those horrible, strong-smelling flowers about everywhere... ❞
❝ On the bed lay two women, Lucy and her mother. The latter lay farthest in, and she was covered with a white sheet... ❞
❝ The undertaker had certainly done his work well, for the room was turned into a small chapelle ardente. There was a wilderness of beautiful white flowers... ❞
❝ Outside in the shrubbery I heard a sort of howl like a dog's, but more fierce and deeper. ❞
WH
Whitby Churchyard and East Cliff
Synthesis
A churchyard on the East Cliff overlooking Whitby harbour and the sea. It contains many tombstones, some leaning over the cliff edge. There are walks with seats, and a steep flight of steps leads up from the town. The view includes the harbour, the piers with lighthouses, and the ruins of Whitby Abbey. It is a popular spot for visitors.
❝ Right over the town is the ruin of Whitby Abbey... It is a most noble ruin, of immense size, and full of beautiful and romantic bits... ❞
❝ Between it and the town there is another church, the parish one, round which is a big graveyard, all full of tombstones. ❞
❝ This is to my mind the nicest spot in Whitby, for it lies right over the town, and has a full view of the harbour and all up the bay... ❞
❝ It descends so steeply over the harbour that part of the bank has fallen away, and some of the graves have been destroyed. ❞
❝ There are walks, with seats beside them, through the churchyard; and people go and sit there all day long looking at the beautiful view and enjoying the breeze. ❞
❝ The steps are a great feature on the place. They lead from the town up to the church, there are hundreds of them... and they wind up in a delicate curve... ❞
❝ The harbour lies below me, with, on the far side, one long granite wall stretching out into the sea, with a curve outwards at the end of it, in the middle of which is a lighthouse. ❞
❝ Outside the harbour on this side there rises for about half a mile a great reef, the sharp edge of which runs straight out from behind the south lighthouse. At the end of it is a buoy with a bell... ❞
DR
Dr. Seward's Lunatic Asylum
Synthesis
A stone building near Carfax, housing lunatic patients. It contains a study, padded rooms, and wards. The grounds are separated from Carfax by a high wall. The atmosphere is grim and cold, with the sounds of patients often heard.
❝ I was engaged after dinner in my study posting up my books... ❞
❝ He is safe now at any rate. Jack Sheppard himself couldn't get free from the strait-waistcoat that keeps him restrained, and he's chained to the wall in the padded room. ❞
❝ I reached him just as the sun was going down, and from his window saw the red disc sink. ❞
❝ It was a shock to me to turn from the wonderful smoky beauty of a sunset over London... and to realise all the grim sternness of my own cold stone building, with its wealth of breathing misery... ❞
❝ The house was silent when we got back, save for some poor creature who was screaming away in one of the distant wards... ❞
TH
The Berkeley Hotel
Synthesis
A hotel in London where Van Helsing stays. It is a comfortable, well-appointed hotel, used as a base for meetings.
❝ Have then rooms for me at the Great Eastern Hotel, so that I may be near to hand... ❞
❝ When we arrived at the Berkeley Hotel, Van Helsing found a telegram waiting for him... ❞
TH
The Demeter (Ship)
Synthesis
A Russian schooner that sailed from Varna to Whitby, carrying a cargo of silver sand and boxes of earth. It arrived in Whitby during a great storm, steered by a dead man lashed to the wheel. The ship is described as having a deck, hold, and cabin. It is a place of terror and death during the voyage.
❝ It turns out that the schooner is a Russian from Varna, and is called the Demeter. She is almost entirely in ballast of silver sand, with only a small amount of cargo—a number of great wooden boxes filled with mould. ❞
❝ Lashed to the helm was a corpse, with drooping head, which swung horribly to and fro at each motion of the ship. ❞
❝ The man was simply fastened by his hands, tied one over the other, to a spoke of the wheel. Between the inner hand and the wood was a crucifix... ❞
❝ On 6 July we finished taking in cargo, silver sand and boxes of earth. At noon set sail. ❞
❝ I saw a tall, thin man, who was not like any of the crew, come up the companion-way, and go along the deck forward, and disappear. ❞
❝ He sprang on the bulwark and deliberately threw himself into the sea. ❞
TH
The Czarina Catherine (Ship)
Synthesis
A ship that sailed from London to Varna and then to Galatz, carrying Count Dracula's last earth-box. It made a phenomenally quick journey, often shrouded in fog. The captain is a Scotsman named Donelson.
❝ She is the Czarina Catherine, and she sail from Doolittle's Wharf for Varna, and thence on to other parts and up the Danube. ❞
❝ The Czarina Catherine made a phenomenally quick journey—so much so that Captain Donelson's suspicions were aroused... ❞
❝ We ran by Gibraltar wi'oot bein' able to signal; an' till we came to the Dardanelles and had to wait to get our permit to pass, we never were within hail o' aught. ❞
❝ When we got past the Bosphorus the men began to grumble... some o' them, the Roumanians, came and asked me to heave overboard a big box... ❞
TH
The Borgo Pass
Synthesis
A mountain pass in the Carpathians, leading from Bistritz into Bukovina. It is a wild, desolate area, surrounded by steep hills and forests. The road is rugged and winding. It is the place where Jonathan Harker is met by the Count's carriage.
❝ Then the mountains seemed to come nearer to us on each side and to frown down upon us; we were entering on the Borgo Pass. ❞
❝ At the Borgo Pass my carriage will await you and will bring you to me. ❞
❝ We could see now the sandy road lying white before us, but there was on it no sign of a vehicle. ❞
❝ Soon we were hemmed in with trees, which in places arched right over the roadway till we passed as through a tunnel; and again great frowning rocks guarded us boldly on either side. ❞
TH
The Piccadilly House (No. 347)
Synthesis
A large, empty house in Piccadilly, London, purchased by Count Dracula under the name Count de Ville. It has a stone front with a bow, high steps, and a stable yard at the back. Inside, it is dusty and neglected, with a foul smell. The dining-room contains eight boxes of earth and various papers belonging to the Count.
❝ It's a 'igh 'un with a stone front with a bow on it, an' 'igh steps up to the door. ❞
❝ The house looked as though it had been long untenanted. The windows were encrusted with dust, and the shutters were up. ❞
❝ It did indeed smell vilely—like the old chapel at Carfax... ❞
❝ In the dining-room, which lay at the back of the hall, we found eight boxes of earth. ❞
❝ They lay in a sort of orderly disorder on the great dining-room table. There were title deeds of the Piccadilly house in a great bundle... ❞
❝ The original vendors are the executors of the late Mr. Archibald Winter-Suffield. The purchaser is a foreign nobleman, Count de Ville... ❞
TH
The Tomb of Lucy Westenra (Kingstead Churchyard)
Synthesis
A tomb in a lonely churchyard on Hampstead Hill, where Lucy and her mother are buried. It is a stone structure with a heavy door and a lock. Inside, there are coffins, including a leaden one. The tomb is dark, dusty, and spider-infested, with a grim atmosphere.
❝ Lucy lies in the tomb of her kin, a lordly death-house in a lonely churchyard, away from teeming London; where the air is fresh, and the sun rises over Hampstead Hill... ❞
❝ The tomb in the day-time, and when wreathed with fresh flowers, had looked grim and gruesome enough; but now, some days afterwards, when the flowers hung lank and dead... the effect was more miserable and sordid than could have been imagined. ❞
❝ Van Helsing went about his work systematically. Holding his candle so that he could read the coffin plates... he made assurance of Lucy's coffin. ❞
❝ The coffin was empty. ❞
❝ There lay Lucy, seemingly just as we had seen her the night before her funeral. She was, if possible, more radiantly beautiful than ever... ❞
TH
The Hotel Royale (Klausenburgh)
Synthesis
An inn where Jonathan Harker stays overnight on his journey to Transylvania. It is comfortable, with a bed and a carafe of water. A dog howls under the window at night.
❝ Here I stopped for the night at the Hotel Royale. ❞
❝ I did not sleep well, though my bed was comfortable enough, for I had all sorts of queer dreams. There was a dog howling all night under my window... ❞
TH
The Golden Krone Hotel (Bistritz)
Synthesis
A thoroughly old-fashioned inn in Bistritz, where Jonathan Harker stays before crossing the Borgo Pass. It has a door, a bench outside, and an inn-yard with oleander and orange trees in green tubs.
❝ Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-fashioned... ❞
❝ I shall never forget the last glimpse which I had of the inn-yard and its crowd of picturesque figures, all crossing themselves, as they stood round the wide archway, with its background of rich foliage of oleander and orange trees in green tubs clustered in the centre of the yard. ❞
❝ When I got near the door I faced a cheery-looking elderly woman in the usual peasant dress... ❞
EX
Exeter (Mr. Hawkins' House)
Synthesis
A beautiful old house near the cathedral close, with views of great elms and the cathedral. It is comfortable and welcoming, where Mina and Jonathan live after their marriage.
❝ So here we are, installed in this beautiful old house, and from both my bedroom and the drawing-room I can see the great elms of the cathedral close, with their great black stems standing out against the old yellow stone of the cathedral... ❞
❝ He took us to his house, where there were rooms for us all nice and comfortable, and we dined together. ❞
TH
The Green Park
Synthesis
A park in London near Piccadilly, with benches and shady places. The party waits here while the locksmith opens the Piccadilly house.
❝ We sat down on a bench within good view, and began to smoke cigars so as to attract as little attention as possible. ❞
VA
Varna
Synthesis
A port city on the Black Sea, where the party waits for the Czarina Catherine. They stay at the Hotel Odessus. The city has a consulate and shipping agents.
❝ We left Charing Cross on the morning of the 12th, got to Paris the same night, and took the places secured for us in the Orient Express. We travelled night and day, arriving here at about five o'clock. ❞
❝ Lord Godalming went to the Consulate to see if any telegram had arrived for him, whilst the rest of us came on to this hotel—'the Odessus.' ❞
GA
Galatz
Synthesis
A port city on the Danube, where the Czarina Catherine actually arrives. The party travels here by train and stays at a hotel. It has a Vice-Consulate and shipping agents.
❝ Czarina Catherine reported entering Galatz at one o'clock to-day. ❞
❝ We are due to arrive between two and three in the morning; but already, at Bucharest, we are three hours late... ❞
TH
The Bistritza River
Synthesis
A river in Romania that joins the Sereth at Fundu. It is used by the Count's boat to travel towards the Borgo Pass. The river has rapids and is surrounded by wild, mountainous country.
❝ We have now passed into the Bistritza; and if we are wrong in our surmise our chance is gone. ❞
❝ The loop it makes is manifestly as close to Dracula's castle as can be got by water. ❞
TH
The Sereth River
Synthesis
A river in Romania that flows into the Danube. It is one of the possible routes for the Count's escape.
❝ I have examined the map and find that the river most suitable for the Slovaks to have ascended is either the Pruth or the Sereth. ❞
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