Articles related to the IrishGothichorror novelDracula (1897) byBram Stoker and its adaptations. The narrative isrelated through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles. It has no singleprotagonist and opens with solicitorJonathan Harker taking a business trip to stay at the castle of aTransylvanian nobleman,Count Dracula. Harker flees after learning that Dracula is avampire, and the Count moves toEngland and plagues the seaside town ofWhitby. A small group, led byAbraham Van Helsing, hunts and kills him. The novel was mostly written in the 1890s, and Stoker produced over a hundred pages of notes, drawing extensively fromfolklore andhistory. Scholars have suggested various figures as the inspiration for Dracula, including theWallachian princeVlad the Impaler and the CountessElizabeth Báthory, but recent scholarship suggests otherwise.
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