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Lucy's suitors: Arthur Holmwood heir of Lord Godalming and the winner in the contest to win Lucy's hand; Quincey P. Morris an American from Texas; John Seward a doctor in charge of a nearby lunatic asylum. When Lucy becomes ill and does not respond to treatment, John sends for his former mentor Dr. Van Helsing in hopes that a cure can be found for her. |
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Mina Harker (née Murray) fiancée and later wife of Jonathan, she is also a close friend of Lucy's. After Lucy's death, Mina becomes the object of Dracula's attention. He wants her for his bride. But the scheme is interrupted by Dr. Abraham Van Helsing. Still, Mina has drunk some of Dracula's blood and now has a psychic link to him. This link is used to track him when he flees. |
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Dr. Abraham Van Helsing An expert in obscure diseases sent for from Amsterdam by John Seward. Van Helsing becomes suspicious of what lies behind Lucy's illness but is unable to save her. It is Van Helsing who then convinces the other men Harker and Lucy's suitors that a vampire is at work and must be hunted down and destroyed. |
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Renfield a patient in Dr. Seward's asylum. Renfield practices his own brand of entomology: after quietly studying flies and spiders, he eats them. For a time he becomes the human servant of Dracula. Element(s): Dracula (of course). |
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246. Stoker, Bram, and editor Leonard Wolf. The Essential Dracula: The Definitive Edition of Bram Stoker's Classic Novel. New York: Plume, 1993. Paperback. |
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To enhance the atmosphere of this classic horror story, extensive notes, arranged close to the pertinent text, give glimpses into late nineteenth-century Europe as well as expound on the vampire myth. Also included is the deleted first chapter of the original novel. It is often anthologized as the short story "Dracula's Guest." A bibliography of sources used by the editor in preparation of this book plus a brief filmography is included. |
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247. Strieber, Whitley. The Hunger. New York: William Morrow, 1981. Hardcover. (New York: Pocket Books, 1982. Paperback.) |
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Miriam Blaylock is a vampire, one of a race that was never human. Throughout her long life she has had companions humans whom she transformed so that she would have someone with which to share her |
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