Dramatis Personæ
The characters of Dracula
Count Dracula
Master of Castle Dracula
An ancient Transylvanian nobleman of striking appearance — aquiline nose, sharp white teeth, and a grip cold as ice. He has spent years studying England from his crumbling castle, and now prepares to move there.
Jonathan Harker
Solicitor
A young English solicitor, methodical and dutiful, who travels to Transylvania to finalize a property transaction for a foreign client. He keeps a meticulous shorthand journal and is engaged to marry Mina Murray.
Mina Murray
Jonathan’s Fiancée
Jonathan's fiancée and an assistant schoolmistress with a sharp, organized mind. She transcribes journals, cross-references timetables, and keeps everyone's records in order. Quietly the most capable person in any room she enters.
Lucy Westenra
Mina’s Dearest Friend
Mina's dearest friend — beautiful, vivacious, and warmly affectionate. She receives three marriage proposals in a single day and is utterly charmed by the predicament. A sleepwalker by habit, she summers with her mother in Whitby.
Professor Van Helsing
Doctor of Medicine, Philosophy, & Letters
A Dutch professor of medicine, philosophy, and obscure sciences — Dr. Seward's old mentor. Brilliant, eccentric, and prone to dramatic pauses. He arrives in England speaking urgently of matters the others are not yet ready to believe.
Dr. John Seward
Alienist, Keeper of a Lunatic Asylum
A young doctor of mental diseases who runs a private lunatic asylum adjacent to the Carfax estate. He records his thoughts on a phonograph and approaches the world with careful, clinical detachment — though his heart is more tender than he lets on.
Arthur Holmwood
Lucy’s Fiancé
A wealthy young aristocrat and the man Lucy Westenra chooses to marry. Generous, earnest, and deeply in love.
Quincey Morris
Texan Adventurer
A Texan adventurer with a big heart and a bowie knife — one of Lucy's three suitors and a steadfast friend to the other two. He speaks plainly, acts bravely, and never hesitates when there is danger.
R. M. Renfield
Patient, Age 59
A patient in Dr. Seward's asylum, fifty-nine years of age, with a peculiar obsession: he collects flies, feeds them to spiders, feeds the spiders to sparrows, and yearns for something larger. His moods swing wildly between cunning composure and desperate agitation.
The Three Women
Denizens of Castle Dracula
Three women of unearthly beauty who inhabit Castle Dracula. They move like shadows, laugh like the tinkling of glass, and their lips are unsettlingly red. Jonathan encounters them in a forbidden wing of the castle.
The Coachman
The Count’s Driver
A tall, dark figure in a great black hat who drives the carriage from the Borgo Pass to Castle Dracula. His eyes gleam red in the lamplight, his grip is like iron, and the wolves obey him as though he were their master.
Mr. Hawkins
Solicitor, Jonathan’s Employer
The senior partner of the solicitors' firm and Jonathan's employer. An elderly, kindly man who treats Jonathan almost as a son and takes a fatherly interest in his career.
Mrs. Westenra
Lucy’s Mother
Lucy's mother, a gentle and anxious woman with a weak heart. She dotes on her daughter and worries terribly about her sleepwalking.
Sister Agatha
Nurse, Hospital of St. Joseph and Ste. Mary
A nurse at the Hospital of St. Joseph and Ste. Mary in Buda-Pesth. She tends to a feverish English patient who arrived raving about terrible things.
Mr. Swales
Old Sailor of Whitby
A weathered old sailor who holds court on the churchyard bench in Whitby, telling irreverent stories about the dead buried beneath the headstones. He is nearly a hundred and fears nothing — or claims to.
The Landlord
Innkeeper, Golden Krone Hotel
The innkeeper at the Golden Krone Hotel in Bistritz, where Jonathan stops on his way to the Borgo Pass. He grows visibly distressed when he learns where his young guest is headed.
The Landlady
Innkeeper’s Wife, Golden Krone Hotel
Wife of the Bistritz innkeeper. When words fail to dissuade Jonathan from his journey, she kneels and presses her own crucifix into his hands, insisting he take it for his mother's sake.