The New Annotated Dracula characters

Appears from the start

A young English solicitor sent to Transylvania to help Count Dracula complete the purchase of an estate near London. Conscientious and curious, he keeps a detailed journal of his difficult journey and is initially determined to be a courteous guest despite the unsettling isolation of Dracula's castle.

Appears from the start

A Transylvanian nobleman whose invitation brings Jonathan Harker to a remote castle. He welcomes the solicitor with old-fashioned courtesy, unusual physical strength, and an insistence that no servants are present.

First appears in chapter 5

Jonathan Harker's fiancée, a practical young woman working as an assistant schoolmistress. She studies shorthand so that she can support Jonathan professionally and exchanges affectionate letters with her closest friend, Lucy Westenra.

First appears in chapter 5

Mina's warm and sociable friend, whose beauty and openness attract three proposals on the same day. She accepts Arthur Holmwood while remaining fond of the two men she turns down.

First appears in chapter 5

A physician who runs a private asylum and records unusual cases on a phonograph. One of Lucy Westenra's unsuccessful suitors, he respects her choice and stays close to Arthur Holmwood and Quincey Morris.

Also known as Art

First appears in chapter 5

Lucy Westenra's chosen fiancé and the son of Lord Godalming. He is a close friend of John Seward and Quincey Morris, the other two men who proposed to Lucy, and bears them no resentment over their shared affection for her.

First appears in chapter 5

An American adventurer from Texas and one of Lucy Westenra's three suitors. Direct, generous, and loyal, he accepts her refusal gracefully and preserves his friendship with both Arthur Holmwood and John Seward.

First appears in chapter 5

A patient in Dr. Seward's asylum whose moods and strange compulsions make him the doctor's most absorbing case. He catches and consumes living creatures according to a private calculation about accumulating life, while showing flashes of education and self-command.

First appears in chapter 6

An elderly Whitby resident whom Mina and Lucy meet beside the churchyard. Skeptical of local legends and blunt about death, he nevertheless becomes their regular companion during their stay by the sea.

First appears in chapter 8

Lucy's widowed mother, whose serious heart condition has been concealed from her daughter to spare her distress. She joins Lucy at Whitby and later relies on the younger woman's friends and doctors when Lucy becomes ill.

First appears in chapter 9

Dr. Seward's former teacher, a widely experienced Dutch physician whom Seward asks to examine Lucy's mysterious illness. Energetic, compassionate, and intellectually adventurous, he has Seward's confidence when ordinary diagnosis offers no answer.