Anonymous reviewed on 12/3/2007

Thanks to movies, DRACULA has many stories. It is a story of good and evil.

This original has very little of Dracula himself; the story is told entirely through journals of Jonathan and Mina Murray-Harker, Dr. Seward, and a few others. In fact, after Jonathan's opening entries from the Carpathians, most of the tension arises because Mina, Lucy, and Dr. Seward in London are totally, and at times frustratingly, unaware of Dracula. A common theme in horror stories.

Dracula himself is evil, ancient, animalistic, primitive, a supernatural creature. He uses the powers of nature and animals (wolves, bats, rats.)

The entire good side consists of five brave intellectual and rational men (two doctors, a lawyer, an English lord, and a Texan with lots of common sense) and one modern empowered woman (an excellent typist who also knows shorthand.) They are all rational, practical, scientific minded, work hard, and employ detective like deduction. They use the powers of man, church and the kitchen (libraries, transcripts, legal papers, crosses and garlic) to find and finally defeat Dracula.

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