A man of the night; a creature of human destruction, Dracula is a force to be reckoned with. Johnathan Harker continually struggles trying to escape or resist the count. Bram Stoker uses his personal styles to create a creature from Transylvanian lore known as Dracula. Bram uses several styles to tell his story of the earl and Jonathan. Bram's novel is written in a Gothic style sometimes referred to as a Gothic Romance (Garen 3). Bram's use of the supernatural and the vampiric character as the main character. Dracula's specific attributes highlight Dracula's inhumanity. “[…After seeing Dracula scale the castle walls like a lizard” (1). While Jonathan struggles at the beginning, when he is trapped in the apparent inevitability of the Gothic style, so are the various settings including the ghostly landscape of Transylvania, cemeteries and Lucy's grave in London. Bram wrote his novel in epistolary format. The epistolary is a series of letters and diary entries. Bram's novel begins with an entry in the diary of Mr. Jonathan Harker (Garen 3). “May 3rd. Bistritz - Left Munich at 8.35pm on May 1st, arriving in Vienna early the next morning;” (Stoker 7). Some journal entries contain mundane details of his travels. Bram begins to build suspense; after Jonathan hears warnings from local residents, Jonathan begins to worry for his (Garen) personal safety. “Then he rose, wiped his eyes, and, taking a crucifix from around his neck, offered it to me” (Stoker 11). When Jonathan finally arrives at the castle, the seeds of doubt and suspense are planted. They have grown as Jonathan discovers more information about the count. While Jonathan stays with the count, the reader gets more information about Dracula but... in the center of the paper... this man's character. Bram in his wonderful mind took these things and molded them into a novel, a creature or a legend known simply as Dracula. Works CitedCarol A. Senf, "DRACULA: The Unseen Face In The Mirror," in Journal Of Narrative Technique, vol. 9, No.3, Autumn 1979, pp. 160-70 “Dracula”. Novels for students. Ed. David A Galens. vol. 18. Detroit: Gale, 2003.22-50. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Network. 8 October 2013Rebecca Scott, “DRACULA: Novel by Bram Stoker, 1897”, referring to The Guide to English Literature, 2nd edition, edited by DL Kirkpatrick, Vol.3, St. James Press, 1991, pp. 1554-55Ryan D. Poquette, Critical Essay on Dracula, in Novels for Students, Gale, 2003Senf, Carol. DRACULA: Between tradition and modernism. New York: Ywayne, 1998. Print.Stoker, Bram. DRACULA. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003. Print.