Dracula

• What happens in chapter 1?

  Jonathan Harker arrives in Bistritz to talk to the count about the sale of a house in london.
• What happens in chapter 1?

  • Jonathan Harker arrives in Bistritz to talk to the count about the sale of a house in london.
  • He is warned by the locals that it is an 'evil date', and he is given a crucifix.
  • On his way to the castle in a carriage he is surrounded by vicious nature such as wolves and blue flames
• What happens in chapter 2?

  • Harker describes the Counts appearance and dines with him
  • Next day, Dracula excuses himself until in the evening, they discuss evil spirits, the London house, and then leave at daybreak.
  • Next day, Harker cuts himself shaving, Dracula lunges for his throat, stops after touching the beads holding his crucifix, and throws Harker's mirror out a window.
  • Harker realizes Dracula never eats or drinks and had no reflection on his shaving mirror, no mirrors in the castle, most doors are locked, and he is a prisoner.
• What happens in chapter 3?

  • Dracula talks about his family's glories
  • He grills Harker about English life and law, convinces him to write his fiancée, Mina, about staying for one more month, and warns him to sleep only in his room.
  • Harker hangs the crucifix above his bed, sees Dracula crawling down a castle wall.
  • Harker falls asleep in another room, is visited by three seductive women with sharp teeth.
  • One of them touches Harker's neck, Dracula appears, gives them a bag with kid in it, and run off.
• What happens in chapter 4?

  • Dracula asks Harker to write three post-dated letters saying he is going home.
  • Harker asks a Gypsy to send letters for him, but Dracula intercepts them.
  • Harker sees large boxes and Dracula slithering down a wall wearing his clothes.
  • Later, a woman is devoured by wolves outside.
  • Harker finds Dracula lying in a box of earth in a tunnel.
  • Dracula allows Harker to leave, but he stays after encountering wolves outside the front door.
  • Harker finds Dracula in his box, looking younger and with blood on his mouth, tries to kill him, Harker plans his escape.
• What happens in chapter 5?

  • Mina writes her friend Lucy Westenra that her fiancé, Harker, has written saying he is on his way home.
  • Lucy writes Mina that she has accepted the proposal of Arthur Holmwood, a nobleman, instead of Dr. John Seward, director of lunatic asylum in London, and Quincey Morris, a rich American.
  • On a phonograph entry, Dr. Seward admits his unhappiness at Lucy's rejection, and describes his patient Renfield.
  • Morris writes a congratulatory letter to Holmwood.
• What happens in chapter 6?

  • In journal entry, Mina describes visiting with Lucy the ruined abbey in Whitby, befriending Mr. Swales, an old sailor, listening to Lucy's wedding plans, noting she hadn't heard from Harker for a month.
  • Later, Mina expresses concern over Harker and Lucy as she begun to sleepwalk. She runs into Mr. Swales, who tells her he senses his death is not far off, and they see a ship drifting offshore.
  • Dr. Seward reports that Renfield eats living creatures.
• What happens in chapter 7?

  • Newspaper clippings inform the ship Demeter ran aground during a storm, with no crew, its captain dead, and a cargo of large wooden boxes. A huge dog had leapt from it and disappeared.
  • The captain's log informs that after they left Russia, crew members disappeared, first jumped overboard after fighting an intruder, the captain tied himself and his crucifix to the wheel and stay with his ship to the end.
  • Mina reports that Mr. Swales was found dead with a broken neck and a horrified look on his face and that, on the day of the captain's funeral, Lucy was restless.
• What happens in chapter 8?

  • August 11, Lucy sleepwalks, Mina finds her in a churchyard next to a dark figure and with two red punctures on her neck.
  • The following days, Mina sees a bat outside Lucy's window, a dark figure with red eyes in the churchyard, and Lucy leaning outside her window near a large bird.
  • A solicitor orders boxes from the boat be delivered to Carfax.
  • Harker appears in a Hungarian hospital with brain fever, Mina prepares to meet him.
  • Dr. Seward finds Renfield by the Carfax chapel door, calling his master and promising obedience.
• What happens in chapter 9?

  • Mina finds Harker has changed, can't remember his time in Transylvania, and is delirious.
  • Harker gives Mina his diary, asking her not to tell him its content unless duty requires. They marry, and Mina seals the diary.
  • Renfield escapes again to Carfax. When Seward finds him, Renfield calms down after seeing a big bat.
  • Lucy writes about nightmares and scratching at her window.
  • Per Holmwood's request, Seward and Van Helsing examine Lucy, but can't identify her problem and she worsens.
• What happens in chapter 10?

  • Van Helsing transfuses Holmwood's blood into Lucy, notices the punctures on her neck, and goes to Amsterdam for some books and objects.
  • Seward watches Lucy that night, she wakes restored next day.
  • The next night, Seward falls asleep, and Lucy is worse the next morning.
  • Seward transfuses his own blood into her. That afternoon, Van Helsing orders Lucy to wear a necklace of garlic flowers
• What happens in chapter 11?

  • Van Helsing transfuses his own blood into Lucy, and she improves.
  • Later, Renfield cuts Seward's wrist and licks up his blood.
  • A telegram from Van Helsing, urging Seward to stay with Lucy, is delayed.
  • A wolf escapes the zoo and breaks the window in Lucy's room.
  • Lucy's mother removes the garlic wreath from her neck and dies. Lucy loses consciousness.
  • Their maids enter the room and, horrified by the sight, drink some drugged wine and pass out. Lucy hides her last diary entry in her bodice.
• What happens in chapter 12?

  • Doctors find Lucy worse, but Morris agrees to transfuse blood to her.
  • Mina writes Lucy that she married Harker and they have returned to England.
  • Renfield escapes and attacks men carrying boxes from Carfax.
  • Seward notices a bat hovering near Lucy's window at night. The wounds on her neck disappear, but the doctors bring Holmwood to say good-bye to her.
  • Lucy begs him for a kiss, but Van Helsing instructs him to kiss her only on the forehead. Lucy dies and recovers her beauty.
• What happens in chapter 13?

  • Before Lucy's funeral, Van Helsing covers her body with garlic flowers and her mouth with a crucifix, but someone steals the latter.
  • He asks Holmwood for Lucy's personal papers in search of clues.
  • Mina and Harker see a man he believes to be Dracula.
  • Harker slips into a deep sleep and remembers nothing afterward, so Mina decides to read his diary.
  • That night, Mina hears about Lucy's death. A newspaper reports children are being abducted by a strange woman near where Lucy was buried and returned home with wounds on their necks.
• What happens in chapter 14?

  • Mina gives Van Helsing her diary and Harker's diary.
  • Jonathan remembers his time in Transylvania and starts a new diary.
  • Renfield starts eating living creatures again.
  • Van Helsing shows the news about the abducted children to Seward and concludes the woman must be Lucy.
• What happens in chapter 15?

  • Van Helsing and Seward visit an abducted child and discover the marks on his neck are identical to Lucy's.
  • They visit Lucy's tomb, find it empty, and near dawn, find a child lying nearby.
  • Leaving the child in safety, they go back to Lucy's tomb and find her there, looking beautiful.
  • They meet Holmwood and Morris, and Van Helsing explains they must decapitate Lucy, fill her mouth with garlic, and drive a stake through her heart.
• What happens in chapter 16?

  • That night, the men go to Lucy's grave, find it empty, and Van Helsing seals the tomb door with Communion wafers.
  • When Lucy reappears, carrying a child, the men surround her. She drops the child and lures Holmwood to her. Van Helsing leaps between them, brandishes a crucifix, removes the wafers, and Lucy slips through the tomb door.
  • The next evening, Holmwood returns and hammers a stake through Lucy's heart.
• What happens in chapter 17?

  • Van Helsing pushes Mina and Harker come to the asylum. Mina transcribes Seward's diary.
  • Seward reads Harker's diary and realizes Dracula is his neighbor and connected to Renfield's behavior.
  • Harker investigates and discovers that all fifty boxes of earth were delivered to Carfax, but that some might have been moved elsewhere.
  • Morris and Holmwood arrive at the asylum, Mina gives them the diaries and letters to read
• What happens in chapter 18?

  • Mina visits Renfield and finds him polite and rational.
  • Van Helsing compliments Mina for her work on Seward's diary but keeps her away from what they are going to do next.
  • Van Helsing tells the entire company about the legend of the undead.
  • The men visit Renfield, and he pleads to be released, which Seward denies.
• What happens in chapter 19?

  • The men go to Carfax, but only find some of the boxes.
  • Mina, increasingly anxious, reports that the previous night, she woke up after hearing strange sounds from Renfield's room, found her window open, saw a white mist creeping toward the asylum, slept fitfully, and woke up to find a cloud in her room and a white face bending over her.
• What happens in chapter 20?

  • Harker discovers that the missing boxes are in two other houses in London.
  • Seward questions Renfield about the souls of the lives he plans to eat.
  • The next evening, asylum attendants hear a scream and find Renfield lying in his cell, covered in blood.
• What happens in chapter 21?

  • Dying, Renfield admits that Dracula often visited him and Mina. He had tried to seize Dracula, but he attacked him and slipped into the asylum.
  • The men rush to the Harkers' room and find Jonathan unconscious and Mina drinking from a wound on Dracula's breast.
  • Van Helsing holds up a wafer and Dracula leaves. Morris chases him and sees a bat flying away from Reinfeld's window but not toward Carfax.
  • Mina tells them how Dracula threatened to kill Jonathan if she made a sound, drank blood from her throat, and forced her to drink his blood.
• What happens in chapter 22?

  • Before escaping the asylum, Dracula kills Renfield.
  • The men go to Carfax the next day and put wafers in Dracula's boxes to make them unfit for his living.
  • Van Helsing seals Mina's room with wafers and touches her forehead with one, burning her skin. Mina breaks down and calls herself unclean.
  • The men go to the houses in London to seal the other boxes and discover that one is missing.
• What happens in chapter 23?

  • Mina sends the men a message saying Dracula has left Carfax.
  • The men try to ambush Dracula at one of the houses, but he escapes.
  • Van Helsing hypnotizes Mina and finds out that Dracula is fleeing England by sea.
• What happens in chapter 24?

  • The men discover that Dracula is sailing back to Varna and decide to follow him there.
  • Mina insists on accompanying them to aid with her telepathic connection to Dracula.
• What happens in chapter 25?

  • Before departing, Mina asks the group to destroy her if she transforms into a vampire.
  • In Varna, the group hears that Dracula's ship has docked in Galatz instead, and they decide to go there.
• What happens in chapter 26?

  • When the group reaches Galatz, Dracula's box had been picked up.
  • Mina investigates possible routes Dracula could take to return to his castle, and the group splits into three:
  • Holmwood and Harker take a steamboat;
  • Seward and Morris travel across the countryside on horseback;
  • Mina and Van Helsing take a train to Veresti and a carriage to the castle.
• What happens in chapter 27?

  • Van Helsing encircles Mina with wafers.
  • The three female vampires tempt him, but destroys them, and seals Dracula's tomb and the castle door with wafers.
  • On the way back, they run into a cart driven by Gypsies and loaded with a box of earth.
  • Seward, Morris, Harker, and Holmwood intercept the cart, open the box, and destroy Dracula.
  • Morris, fatally wounded, points out the scar has vanished from Mina's forehead and dies.
  • Years later, Harker writes that he and Mina now have a son named Quincey, and that Seward and Holmwood are happily married.