Dracula (novel)

Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. It is a part of the Castlevania timeline and is the first appearance of the vampire Count Dracula (although his first chronological appearance is in Castlevania: Lament of Innocence). It was published 89 years before the first Castlevania game was released and was retroactively added to the games' timeline.

In the context of the Castlevania series, Dracula takes place between Castlevania 64 and Bloodlines. In the late 19th century, English solicitor Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to finalise a real estate transaction with Count Dracula. Dracula is purchasing property in London in order to begin a systematic takeover of the British Empire. Dracula travels to England and feeds on the blood of young Lucy Westenra. Despite the efforts of her three suitors, Arthur Holmwood, Quincy Morris and John Seward, and the Dutch doctor Abraham Van Helsing, Lucy dies and rises as a vampire. She is destroyed and Dracula turns his attentions to her friend, Mina, the wife of Harker (who has escaped from Dracula's castle and married her in Transylvania). Dracula is pursued back to the castle and is stabbed by Quincy, who dies in the final showdown. The Harkers name their son Quincy in his memory.