This malevolent beautiful vampire awakens from her marble bier to conjure a snowstorm before being struck by lightning and returning to her eternal prison. The short story climaxes in an old graveyard, where the Englishman encounters a sleeping female vampire called Countess Dolingen in a marble tomb with a large iron stake driven into it. Along the way, he feels that he is being watched by a tall and thin stranger. It is Walpurgis Night and the young Englishman foolishly leaves his hotel, in spite of the coachman's warnings, and wanders through a dense forest alone. In "Dracula's Guest", the narrative follows an unnamed Englishman traveller as he wanders around Munich before leaving for Transylvania. Narrative Short story Ĭover of Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories, a collection of short stories authored by Bram Stoker If it be so, then was he no common man: for in that time, and for centuries after, he was spoken of as the cleverest and the most cunning, as well as the bravest of the sons of the land beyond the forest." Dead and buried in a great tomb in the chapel of his castle, Dracula returns from death as a vampire and lives for several centuries in his castle with three terrifyingly beautiful female vampires beside him. According to his nemesis Abraham Van Helsing, "He must indeed have been that Voivode Dracula who won his name against the Turk, over the great river on the very frontier of Turkey-land. Taking up arms, as befitting his rank and status as a voivode, he led troops against the Turks across the Danube. ĭracula studied the black arts at the academy of Scholomance in the Carpathian Mountains, overlooking the town of Sibiu (also known as Hermannstadt) and has a deep knowledge of alchemy and magic. there was no branch of knowledge of his time that he did not essay. He had a mighty brain, a learning beyond compare, and a heart that knew no fear and no remorse.
Which latter was the highest development of the scientific knowledge of his time.
( November 2020)ĭetails of his early life are undisclosed, but it is mentioned that Further details may exist on the talk page. Please expand the article to include this information.
This article is missing information about Dracula's backstory outlined in the 2018 prequel novel Dracul, written by Dacre Stoker from Bram Stoker's manuscripts.
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