![]() ![]() The disbelieving men see Lucy revived and preying on young children after her apparent death they are forced to kill her, using a wooden stake driven through the heart. Those drained in turn become vampires Dracula is therefore the origin of an outbreak of a dangerous infection. It is only after Professor Van Helsing arrives, with an expertise in occult lore as well as medicine, that we learn that Dracula is a vampire, not just a figure of Eastern European superstition but a horrifying reality: a creature that sustains a half-life for centuries by sucking on the blood of the living. ![]() The novel offers suggestive glimpses of how he begins to prey on a local beauty, Lucy, who suffers a strange wasting disease that the professional men around her are unable to diagnose. Dracula makes his inexorable way to England, arriving on a ghost ship in the northern port of Whitby. Harker succumbs to brain fever, and can no longer quite trust his senses. ![]() Harker soon learns that local superstitions against the Count have some basis in reality: Dracula is deeply feared, and he seems to prey physically on the local population in some way. The Count wishes to discuss his planned move to London. A newly qualified lawyer, Jonathan Harker, travels to meet a client, Count Dracula, who resides in the remote Transylvanian mountains on the very edge of Christian Europe in the castle that has been the home of his aristocratic family for centuries. ![]()
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