| is a novel written as an assembly of non-conventional | | | | suffering from brain fever. Mina receives the letter and |
| collective narrating means such as diaries, narrations, | | | | immediately goes forward to nurse him and take his |
| letters, journals and phonographs. It is a horror classic | | | | care. In parallel, Van Helsing arrives in Whitby. He |
| novel involving Count Dracula - a legendary fictional | | | | examines Lucy and surprisingly suggests to embrace |
| vampire. | | | | her room with garlic (which is supposedly a charm |
| A young English lawyer, Jonathan Harker, travels to | | | | against vampires). Lucy reacts positively, showing signs |
| Eastern European country of Transylvania to the | | | | of recovery. But Lucy’s mother removes the |
| Dracula Castle to do a real-estate transaction Count | | | | garlic plants from Lucy’s room, since she does |
| Dracula, a nobleman. On his way through the | | | | not have an idea of the powers of Garlic. This leaves |
| countryside, at his stops, the peasants and localites | | | | Lucy vulnerable again to attacks from Dracula. |
| warn him. The warning is against his destination | | | | Van Helsing, assisted by John Seward, devotes a |
| Dracula Castle. They give him different charms | | | | number of days trying to have Lucy recovered. They |
| including crucifixe against evil. Harker translaters (later) | | | | perform four blood transfusions, taking once each |
| theur utterings into what means vampire. | | | | from Seward, Holmwood, Morris and Van Helsing. But |
| However, Jonathan Harker continues with his journey. | | | | all their efforts go to vain when one night a wolf |
| He meets the pick-up carriage coming from Dracula | | | | breaks into their house and kill Lucy. Her mother dies |
| as planned. The carriage is attacked by wolves all the | | | | also of a fatal heart attack from fear. After Lucy's |
| way, and the journey is not too pleasant either. | | | | death, children start disappearing mysteriously. Van |
| Jonathan Harker arrives in the castle, which is almost in | | | | Helsing realizes that Lucy, now Un-Dead like |
| ruins. He is welcomed by the elderly Dracula. Dracula | | | | Dracula, is preying on them. He then leads Holmwood |
| appears to be an educated and cordial person. But | | | | (now Lord Godalming since his father dies in the |
| after a short while - a few days - Harker realizes that | | | | meanwhile and the title passes on), Seward, and |
| he is a prisoner in the castle. And he realizes, most | | | | Quincey Morris to her tomb and convinces them that |
| uneasily, that Dracula’s diabolical powers and | | | | Lucy has been transformed into a Dracula-like vampire |
| ambitions is all set to send him to ruins. Deviod of the | | | | and show Lucy prey on a helpless child to prove |
| option to run away, he had to continue to stay on. And | | | | the same. To send Lucy to the state of real death and |
| then, one fine evening, three beautiful woman vampires | | | | release her from vampire-hood, they agree to dive a |
| nearly attack him. Just in time the count opposes them | | | | stake through her heart when she sleeps in her |
| and resists their impending attack on Harker. He | | | | vampire-sleep. Then they cut off her head and stuff |
| mentions that Harker belongs to him. Fearing the loss | | | | her mouth with garlic. Once through with this ordeal of |
| of his life, Harker desperately climbs down the Dracula | | | | a ritual, they vow to remove Dracula from the Earth. |
| Castle’s walls and escapes. | | | | Jonathan and Mina marry and return to England. Van |
| In the meantime, at home in England, Harker's | | | | Helsing contacts them and they all join hands. They |
| fiancée, Mina Murray, writes to her friend Lucy | | | | accumulate the various diary and journal entries that all |
| Westenra. Lucy tells Mina that three men have | | | | of them have made. Thus they attempt to collage a |
| proposed her marriage Dr. John Seward, Arthur | | | | narrative to better figure out Count Dracula’s |
| Holmwood (the future Lord Godalming), and Quincey | | | | plans so that they can reach him. The men track the |
| Morris, a brave American. Lucy accepts Holmwood's | | | | earth boxes of Dracula. In the meanwhile, they realize |
| proposal, but felt sad that could not accept the | | | | that Renfield, a mental patient of Dr. Seward, has let |
| proposals of the two other honorable men. In what | | | | Dracula into the asylum where they are staying. This |
| follows, Mina decides to visit Lucy at Whitby, a seaside | | | | has allowed Count Dracula to start preying upon Mina. |
| town, and actually visits her. During her visit, a Russian | | | | Mina starts changing into a vampire slowly but steadily. |
| ship gets wrecked near the town’s shore. All | | | | The men press the urgent button and sterilize all but |
| the crew from the ship go missing and the captain is | | | | one of the boxes of earth. The one remaining box |
| found dead. A large dog jumps down from the ship | | | | goes missing. Dracula takes it, forced to escape to |
| and runs off deep into the countryside. The only cargo | | | | Transylvania, his native home. They hunt down the |
| in the ship happens to be the set of fifty earth boxes | | | | count, using Mina’s hypnotic connection with |
| shipped from the Dracula castle. Within a short period, | | | | Dracula. Once they cross the sea and reach nearer to |
| Lucy suddenly starts to walk in her sleep. One night, | | | | Transylvania, they break up into three teams and take |
| Lucy is found by Mina in a cemetery. Mina thinks that | | | | three routes, so that Dracula can not escape through |
| she sees a dark shade with deep red eyes glowing, | | | | any one of them. They cover the land and the water. |
| bend over Lucy. As the days pass by, Lucy falls pale, | | | | Mina goes with Van Helsing, who kills the three female |
| weak and ill. She develops two tiny red marks around | | | | vampires. He seals Castle Dracula entrances with |
| her throat from inexplicable sources. Not being able to | | | | crucifixes. Castle Dracula becomes purified. They |
| diagnose Lucy’s illness, Dr. John Seward | | | | catch up with Dracula as he comes on verge of |
| requests Professor Van Helsing, his old Professor, to | | | | reaching his castle. Jonathan and Quincey run knives |
| step into the scenario. | | | | through his heart. |
| In the meantime, Harker is found in Budapest. He is | | | | |