Bram Stoker's Dracula The setting of the story begins in 19th century Europe, in the haunting country of Transylvania. An English lawyer named Jonathan Harker is sent by a businessman to meet an old count named Dracula in his castle located far from civilization. Residents of Transylvania who learn of his destination begin to cross themselves and give him garlic and blessings. As a result of these gestures, Mr. Harker soon develops a feeling of uneasiness about visiting the mysterious Count. However, he arrives at CastleDracula and meets Dracula. He soon realizes that the Count is not a normal human, but an evil, blood-sucking vampire, who can command animals and elements with a simple wave of his hand. Harker escapes but the Count has devised an intricate plan to move to London and exert his forces of evil on innocent people there. However, a group of friends, including an open-minded but ingenious professor, a psychologist, an American, a rich man, as well as Jon an Harker and his wife Mina, learn of the Count's sinister plan and pledge to destroy him before that can create an army. of undead vampires. They systematically destroy his coffins with sacred wafers and drive him out of England to Dracula's Castle. There they enact a definitive plan to destroy Dracula. The author uses suspense as a narrative tool quite effectively throughout the story. There are a good number of parts where the reader is left hanging on the edge of their seat, eager to find out what happens next. However, there were parts where suspense could be used so as to increase the gravity of the plot. Nonetheless, the book is written in a unique way that allows suspense to be easily exploited and created effectively. Dracula is written in the first person like many other novels but then differs slightly. The book begins as a first-person diary of the first character describing his experiences. But then we move on to someone else's diary, then to letters between two characters and finally to a newspaper article. It follows this pattern