Bram Stoker

Creator Bram Stoker (1847-1912)
Profession Novelist
Total Entries 12
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The Real History That Went Into Bram Stoker’s Dracula– Time
Bram Stoker – Wikipedia
When Bram Stoker wrote his iconic novel, the original preface, which was published in Makt Myrkanna, the Icelandic version of the story, included this passage: I am quite convinced that there is no doubt whatever that the events here described really took place, however unbelievable and incomprehensible they might appear at first sight. And I am further convinced that they must always remain to some extent incomprehensible. He went on to claim that many of the characters in his novel were real people: All the people who have willingly — or unwillingly — played a part in this remarkable story are known generally and well respected. Both Jonathan Harker and his wife (who is a woman of character) and Dr. Seward are my friends and have been so for many years, and I have never doubted that they were telling the truth… Bram Stoker did not intend for Dracula to serve as fiction, but as a warning of a very real evil, a childhood nightmare all too real. ~ The Real History That Went Into Bram Stoker’s Dracula – Time

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Abraham Van Helsing

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In the novel Dracula, Van Helsing is called in by his former student, Dr. John Seward, to assist with the mysterious illness of Lucy Westenra. Van Helsing’s friendship with Seward is based in part upon […]

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In the novel Dracula, Van Helsing is called in by his former student, Dr. John Seward, to assist with the mysterious illness of Lucy Westenra. Van Helsing’s friendship with Seward is based in part upon […]

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Arabella March

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In Bram Stoker’s 1911 novel The Lair of the White Worm, Lady Arabella March is the Mistress of a mortgaged Diana’s Grove. She is described as a “cold-blooded” character. Her plot to get Diana’s Grove […]

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In Bram Stoker’s 1911 novel The Lair of the White Worm, Lady Arabella March is the Mistress of a mortgaged Diana’s Grove. She is described as a “cold-blooded” character. Her plot to get Diana’s Grove […]

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Arthur Holmwood

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He is engaged to Lucy Westenra, and is best friends with the other two men who proposed to her on the very same day — Quincey Morris and Doctor John Seward. In the novel, he […]

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He is engaged to Lucy Westenra, and is best friends with the other two men who proposed to her on the very same day — Quincey Morris and Doctor John Seward. In the novel, he […]

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Dracula

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Count Dracula is an undead, centuries-old vampire, and a Transylvanian nobleman who claims to be a Székely descended from Attila the Hun. He inhabits a decaying castle in the Carpathian Mountains near the Borgo Pass. […]

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Count Dracula is an undead, centuries-old vampire, and a Transylvanian nobleman who claims to be a Székely descended from Attila the Hun. He inhabits a decaying castle in the Carpathian Mountains near the Borgo Pass. […]

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John Seward

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Dr. John “Jack” Seward, M.D. is a fictional character appearing in Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula. Seward is the administrator of an insane asylum not far from Count Dracula’s first English home, Carfax. Throughout the […]

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Dr. John “Jack” Seward, M.D. is a fictional character appearing in Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula. Seward is the administrator of an insane asylum not far from Count Dracula’s first English home, Carfax. Throughout the […]

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Jonathan Harker

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Harker is a recently qualified solicitor from Exeter, who is appointed by his employer, Mr. Hawkins, to act as an estate agent for a foreign client named Count Dracula who wishes to move to London. […]

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Harker is a recently qualified solicitor from Exeter, who is appointed by his employer, Mr. Hawkins, to act as an estate agent for a foreign client named Count Dracula who wishes to move to London. […]

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Lucy Westenra

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Lucy Westenra is a fictional character in the 1897 novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. She is Mina Murray’s best friend and Count Dracula’s first English victim. Lucy Westenra is a 19-year old woman, “blonde, demure, […]

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Lucy Westenra is a fictional character in the 1897 novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. She is Mina Murray’s best friend and Count Dracula’s first English victim. Lucy Westenra is a 19-year old woman, “blonde, demure, […]

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Mina Murray

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Miss Mina Murray is a young schoolmistress who is engaged to Jonathan Harker, and best friends with Lucy Westenra. She visits Lucy in Whitby on July 24 of that year, when schools would have closed […]

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Miss Mina Murray is a young schoolmistress who is engaged to Jonathan Harker, and best friends with Lucy Westenra. She visits Lucy in Whitby on July 24 of that year, when schools would have closed […]

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Queen Tera

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“This Stele was a great slab of lapis lazuli, cut all over with hieroglyphic figures of small size and of much beauty. The cutting was filled in with some cement of exceeding fineness, and of […]

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“This Stele was a great slab of lapis lazuli, cut all over with hieroglyphic figures of small size and of much beauty. The cutting was filled in with some cement of exceeding fineness, and of […]

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Quincey Morris

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Quincey Morris is a rich young American from Texas, and one of the three men who proposes to Lucy Westenra. Quincey is friends with her other two admirers, Arthur Holmwood and Dr. John Seward, even […]

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Quincey Morris is a rich young American from Texas, and one of the three men who proposes to Lucy Westenra. Quincey is friends with her other two admirers, Arthur Holmwood and Dr. John Seward, even […]

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Renfield

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R. M. Renfield is a deranged, fanatically devoted servant and familiar, helping Count Dracula in his plan to turn Mina Harker into a vampire in return for a continuous supply of insects to consume and […]

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R. M. Renfield is a deranged, fanatically devoted servant and familiar, helping Count Dracula in his plan to turn Mina Harker into a vampire in return for a continuous supply of insects to consume and […]

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Weird Sisters

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In the novel Dracula (1897), the three vampire women are not individually named. Collectively, they are known as the “sisters”, and are at one point described as the “weird sisters”. Although the three vampire women […]

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In the novel Dracula (1897), the three vampire women are not individually named. Collectively, they are known as the “sisters”, and are at one point described as the “weird sisters”. Although the three vampire women […]