Dracula didn’t end the way Bram Stoker wrote it.

Dracula got this look of peace on his face and he crumbled into dust. Was that his demise? Was that his cheeky escape, that look of peace on his face? What was it?

DRACULA THE ETERNAL: LISA MONDE INTERVIEWS DACRE STOKER 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 104

DACRE STOKER

Dracula really didn’t end the way Bram Stoker wrote it in the novel. Stoker had Jonathan Harker slit Dracula’s throat and Quincey Morris stab him with a bowie knife. But the vampire hunter Van Helsing says a vampire can only be killed with a wooden stake.

Dracula got this look of peace on his face and he crumbled into dust. Was that his demise? Was that his cheeky escape, that look of peace on his face? What was it?

In my research on Dracula I found that right after that scene Stoker wrote a volcanic eruption. But that was edited out of the typescript. So I figured there’s got to be some reason for this. Did he plan a sequel? What was it?

That’s why in Dracula the Un-Dead I pick up the story 25 years later. Young Quincey asks, “W…