Classic Thrillers characters

Appears from the start

An English explorer writing to his sister from an Arctic expedition. His ship finds Victor Frankenstein exhausted on the ice, and Walton records the stranger's history while facing his own dangerous ambition.

Appears from the start

A young Genevan raised in a close and prosperous family. Fascinated first by obsolete alchemists and then by modern science, he goes to the University of Ingolstadt with an intense desire to discover the basis of life.

Appears from the start

Victor's adopted cousin and intended future wife, brought into the Frankenstein household as a child. Affectionate, perceptive, and devoted to the family, she remains in Geneva while Victor studies abroad.

First appears in chapter 2

Victor's closest boyhood friend, imaginative and humane where Victor is obsessive. He follows Victor to Ingolstadt and nurses him through a severe collapse.

Also known as The Creature, The Monster

First appears in chapter 5

The living being assembled and animated by Victor after years of secret study. Enormous and physically powerful, he reaches toward his creator at his first awakening, but Victor recoils from his appearance and abandons him.

First appears in chapter 7

A trusted young woman in the Frankenstein household who is especially attached to Victor's family. After William's death, circumstantial evidence places her under suspicion despite the family's belief in her innocence.

First appears in chapter 12

An elderly blind exile living with his son and daughter in poverty. His gentle manner and inability to judge by appearance make him the person Victor's creation hopes will hear him fairly.

First appears in chapter 12

De Lacey's son, living in exile with his father and sister. The hidden creation learns language and human relationships by observing Felix teach Safie and care for the household.

First appears in chapter 13

A young woman who travels to join Felix after their earlier separation. As Felix teaches her French, the concealed creation follows the same lessons and learns about history and society.

First appears in chapter 25

A newly qualified English solicitor traveling to Transylvania to complete Count Dracula's purchase of an estate near London. Methodical and initially eager to please his client, he becomes alarmed by the castle's isolation and his host's complete control.

First appears in chapter 25

A Transylvanian nobleman who receives Jonathan at his remote castle. Courtly and well informed about England, he is the only apparent resident and controls every aspect of his guest's stay.

First appears in chapter 29

Jonathan's fiancée, a practical young schoolmistress who practices shorthand and typing so she can assist him. She corresponds closely with Lucy Westenra while waiting for news of Jonathan's journey.

First appears in chapter 29

Mina's affectionate friend, admired by three suitors and engaged to Arthur Holmwood. Cheerful and open with Mina, she begins sleepwalking during their stay at Whitby.

Also known as Dr. Seward

First appears in chapter 29

A physician who directs a private asylum and records his observations on a phonograph. After Lucy declines his proposal, he concentrates on a disturbed patient named Renfield.

First appears in chapter 29

Lucy's chosen fiancé, an English gentleman and the son of Lord Godalming. He remains close friends with her other suitors, Seward and Quincey Morris.

First appears in chapter 29

An American adventurer and one of Lucy's three suitors. He accepts her rejection honorably and preserves his friendship with Arthur and Seward.

First appears in chapter 29

A patient in Seward's asylum whose consuming interest in flies, spiders, birds, and other living creatures suggests a private system behind his apparent madness.

First appears in chapter 33

Seward's former teacher, summoned from Amsterdam when Lucy's unexplained weakness defeats ordinary treatment. Learned, forceful, and open to possibilities his companions dismiss, he directs her care.