by Bram Stoker
Table of Contents
FROM THE PAGES OF DRACULA
Title Page
Copyright Page
BRAM STOKER
THE WORLD OF BRAM STOKER AND DRACULA
Introduction
Dedication
CHAPTER I
JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL - (Kept in shorthand)
CHAPTER II
JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL—(continued)
CHAPTER III
JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL—(continued)
CHAPTER IV
JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL—(continued)
CHAPTER V
LETTER FROM MISS MINA MURRAY TO MISS LUCY WESTENRA
LETTER, LUCY WESTENRA TO MINA MURRAY
LETTER, LUCY WESTENRA TO MINA MURRAY
DR SEWARD’S DIARY - (Kept in phonograph)
LETTER, QUINCEY P. MORRIS TO HON. ARTHUR HOLMWOOD
TELEGRAM FROM ARTHUR HOLMWOOD TO QUINCEY P. MORRIS
CHAPTER VI
MINA MURRAY’S JOURNAL
DR SEWARD’S DIARY
MINA MURRAY’S JOURNAL
CHAPTER VII
CUTTING FROM THE DAILYGRAPH, 8 AUGUST - (Pasted in Mina Murray’s Journal)
LOG OF THE DEMETER - varna to Whitby Written 18 july, things so strange ...
MINA MURRAY’S JOURNAL
CHAPTER VIII
MINA MURRAY’S JOURNAL
LETTER, SAMUEL F. BILLINGTON & SON, SOLICITORS, WHITBY, TO MESSRS. CARTER, ...
LETTER, MESSRS. CARTER, PATERSON & CO., LONDON, TO MESSRS. BILLINGTON & SON, WHITBY
MINA MURRAY’S JOURNAL
LETTER, SISTER AGATHA, HOSPITAL OF ST JOSEPH AND STE MARY, BUDA-PESTH, TO MISS ...
DR SEWARD’S DIARY
CHAPTER IX
LETTER, MINA HARKER TO LUCY WESTENRA
LETTER, LUCY WESTENRA TO MINA HARKER
DR SEWARD’S DIARY
LUCY WESTENRA’S DIARY
LETTER, ARTHUR HOLMWOOD TO DR SEWARD
TELEGRAM, ARTHUR HOLMWOOD TO DR SEWARD
LETTER FROM DR SEWARD TO ARTHUR HOLMWOOD
LETTER, ABRAHAM VAN HELSING, M.D., D.PH., D.LIT., ETC., ETC., TO DR SEWARD
LETTER, DR SEWARD TO HON. ARTHUR HOLMWOOD
DR SEWARD’S DIARY
TELEGRAM, SEWARD, LONDON, TO VAN HELSING, AMSTERDAM
TELEGRAM, SEWARD, LONDON, TO VAN HELSING, AMSTERDAM
TELEGRAM, SEWARD, LONDON, TO VAN HELSING, AMSTERDAM
CHAPTER X
LETTER, DR SEWARD TO HON. ARTHUR HOLMWOOD
DR SEWARD’S DIARY
DR SEWARD’S DIARY - (continued)
LUCY WESTENRA’S DIARY
DR SEWARD’S DIARY
CHAPTER XI
LUCY WESTENRA’S DIARY
DR SEWARD’S DIARY
LUCY WESTENRA’S DIARY
THE PALL MALL GAZETTE, 18 SEPTEMBER
DR SEWARD’S DIARY
TELEGRAM, VAN HELSING, ANTWERP, TO SEWARD, CARFAX - (Sent to Carfax, Sussex, ...
DR SEWARD’S DIARY
MEMORANDUM LEFT BY LUCY WESTENRA
CHAPTER XII
DR SEWARD’S DIARY
LETTER, MINA HARKER TO LUCY WESTENRA - (Unopened by her.)
REPORT FROM PATRICK HENNESSEY, M.D., M.R.C.S., L.K.Q.C.P.I., ETC., ETC., TO ...
LETTER, MINA HARKER TO LUCY WESTENRA - (Unopened by her.)
DR SEWARD’S DIARY
CHAPTER XIII
DR SEWARD’S DIARY-(continued)
MINA HARKER’S JOURNAL
DR SEWARD’S DIARY
THE WESTMINSTER GAZETTE, 25 SEPTEMBER
THE WESTMINSTER GAZETTE, 25 SEPTEMBER
CHAPTER XIV
MINA HARKER’S JOURNAL
LETTER, VAN HELSING TO MRS HARKER
TELEGRAM, MRS HARKER TO VAN HELSING
MINA HARKER’S JOURNAL
LETTER (BY HAND), VAN HELSING TO MRS HARKER
LETTER, MRS HARKER TO VAN HELSING
JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL
DR SEWARD’S DIARY
CHAPTER XV
DR SEWARD’S DIARY—(continued)
NOTE LEFT BY VAN HELSING IN HIS PORTMANTEAU, BERKELEY HOTEL, DIRECTED TO JOHN ...
DR SEWARD’S DIARY
CHAPTER XVI
DR SEWARD’S DIARY—(continued)
CHAPTER XVII
DR SEWARD’S DIARY—(continued)
MINA HARKER’S JOURNAL
DR SEWARD’S DIARY
MINA HARKER’S JOURNAL
DR SEWARD’S DIARY
JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL
MINA HARKER’S JOURNAL
CHAPTER XVIII
DR SEWARD’S DIARY
MINA HARKER’S JOURNAL
DR SEWARD’S DIARY
CHAPTER XIX
JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL
DR SEWARD’S DIARY
MINA HARKER’S JOURNAL
CHAPTER XX
JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL
DR SEWARD’S DIARY
LETTER, MITCHELL, SONS AND CANDY TO LORD GODALMING
DR SEWARD’S DIARY
CHAPTER XXI
DR SEWARD’S DIARY
CHAPTER XXII
JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL
CHAPTER XXIII
DR SEWARD’S DIARY
JONATHAN HARICER’S JOURNAL
CHAPTER XXIV
DR SEWARD’S PHONOGRAPH DIARY, SPOKEN BY VAN HELSING
JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL
MINA HARKER’S JOURNAL
DR SEWARD’S DIARY
JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL
CHAPTER XXV
DR SEWARD’S DIARY
JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL
RUFUS SMITH, LLOYD’S, LONDON, TO LORD GODALMING, CARE OF H.B.M. VICE-CONSUL, ...
DR SEWARD’S DIARY
28 OCTOBER—TELEGRAM, RUFUS SMITH, LONDON, TO LORD GODALMING, CARE OF H.B.M. ...
DR SEWARD’S DIARY
CHAPTER XXVI
DR SEWARD’S DIARY
MINA HARKER’S JOURNAL
JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL
MINA HARKER’S JOURNAL
MINA HARKER’S MEMORANDUM - (Entered in her Journal)
MINA HARKER’S JOURNAL—(continued)
JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL
DR SEWARD’S DIARY
MINA HARKER’S JOURNAL
CHAPTER XXVII
MINA HARKER’S JOURNAL
MEMORANDUM BY ABRAHAM VAN HELSING
JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL
DR SEWARD’S DIARY
DR VAN HELSING’S MEMORANDUM
DRACULA
MINA HARKER’S JOURNAL
NOTE
ENDNOTES
INSPIRED BY DRACULA
COMMENTS & QUESTIONS
FOR FURTHER READING
FROM THE PAGES OF DRACULA
I read that every known superstition in the world is gathered into the horseshoe of the Carpathians, as if it were the centre of some sort of imaginative whirlpool; if so my stay may be very interesting. (Mem., I must ask the Count all about them.) (page 6)
When the Count saw my face, his eyes blazed with a sort of demoniac fury, and he suddenly made a grab at my throat. I drew away, and his hand touched the string of beads which held the crucifix. It made an instant change in him, for the fury passed so quickly that I could hardly believe that it was ever there. (page 31 )
But my very feelings changed to repulsion and terror when I saw the whole man slowly emerge from the window and begin to crawl down the castle wall over that dreadful abyss, face down, with his cloak spreading out around him like great wings. (page 39)
Then she paused, and I could hear the churning so
und of her tongue as it licked her teeth and lips, and could feel the hot breath on my neck. Then the skin of my throat began to tingle as one’s flesh does when the hand that is to tickle it approaches nearer—nearer. I could feel the soft, shivering touch of the lips on the supersensitive skin of my throat, and the hard dents of two sharp teeth, just touching and pausing there. I closed my eyes in a languorous ecstasy and waited—waited with beating heart. (page 44)
Between me and the moonlight flitted a great bat, coming and going in great, whirling circles. (page 105)
No man knows till he experiences it, what it is to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the veins of the woman he loves. (page 141)
“Faith: ‘that which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.’ ” (page 208)
“Madness were easy to bear compared with truth like this.” (page 209)
A brave man’s hand can speak for itself; it does not even need a woman’s love to hear its music. (page 254)
All was dark and silent, the black shadows thrown by the moonlight seeming full of a silent mystery of their own. Not a thing seemed to be stirring, but all to be grim and fixed as death or fate; so that a thin streak of white mist, that crept with almost imperceptible slowness across the grass towards the house, seemed to have a sentience and a vitality of its own. (page 275)
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BRAM STOKER
Abraham Stoker was born in Dublin on November 8, 1847. An essayist, mathematician, civil servant, critic, theater manager, and writer of one of the modern world’s most absorbing tales, Stoker lived during an era of great cultural transformation. Famine and decadence, tradition and revolution, emancipation and nostalgia—these are a few of the opposing forces that abounded in Stoker’s world and that thrust Great Britain and Europe out of the old world and into modernity.
Son of a conservative, Protestant civil service clerk and the third of seven children, Bram Stoker was a fragile youth who suffered from a life-threatening illness; he could not walk unaided until the age of seven. His early sickness was replaced by vigorous health as he became a young man; he competed in athletics at Trinity College and excelled in mathematics and the sciences. After graduation, it appeared that Bram would follow in his father’s footsteps: He took a civil service post at Dublin Castle, where his father worked. His position made him privy to Dublin’s most exclusive salons ; Oscar Wilde and his parents were intimate friends, and Bram vied with Oscar for the hand of the future Mrs. Florence Balcombe Stoker. During his seven years of civil service, Stoker cultivated his nascent literary career. He published theater reviews, short stories, and a political address; he also began a correspondence with the American poet Walt Whitman that lasted until the poet’s death.
Although Stoker wrote his first, much-admired book The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland (1879) on his civil-service profession and returned to Trinity to give talks on various topics, he ultimately chose to live a more artistic life in London. An 1876 reading of the poem “The Dream of Eugene Aram” by the actor Henry Irving profoundly affected Stoker; the two men became close friends, and Stoker worked as business manager for Irving’s Lyceum Theatre from 1878 until the actor’s death in 1905. As in his earlier life, during these years Stoker was involved in an impressive range of endeavors.
He devoted a great amount of energy and time to Irving, fathered his only child, Irving Noel Thornley Stoker, and published frequently. He also lectured on the subject of the United States, studied law, and was given a Bronze Medal by the Royal Society for attempting to save a suicide.
Stoker put his indelible mark on the centuries-old vampire myth with the publication and stage debut of Dracula in 1897. The novel caused a sensation—reactions were mixed and heated. Nevertheless, Dracula’s popularity has endured for more than a century. Stoker’s mother, Charlotte, perhaps praised Dracula most accurately when she said that no novel, apart from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, is comparable “in originality, or terror.”
Stoker continued to publish widely, although his other works failed to attain the immortality of Dracula. While on tour with the Lyceum company in 1905, he witnessed the death of his longtime colleague and friend, Henry Irving. The next year Stoker suffered the first of two strokes. With his wife and son at his bedside, Bram Stoker died on April 20, 1912.
THE WORLD OF BRAM STOKER AND DRACULA
1847 Abraham Stoker is born on November 8 in Dublin to Charlotte and Abraham Stoker. Nursed by his uncle William through a lengthy childhood illness, Bram is repeatedly bled to improve his condition. Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights are published.
1848 Revolutions take place in Paris, Vienna, Milan, Rome, and Venice.
1849 Bram’s brother Tom is born. Edgar Allan Poe dies.
1854 Bram’s brother George is born. Bram walks unaided for the first time. His illness ends and does not return for the rest of his relatively healthy life. Britain and France declare war on Russia. Tennyson’s “The Charge of the Light Brigade” is published. Oscar Wilde is born.
1855 Charlotte Brontë dies. Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass is published.
1856 Sigmund Freud is born.
1859 Stoker enters preparatory school, where he will study until 1863. Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species by Natural Selection and Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities are published. Arthur Conan Doyle is born.
1863 Stoker enters Trinity College in Dublin, where he studies science and mathematics, and plays competitive sports.
1865 The American Civil War ends. Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is published. William Butler Yeats is born.
1867 Stoker attends a performance of Richard Sheridan’s The Rivals, starring Henry Irving, at the Theatre Royal in Dublin.
1868 After graduating with honors and an M.A. degree in mathematics from Trinity College, Stoker enters the civil service at Dublin Castle.
1871 Stoker’s first theater review for the Dublin Evening Mail is published anonymously. Bram’s mother, father, and two sisters move to the continent. Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass and the first installment of George Eliot’s Middlemarch are published.
1872 Stoker delivers an address entitled “The Necessity for Political Honesty”; later published, it is Stoker’s first signed work.
1875 Three stories by Stoker appear in the weekly publication The Shamrock.
1876 Stoker’s father dies in Naples. Stoker meets the actor Henry Irving and is greatly moved by Irving’s reading of the poem “The Dream of Eugene Aram.”
1877 Stoker resigns from his position as drama critic to write a book for the clerks of the petty sessions.
1878 Stoker marries Florence Balcombe and becomes business manager of Henry Irving’s Lyceum Theatre.
1879 Stoker’s first book, The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland, is published.
1882 Stoker is awarded the Bronze Medal from the Royal Humane Society for endeavoring to prevent a suicide. Virginia Woolf and James Joyce are born. Charles Darwin dies.
1886 Stoker studies law, and publishes an essay on the United States entitled “A Glimpse of America.”
1888 Jack the Ripper causes fear to spread through London. T. S. Eliot is born.