{ "schemaVersion": 1, "slug": "dracula", "title": "Dracula", "author": "Bram Stoker", "language": "English", "spoilers": true, "characters": [ { "name": "Jonathan Harker", "aliases": [ "Jonathan Harker", "Mr. Harker", "Harker" ], "description": "An English solicitor and Mina’s husband who escaped Dracula’s castle. He helps lead the hunt for Dracula and, with Quincey Morris, destroys him; Jonathan survives the final confrontation." }, { "name": "Mina Murray", "aliases": [ "Mina", "Wilhelmina Murray", "Mina Harker", "Wilhelmina Harker", "Mrs. Harker" ], "description": "Jonathan’s wife, an assistant schoolmistress who keeps the group’s records. Dracula’s attack leaves her under his influence, but she retains her soul, helps Van Helsing follow Dracula, and is freed from the curse when Dracula is destroyed." }, { "name": "Count Dracula", "aliases": [ "Dracula", "the Count", "the Master", "the man himself", "Count de Ville", "Mr. de Ville" ], "description": "A Transylvanian nobleman and vampire who tried to establish himself in London. Jonathan and Quincey destroy him by stabbing his heart and cutting his throat before sunset, and his body crumbles to dust." }, { "name": "Golden Krone landlady", "aliases": [ "the old lady", "the elderly woman" ], "description": "The elderly woman who receives Harker at the Golden Krone Hotel in Bistritz. Fearing for his safety, she warns him about St. George’s Eve and gives him a crucifix." }, { "name": "Golden Krone landlord", "aliases": [ "the elderly man", "Harker’s landlord" ], "description": "The hotelkeeper in Bistritz who arranges Harker’s coach place on Count Dracula’s instructions and refuses to discuss the Count." }, { "name": "Diligence driver", "aliases": [ "the coach driver", "the driver" ], "description": "The driver who takes Harker from Bistritz toward the Borgo Pass." }, { "name": "Fellow passenger", "aliases": [ "Harker’s fellow passenger" ], "description": "An unnamed passenger on the diligence who explains to Harker that the travelers’ gestures ward off the evil eye." }, { "name": "Dracula’s coachman", "aliases": [ "the strange driver", "the calèche driver" ], "description": "A tall, powerful man who collects Harker at the Borgo Pass and drives him to the castle. Harker suspects he is Dracula in disguise." }, { "name": "Peter Hawkins", "aliases": [ "Mr. Hawkins", "the old man" ], "description": "Harker’s employer, a solicitor in Exeter who entrusted him with business for Dracula. He welcomes Jonathan and Mina, makes Jonathan a partner, leaves them his estate, and dies suddenly." }, { "name": "Samuel F. Billington", "aliases": [ "Mr. S. F. Billington" ], "description": "A Whitby solicitor whose firm receives the Demeter’s consignment of boxes and arranges their delivery to Carfax." }, { "name": "Herr Leutner", "aliases": [], "description": "A person in Varna to whom Dracula addresses a letter; the text gives no further information about him." }, { "name": "Three vampire women", "aliases": [ "the three women", "the weird sisters", "the three ghostly women" ], "description": "Three supernatural women living in Dracula’s castle who try to feed on Harker and later invite Mina to join them. Van Helsing destroys them, freeing their souls." }, { "name": "Fair vampire woman", "aliases": [ "the fair girl", "the fair woman" ], "description": "The blonde, blue-eyed member of the three vampire women who approaches Harker and is driven back by Dracula. Van Helsing later finds and destroys her in her tomb." }, { "name": "Dark vampire woman", "aliases": [ "one of the dark women" ], "description": "One of the two dark-haired vampire women in Dracula’s castle who urge the fair woman to approach Harker. Van Helsing later finds and destroys her in her tomb." }, { "name": "Second dark vampire woman", "aliases": [ "the other dark woman" ], "description": "One of the two dark-haired vampire women in Dracula’s castle who urge the fair woman to approach Harker. Van Helsing later finds and destroys her in her tomb." }, { "name": "Szgany leader", "aliases": [ "the hetman of the Szgany" ], "description": "The leader of the Szgany encamped at Dracula’s castle. He leads the party transporting Dracula’s final earth-box and directs his men to resist the pursuers." }, { "name": "Szgany", "aliases": [ "gipsies" ], "description": "A group encamped at Dracula’s castle who carry letters for Harker, unload boxes of earth, and later transport Dracula’s last box. They flee after Dracula is destroyed." }, { "name": "Slovak carters", "aliases": [ "the Slovaks" ], "description": "The men who drive the leiter-wagons to Dracula’s castle and unload the large boxes of earth." }, { "name": "Woman seeking her child", "aliases": [ "the distressed woman" ], "description": "An unnamed woman who comes to Dracula’s castle crying, “Monster, give me my child!” Dracula summons wolves, which kill her." }, { "name": "Lucy Westenra", "aliases": [ "Lucy" ], "description": "Mina’s close friend and Arthur Holmwood’s fiancée. Dracula’s attacks kill her and turn her into an Un-Dead vampire who preys on children, until Arthur destroys the vampire and frees her soul." }, { "name": "Arthur Holmwood", "aliases": [ "Arthur", "Art", "Mr. Holmwood", "the Hon. Arthur Holmwood", "Lord Godalming" ], "description": "Lucy Westenra’s fiancé and the only son of Lord Godalming; he inherits Lucy’s mother’s estate and succeeds to his father’s title. With Van Helsing’s help, he frees Lucy’s soul, then joins the effort to destroy Dracula." }, { "name": "Dr. John Seward", "aliases": [ "John Seward", "Jack Seward", "Dr. Seward" ], "description": "A doctor who runs a lunatic asylum and keeps a phonograph diary. He loved Lucy, who declined his proposal, and joins Van Helsing, Arthur, and Quincey in investigating Dracula; he later marries." }, { "name": "Quincey P. Morris", "aliases": [ "Quincey Morris", "Mr. Morris" ], "description": "An American from Texas and a friend of Arthur Holmwood and John Seward. He loved Lucy and gave her a blood transfusion; he helps destroy Dracula but dies from wounds received in the fight." }, { "name": "R. M. Renfield", "aliases": [ "Renfield", "the zoöphagous maniac", "the homicidal maniac", "the poor mad friend", "our man", "the patient" ], "description": "A patient in Seward’s asylum who collects and eats living creatures, treating them as a source of life. Fixated on Dracula, he resists the Count’s attempt to drain Mina and is fatally injured by Dracula." }, { "name": "Whitby old man", "aliases": [ "Mr. Swales", "Swales" ], "description": "An elderly former sailor Mina meets in Whitby’s churchyard. A sceptic with a forceful manner, he later apologizes for his remarks about the dead and is found dead with a look of fear." }, { "name": "Whitby old man’s granddaughter", "aliases": [ "the old man’s granddaughter" ], "description": "The granddaughter of Mr. Swales, who expects him home for tea." }, { "name": "Edward Spencelagh", "aliases": [], "description": "A master mariner named on a Whitby tombstone as having been murdered by pirates off the coast of Andres. Mr. Swales says his body was never brought home." }, { "name": "Braithwaite Lowrey", "aliases": [], "description": "A man named on a Whitby tombstone; Mr. Swales says he was lost at sea aboard the Lively in 1820." }, { "name": "Andrew Woodhouse", "aliases": [], "description": "A man named on a Whitby tombstone; Mr. Swales says he drowned in Greenland waters in 1777." }, { "name": "John Paxton", "aliases": [], "description": "A man named on a Whitby tombstone; Mr. Swales says he drowned off Cape Farewell in 1778." }, { "name": "John Rawlings", "aliases": [ "old John Rawlings" ], "description": "A man named on a Whitby tombstone; Mr. Swales says he drowned in the Gulf of Finland in 1850." }, { "name": "George Canon", "aliases": [ "Geordie" ], "description": "A man commemorated on a tombstone as having fallen from the rocks at Kettleness. Mr. Swales claims he died by suicide to prevent his mother from collecting insurance on his life." }, { "name": "Lucy’s mother", "aliases": [ "Mrs. Westenra" ], "description": "Lucy’s mother, who has a dangerously weak heart. Unaware of the cause of Lucy’s illness, she removes the protective garlic flowers and dies of fright when a wolf enters Lucy’s room." }, { "name": "Lucy’s father", "aliases": [ "Mr. Westenra" ], "description": "Lucy’s deceased father, mentioned by Mrs. Westenra as having also sleepwalked and gone outside at night." }, { "name": "Lord Godalming", "aliases": [ "Arthur’s father" ], "description": "Arthur Holmwood’s seriously ill father, whose condition keeps Arthur from being with Lucy. He dies during Lucy’s final illness." }, { "name": "Coastguard", "aliases": [ "the coastguard on duty" ], "description": "A Whitby coastguard who watches the strange schooner during the storm and is first to board it after it reaches the harbour." }, { "name": "Dailygraph correspondent", "aliases": [ "your correspondent" ], "description": "The unnamed newspaper correspondent who reports the Demeter’s arrival in Whitby, the dead captain, and the ship’s log." }, { "name": "The dead captain of the Demeter", "aliases": [ "the captain", "the dead steersman" ], "description": "The Demeter’s captain, who records the crew’s disappearances and the strange presence aboard. He ties himself to the wheel with a crucifix and beads and dies at his post; Whitby buries him as a hero." }, { "name": "The Demeter’s first mate", "aliases": [ "the mate" ], "description": "The Demeter’s Roumanian first mate, who dismisses the crew’s fears before becoming convinced a supernatural presence is aboard. He throws himself into the sea during the voyage." }, { "name": "Petrofsky", "aliases": [], "description": "A crewman aboard the Demeter who disappears during the voyage." }, { "name": "Abramoff", "aliases": [], "description": "A crewman aboard the Demeter who relieves Petrofsky on watch before Petrofsky disappears." }, { "name": "Olgaren", "aliases": [], "description": "A crewman aboard the Demeter who tells the captain he saw a strange, tall, thin man aboard the ship." }, { "name": "Demeter’s second mate", "aliases": [ "the second mate" ], "description": "An unnamed officer aboard the Demeter who volunteers to steer and keep watch so the exhausted crew can sleep. He later disappears." }, { "name": "Demeter’s crew", "aliases": [ "the hands" ], "description": "The Demeter’s crew, whose members disappear one by one during the voyage from Varna to Whitby." }, { "name": "Russian consul", "aliases": [ "the consul" ], "description": "The Russian consul who acts for the Demeter’s charter-party and formally takes possession of the ship." }, { "name": "Surgeon J. M. Caffyn", "aliases": [ "J. M. Caffyn" ], "description": "A doctor of 33 East Elliot Place who examines the Demeter’s dead captain and estimates that he had been dead for about two days." }, { "name": "Sister Agatha", "aliases": [ "the good Sister" ], "description": "A nurse at the Hospital of St. Joseph and Ste. Mary in Buda-Pesth who cares for Jonathan during his brain fever. She writes to Mina and helps arrange Mina and Jonathan’s wedding." }, { "name": "Hospital chaplain", "aliases": [ "the chaplain of the English mission church" ], "description": "The unnamed chaplain at the English mission church in Buda-Pesth who performs Jonathan and Mina’s wedding." }, { "name": "Asylum attendant", "aliases": [ "the attendant" ], "description": "An unnamed attendant at Seward’s asylum who observes Renfield, reports his escapes, and helps Seward pursue and recapture him." }, { "name": "Lucy’s dog", "aliases": [ "the dog" ], "description": "A quiet dog that becomes terrified and howls during the Demeter captain’s funeral, refusing to approach its master near the churchyard seat." }, { "name": "The great dog from the Demeter", "aliases": [ "the immense dog", "the strange dog" ], "description": "A fierce dog that leaps from the Demeter onto the shore after the schooner crashes at Tate Hill Pier and disappears into the darkness." }, { "name": "Coal merchant’s mastiff", "aliases": [ "the half-bred mastiff" ], "description": "A large dog belonging to a coal merchant near Tate Hill Pier, found dead after a fight with a savage opponent." }, { "name": "Coastguard’s dog", "aliases": [ "the dog belonging to a man who looked for the boats" ], "description": "A dog that accompanies a quiet man who often comes to look for the boats. During the captain’s funeral it becomes agitated near the churchyard seat and cowers in terror on a tombstone." }, { "name": "Lucy’s young curate", "aliases": [ "the young curate" ], "description": "An unnamed curate who visits the Westenras’ house and stays for supper despite Mina and Lucy’s fatigue." }, { "name": "Professor Abraham Van Helsing", "aliases": [ "Abraham Van Helsing", "Van Helsing", "the Professor" ], "description": "An Amsterdam physician, philosopher, and specialist in obscure diseases, and Seward’s former teacher and friend. He leads the campaign against Dracula, protects Mina with a sacred circle, destroys the vampire women at the castle, and records the final events for Seward." }, { "name": "Thomas Bilder", "aliases": [ "Mr. Bilder", "the keeper" ], "description": "The keeper of the wolf section at the Zoological Gardens. He recounts the escape and return of Bersicker and describes a strange, tall, thin man with red eyes who visited the wolves." }, { "name": "Mrs. Thomas Bilder", "aliases": [ "Mrs. Tom", "the old lady", "Bilder’s wife" ], "description": "Thomas Bilder’s hospitable wife, who lives with him in the Zoological Gardens enclosure and joins in his account of the escaped wolf." }, { "name": "The Pall Mall Gazette interviewer", "aliases": [ "the interviewer", "the correspondent" ], "description": "An unnamed newspaper reporter who interviews Thomas Bilder about the wolf’s escape for the Pall Mall Gazette." }, { "name": "Bersicker", "aliases": [ "the escaped wolf", "the wolf" ], "description": "A grey wolf at the Zoological Gardens who escapes after a visit from a strange man and later returns with cuts from broken glass. He behaves tamely around Bilder." }, { "name": "The wolf section gardener", "aliases": [ "the gardener" ], "description": "An unnamed gardener at the Zoological Gardens who says he saw a large grey animal running north from the Gardens after Bersicker escaped." }, { "name": "Lucy’s maid", "aliases": [ "her maid", "the maid" ], "description": "An unnamed maid in the Westenra household who attends Lucy and prepares her for bed." }, { "name": "Lucy’s four maids", "aliases": [ "the maids", "the servant-women", "the sleeping servants" ], "description": "The four women servants at Hillingham, including a young maid who is more deeply affected by laudanum. They are drugged and found unconscious after Lucy’s mother dies." }, { "name": "Lucy’s young maid", "aliases": [ "the young girl", "the fourth maid" ], "description": "The youngest of Lucy’s four maids, who is affected most strongly by laudanum and remains asleep while the others are roused." }, { "name": "Gentleman with Arthur’s message", "aliases": [ "the gentleman" ], "description": "An unnamed man who comes to Hillingham with a message from Arthur Holmwood while Seward and Van Helsing are treating Lucy." }, { "name": "Jack Smollet", "aliases": [ "Jack Smollet" ], "description": "A carrier employed by Harris & Sons who helps move wooden boxes to the empty house beside Seward’s asylum. Renfield attacks him and his fellow carrier." }, { "name": "Thomas Snelling", "aliases": [ "Thomas Snelling" ], "description": "A carrier employed by Harris & Sons who helps move wooden boxes to the empty house beside Seward’s asylum. Jonathan later learns Snelling was an assistant to the responsible carrier, Smollet." }, { "name": "Patrick Hennessey", "aliases": [ "Dr. Hennessey" ], "description": "A doctor temporarily overseeing Renfield at Seward’s asylum. He reports Renfield’s attack on two carriers delivering boxes to the nearby empty house." }, { "name": "Hardy", "aliases": [ "the attendant Hardy" ], "description": "An attendant at Seward’s asylum whose finger is broken while helping restrain Renfield." }, { "name": "Two carriers", "aliases": [ "the carrier’s men", "the two men" ], "description": "Two unnamed moving-company workers delivering heavy wooden boxes to the empty house next to Seward’s asylum. Renfield attacks them, believing they intend to rob or murder him." }, { "name": "Harris & Sons", "aliases": [ "Harris & Sons, Moving and Shipment Company" ], "description": "The moving and shipment company employing Jack Smollet and Thomas Snelling, who deliver wooden boxes to the empty house beside Seward’s asylum." }, { "name": "Mr. Marquand", "aliases": [ "the solicitor" ], "description": "A solicitor at Wholeman, Sons, Marquand & Lidderdale who handles Mrs. Westenra’s estate and explains that she left it to Arthur Holmwood." }, { "name": "Wholeman, Sons, Marquand & Lidderdale", "aliases": [], "description": "The law firm representing Mrs. Westenra’s estate, whose solicitor Mr. Marquand visits Seward and Van Helsing." }, { "name": "Mrs. Westenra’s doctor", "aliases": [ "the doctor who attended her" ], "description": "An unnamed doctor who had attended Lucy’s mother and knew she had heart disease." }, { "name": "Woman who performs last offices", "aliases": [ "the woman" ], "description": "An unnamed woman who prepares Lucy’s body for burial and remarks on her beauty." }, { "name": "Undertaker", "aliases": [ "the urbane undertaker" ], "description": "The unnamed undertaker who arranges Lucy and Mrs. Westenra’s funeral and prepares Lucy’s body and coffin." }, { "name": "Undertaker’s men", "aliases": [ "the undertaker’s staff" ], "description": "The undertaker’s unnamed staff, who assist with the funeral preparations and coffin." }, { "name": "Mrs. Westenra’s solicitor", "aliases": [ "the solicitor for the late Mrs. Westenra" ], "description": "An unnamed solicitor whose name and address Seward finds among Mrs. Westenra’s papers; Mr. Marquand later handles her estate." }, { "name": "Arthur’s messenger", "aliases": [ "the gentleman who had come with a message" ], "description": "An unnamed man who arrives at Hillingham with a message from Arthur Holmwood while Lucy is being treated." }, { "name": "Sir John Paxton", "aliases": [ "the President of the Incorporated Law Society" ], "description": "The president of the Incorporated Law Society, represented at Peter Hawkins’s funeral by a gentleman." }, { "name": "London agent", "aliases": [ "his London agent" ], "description": "An unnamed agent of Peter Hawkins who attends Hawkins’s funeral." }, { "name": "Old friends of Peter Hawkins", "aliases": [ "one or two old friends of his from Exeter" ], "description": "One or two unnamed friends from Exeter who attend Peter Hawkins’s funeral." }, { "name": "Bloofer lady", "aliases": [ "the “bloofer lady”" ], "description": "A mysterious woman whom young children in Hampstead say lures them away for walks. She is Lucy Westenra in her Un-Dead state, preying on children and leaving small wounds on their throats." }, { "name": "Hampstead children", "aliases": [ "the children", "the little ones", "tiny tots" ], "description": "Young children in Hampstead who go missing after playing on the Heath and say they were lured away by a “bloofer lady.” Some are found weak with small wounds on their throats." }, { "name": "Ellen Terry", "aliases": [], "description": "A person mentioned by a Westminster Gazette correspondent as a comparison for the children’s performances of the “bloofer lady”; she does not appear directly." }, { "name": "Westminster Gazette correspondent", "aliases": [ "a correspondent" ], "description": "An unnamed correspondent who writes about the children missing in Hampstead and their “bloofer lady” stories." }, { "name": "Westminster Gazette reporter", "aliases": [ "the newspaper reporter" ], "description": "An unnamed reporter who files the extra special report about another child injured on Hampstead Heath." }, { "name": "Mary", "aliases": [], "description": "An unnamed household servant who opens the door and announces Dr. Van Helsing when he visits Mina." }, { "name": "Jonathan’s friend on The Exeter News", "aliases": [], "description": "An unnamed friend of Jonathan who works for The Exeter News and tells him that accurate memory is essential for interviewing." }, { "name": "Dr. Vincent", "aliases": [ "Vincent" ], "description": "A physician at the North Hospital and a friend of Van Helsing and Seward. He treats the Hampstead child with throat wounds and attributes them to an animal bite, likely a bat." }, { "name": "Hampstead child found by Van Helsing and Seward", "aliases": [ "the child", "the tiny child", "the fair-haired child" ], "description": "An unnamed child whom Lucy, in her Un-Dead state, carries through the churchyard. Van Helsing and Seward find the child unharmed and leave it where a policeman will discover it." }, { "name": "Kingstead sexton", "aliases": [ "the sexton" ], "description": "The unnamed sexton who locks the churchyard gate after visitors and mourners have left." }, { "name": "Kingstead gravediggers", "aliases": [ "the gravediggers" ], "description": "Unnamed workers who complete a funeral at Kingstead before Van Helsing and his companions enter the churchyard." }, { "name": "Arminius", "aliases": [ "Van Helsing’s friend Arminius", "Arminus" ], "description": "Van Helsing’s friend at Buda-Pesth University who researches and records Dracula’s history. His findings identify Dracula as likely the Voivode who fought the Turks and describe the history of the Dracula family." }, { "name": "Billington junior", "aliases": [ "Mr. Billington’s son" ], "description": "The son of Whitby solicitor Samuel F. Billington, who meets Jonathan at the station and brings him to his father’s home." }, { "name": "Carter Paterson carriers", "aliases": [ "the carriers’ men", "the men who did the teaming" ], "description": "Unnamed workers who transported the boxes to Carfax and tell Jonathan about the dusty, neglected house and chapel." }, { "name": "Three terriers", "aliases": [ "the dogs" ], "description": "Lord Godalming’s three terriers, summoned by his whistle to attack and disperse the rats in Dracula’s chapel at Carfax." }, { "name": "Thomas Snelling’s wife", "aliases": [ "Snelling’s wife", "his wife" ], "description": "An unnamed woman who tells Jonathan that Thomas Snelling was only the assistant to Smollet, the responsible carrier." }, { "name": "Joseph Smollet", "aliases": [ "Mr. Joseph Smollet", "Mr. Smollet", "Smollet" ], "description": "A carrier who remembers moving boxes from Carfax to two London addresses and provides Jonathan with a lead to Sam Bloxam. He was the responsible carrier, with Thomas Snelling as his assistant." }, { "name": "Children in the Smollet household", "aliases": [ "one of the children" ], "description": "An unnamed child in Joseph Smollet’s household who fetches an envelope and paper at Jonathan’s request." }, { "name": "Sam Bloxam", "aliases": [ "Mr. Bloxam" ], "description": "A carrier who tells Jonathan he moved nine boxes from Carfax to a house in Piccadilly. He describes the strong old man who met him at both houses." }, { "name": "Corcoran’s deputy", "aliases": [ "the depity", "the man who came to the door" ], "description": "An unnamed deputy at Corcoran’s lodging-house who tells Jonathan that Sam Bloxam left for work in Poplar." }, { "name": "Coffee-shop workman", "aliases": [ "one of the workmen" ], "description": "An unnamed workman in Poplar who points Jonathan toward the new cold-storage building on Cross Angel Street." }, { "name": "Other coffee-shop workmen", "aliases": [ "some workmen" ], "description": "Unnamed workers having lunch at a Poplar coffee-shop when Jonathan asks about a new warehouse." }, { "name": "Cross Angel Street gatekeeper", "aliases": [ "the gatekeeper" ], "description": "An unnamed gatekeeper at the new cold-storage building who helps Jonathan find Sam Bloxam after being paid." }, { "name": "Cross Angel Street foreman", "aliases": [ "the foreman" ], "description": "An unnamed foreman at the new cold-storage building who sends for Sam Bloxam after Jonathan pays him." }, { "name": "Three Piccadilly helpers", "aliases": [ "the three loafers" ], "description": "Three unnamed men who help carry the boxes up the steps at the Piccadilly house and demand extra payment." }, { "name": "Piccadilly mews groom", "aliases": [ "one of the grooms", "one of them" ], "description": "An unnamed groom or helper near the Piccadilly house who tells Jonathan the house was recently taken and suggests contacting Mitchell, Sons, & Candy." }, { "name": "Other Piccadilly mews workers", "aliases": [ "one or two of the grooms and helpers" ], "description": "Unnamed workers in the Piccadilly mews whom Jonathan asks about the empty house." }, { "name": "Mitchell, Sons & Candy agent", "aliases": [ "the gentleman who saw me" ], "description": "An unnamed representative of the house agency who initially refuses to disclose the buyer of 347 Piccadilly, then agrees to seek permission to share the information with Lord Godalming." }, { "name": "Mitchell, Sons & Candy", "aliases": [ "Mitchell, Sons, & Candy" ], "description": "The house agency that handled the sale of 347 Piccadilly and reports that the purchaser was Count de Ville." }, { "name": "Archibald Winter-Suffield", "aliases": [ "the late Mr. Archibald Winter-Suffield" ], "description": "The deceased former owner of 347 Piccadilly; his executors sold the house to Count de Ville." }, { "name": "Enoch", "aliases": [], "description": "A biblical figure whom Renfield cites as someone who “walked with God” when explaining his supposed spiritual position to Seward." }, { "name": "American interviewer", "aliases": [ "the American interviewer" ], "description": "An unnamed interviewer mentioned by Seward for using the word “story”; the passage gives no further identifying information." }, { "name": "Simmons", "aliases": [ "the man on duty", "the attendant" ], "description": "An asylum attendant who reports Renfield’s injury and helps watch over him. Seward sends him to fetch Van Helsing." }, { "name": "Telegraph boy", "aliases": [ "the telegraph messenger" ], "description": "An unnamed boy who brings Mina’s telegram warning the group that Dracula has left Carfax and is heading south." }, { "name": "Piccadilly locksmith", "aliases": [ "the locksmith", "the workman", "the smith" ], "description": "An unnamed locksmith hired by Lord Godalming and Quincey Morris to open the Piccadilly house. He opens the door without attracting attention and gives Godalming a key." }, { "name": "Piccadilly policeman", "aliases": [ "the policeman" ], "description": "An unnamed policeman who sees the locksmith at work and allows him to continue." }, { "name": "Doolittle’s Wharf office man", "aliases": [ "the man in an office of wood", "the merchant" ], "description": "An unnamed clerk at Doolittle’s Wharf who helps Van Helsing’s party trace the Czarina Catherine’s voyage after Quincey pays him." }, { "name": "Czarina Catherine’s captain", "aliases": [ "the captain" ], "description": "The captain of the ship carrying Dracula’s last earth-box toward Varna. He negotiates with Dracula, complains about the delay and fog, and sails when the tide allows." }, { "name": "Czarina Catherine’s mate", "aliases": [ "the mate" ], "description": "An unnamed officer who accompanies Dracula below deck to inspect the stowed box." }, { "name": "Czarina Catherine’s owner", "aliases": [ "the owner of the ship", "the ship’s owner" ], "description": "The shipowner who shows Van Helsing’s party the Czarina Catherine’s invoices and papers, confirming the box is to be landed at Varna." }, { "name": "Ristics", "aliases": [ "the agent at Varna", "one Ristics" ], "description": "An agent in Varna named in the ship’s arrangements, who is to present credentials and receive Dracula’s box. He is mentioned but does not appear directly." }, { "name": "Rufus Smith", "aliases": [], "description": "A Lloyd’s representative in London who sends Lord Godalming telegrams reporting the Czarina Catherine’s progress, including its arrival at the Dardanelles and Galatz." }, { "name": "Captain Donelson", "aliases": [ "Donelson", "the skipper" ], "description": "The captain of the Czarina Catherine, whose unusually fast voyage and fog-shrouded route bring Dracula’s box to Galatz. He gives Harker’s party the receipt identifying Immanuel Hildesheim as the man who collected it." }, { "name": "Mackenzie & Steinkoff", "aliases": [ "Messrs. Mackenzie & Steinkoff" ], "description": "Agents in Galatz for the London firm of Hapgood. They take Harker, Van Helsing, and Seward aboard the Czarina Catherine." }, { "name": "Hapgood", "aliases": [ "the London firm of Hapgood" ], "description": "The London firm represented in Galatz by Mackenzie & Steinkoff; the passage gives no further identifying details." }, { "name": "Immanuel Hildesheim", "aliases": [ "Hildesheim" ], "description": "A Galatz officeholder who accepts payment to receive Dracula’s box from the Czarina Catherine and hand it to Petrof Skinsky. He identifies Skinsky’s role and the arrangements for moving the box upriver." }, { "name": "Petrof Skinsky", "aliases": [ "Skinsky" ], "description": "A Galatz agent who deals with Slovak river traders and receives Dracula’s box from Immanuel Hildesheim. He is later found murdered, with his throat torn open, and his body is attributed locally to a Slovak." }, { "name": "Skinsky’s neighbour", "aliases": [ "one of his neighbours" ], "description": "An unnamed neighbour of Petrof Skinsky who tells Harker’s party that Skinsky had left town." }, { "name": "Skinsky’s landlord", "aliases": [ "his landlord" ], "description": "An unnamed landlord who confirms that Skinsky had left and had returned his house key and rent by messenger." }, { "name": "Galatz shipping agent’s clerk", "aliases": [ "the clerk" ], "description": "An unnamed clerk handling routine work at the Galatz consulate while the Consul is away and the Vice-Consul is sick. 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