Dracula resurrection 211/1/2022 ![]() ![]() Quincey pays a visit to Arthur Holmwood, who initially rebuff's Quincey's plea for help. Mina also consumed some of Báthory's blood, giving her visions of her horrible past as an abused 15-year-old wife of a depraved despot and shunned by her family because of her homosexual tendencies. Late that same night, Báthory sneaks into Mina's room and rapes her (although Mina at first believes it is the spirit of Jonathan or Dracula). ![]() ![]() Consumed with grief over the misplaced anger toward his father and the betrayal that caused his father to become a drunkard, Quincey vows to hunt Dracula down and kill him himself.Īfter leaving his mother behind, Quincey is accosted by Van Helsing, who threatens the boy to give up his thirst for vengeance or suffer for it. Mina returns home to prepare for Jonathan's funeral, and finds Quincey there and enraged he had smashed open his father's off-limits safe and found inside the journals that he and his friends kept while on their quest to hunt down Dracula as well as his mother's affair with the Count. Years ago, Cotford worked the Jack the Ripper case and had nearly caught him his top suspect was Abraham Van Helsing because of the gross mutilations he performed on corpses that caused him to lose his medical license. The detective, Cotford, insinuates that Van Helsing had orchestrated both Jonathan and Seward's death. While Quincey travels home, Mina is brought into the coroner's office to identify Jonathan's body. Soon after, Quincey learns in the newspaper that his father was murdered in Piccadilly after being impaled on a large wooden stake. After the actor playing Dracula quits, he approaches Basarab about playing the role Basarab grows angry with the portrayal of Dracula as a monster, and decides to accept the role if only to right what he sees as slander to a national hero. Quincey fervently reads the novel and researches Dracula, who he finds was a real-life Romanian prince nicknamed Vlad the Impaler. Quincey is shocked to find his parents are characters in the novel, as are their former friends. Quincey, through Basarab's urgings, becomes involved with the Lyceum Theater where Bram Stoker is currently trying to put together a stage performance of his failed novel. Abraham Van Helsing, now a sickly old man, returns to London after hearing of Seward's death. As Seward chases the vampires, he is struck and killed by a carriage in which Báthory and the vampires escape. However, they are disturbed when Báthory's vampiric attendants attempt to attack Basarab, although they are thwarted by Seward. To his surprise, he is summoned by Basarab to his dressing room, where they strike up an unlikely friendship. Quincey learns that Basarab, a Romanian actor who is taking Europe by storm, is in town to perform in Richard III, and vows to see his performance no matter how it enrages his father, whom he has grown to despise. Quincey Harker, son to Jonathan and Mina, is in Paris having been forced to attend law school instead of pursuing a career in theater. After seeing her bathe in a young woman's blood, he tracks her to a theater in Paris. The novel begins with Seward tracking down Elizabeth Báthory, whom he believes is a vampire. Though they were victorious in their quest, the band of heroes has now become a broken shadow of its former-self Jack Seward has become a morphine addict obsessed with stamping out the undead, Arthur Holmwood hides behind his loveless marriage and Jonathan Harker drowns his sorrows and insecurities in alcohol and prostitutes over Mina's remaining taint from Dracula, which has caused her to retain her youth. Twenty-five years have passed since the vampire Count Dracula met his end at the hands of Jonathan Harker and Quincey Morris. ![]()
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