Dracula
By Bram Stoker
The famous gothic horror novel that introduced the character of Count Dracula.
Table of Contents
How these papers have been placed in sequence will be made manifest in the reading of them. All needless matters have been eliminated, so that a history almost at variance with the...
JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL (_Kept in shorthand._) _3 May. Bistritz._--Left Munich at 8:35 P. M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, bu...
JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL--_continued_ _5 May._--I must have been asleep, for certainly if I had been fully awake I must have noticed the approach of such a remarkable place. In t...
JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL--_continued_ When I found that I was a prisoner a sort of wild feeling came over me. I rushed up and down the stairs, trying every door and peering out o...
JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL--_continued_ I awoke in my own bed. If it be that I had not dreamt, the Count must have carried me here. I tried to satisfy myself on the subject, but co...
_Letter from Miss Mina Murray to Miss Lucy Westenra._ “_9 May._ “My dearest Lucy,-- “Forgive my long delay in writing, but I have been simply overwhelmed with work. The life of ...
MINA MURRAY’S JOURNAL _24 July. Whitby._--Lucy met me at the station, looking sweeter and lovelier than ever, and we drove up to the house at the Crescent in which they have rooms...
CUTTING FROM “THE DAILYGRAPH,” 8 AUGUST (_Pasted in Mina Murray’s Journal._) From a Correspondent. _Whitby_. One of the greatest and suddenest storms on record has just been ex...
MINA MURRAY’S JOURNAL _Same day, 11 o’clock p. m._--Oh, but I am tired! If it were not that I had made my diary a duty I should not open it to-night. We had a lovely walk. Lucy, a...
_Letter, Mina Harker to Lucy Westenra._ “_Buda-Pesth, 24 August._ “My dearest Lucy,-- “I know you will be anxious to hear all that has happened since we parted at the railway st...
_Letter, Dr. Seward to Hon. Arthur Holmwood._ “_6 September._ “My dear Art,-- “My news to-day is not so good. Lucy this morning had gone back a bit. There is, however, one good ...
_Lucy Westenra’s Diary._ _12 September._--How good they all are to me. I quite love that dear Dr. Van Helsing. I wonder why he was so anxious about these flowers. He positively fr...
DR. SEWARD’S DIARY _18 September._--I drove at once to Hillingham and arrived early. Keeping my cab at the gate, I went up the avenue alone. I knocked gently and rang as quietly a...
DR. SEWARD’S DIARY--_continued_. The funeral was arranged for the next succeeding day, so that Lucy and her mother might be buried together. I attended to all the ghastly formalit...
MINA HARKER’S JOURNAL _23 September_.--Jonathan is better after a bad night. I am so glad that he has plenty of work to do, for that keeps his mind off the terrible things; and oh...
DR. SEWARD’S DIARY--_continued_. For a while sheer anger mastered me; it was as if he had during her life struck Lucy on the face. I smote the table hard and rose up as I said to ...
DR. SEWARD’S DIARY--_continued_ It was just a quarter before twelve o’clock when we got into the churchyard over the low wall. The night was dark with occasional gleams of moonlig...
DR. SEWARD’S DIARY--_continued_ When we arrived at the Berkeley Hotel, Van Helsing found a telegram waiting for him:-- “Am coming up by train. Jonathan at Whitby. Important ...
DR. SEWARD’S DIARY _30 September._--I got home at five o’clock, and found that Godalming and Morris had not only arrived, but had already studied the transcript of the various dia...
JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL _1 October, 5 a. m._--I went with the party to the search with an easy mind, for I think I never saw Mina so absolutely strong and well. I am so glad tha...
JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL _1 October, evening._--I found Thomas Snelling in his house at Bethnal Green, but unhappily he was not in a condition to remember anything. The very pros...
DR. SEWARD’S DIARY _3 October._--Let me put down with exactness all that happened, as well as I can remember it, since last I made an entry. Not a detail that I can recall must be...
JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL _3 October._--As I must do something or go mad, I write this diary. It is now six o’clock, and we are to meet in the study in half an hour and take somet...
DR. SEWARD’S DIARY _3 October._--The time seemed terribly long whilst we were waiting for the coming of Godalming and Quincey Morris. The Professor tried to keep our minds active ...
DR. SEWARD’S PHONOGRAPH DIARY, SPOKEN BY VAN HELSING This to Jonathan Harker. You are to stay with your dear Madam Mina. We shall go to make our search--if I can call it so, for ...
DR. SEWARD’S DIARY _11 October, Evening._--Jonathan Harker has asked me to note this, as he says he is hardly equal to the task, and he wants an exact record kept. I think that n...
DR. SEWARD’S DIARY _29 October._--This is written in the train from Varna to Galatz. Last night we all assembled a little before the time of sunset. Each of us had done his work a...
MINA HARKER’S JOURNAL _1 November._--All day long we have travelled, and at a good speed. The horses seem to know that they are being kindly treated, for they go willingly their f...