Bram Stoker's novel Dracula was released in 1897. The plot of this epistolary novel is told through letters, journal entries, and newspaper articles. It has no one protagonist, however it begins with solicitor Jonathan Harker conducting a business trip to Count Dracula's castle in Transylvania. After finding that Dracula is a vampire, Harker flees the castle, and the Count relocates to England, where he plagues the coastal town of Whitby. Dracula is hunted and eventually killed by a small squad commanded by Abraham Van Helsing.The majority of Dracula was written in the 1890s. Stoker wrote almost a hundred pages of literary notes, focusing heavily on Transylvanian mythology and history.
