Editing Dracula (section)

== Plot ==
Jonathan Harker, a newly qualified English [[solicitor]], visits [[Count Dracula]] at [[Castle Dracula|his castle]] in the [[Carpathian Mountains]] to help the Count purchase a house near London. Ignoring the Count's warning, Harker wanders the castle at night and encounters [[Brides of Dracula|three vampire women]]; Dracula rescues Harker, and gives the women a small child bound inside a bag. Six weeks later, Dracula leaves the castle, abandoning Harker to the women. Harker escapes and ends up delirious in a [[Budapest]] hospital. Dracula takes a ship called the ''Demeter'' for England with boxes of earth from his castle. The captain's [[Logbook|log]] narrates the crew's disappearance until he alone remains, bound to the helm to maintain course. An animal resembling a large dog is seen leaping ashore when the ship runs aground at [[Whitby]].

[[Lucy Westenra]]'s letter to her best friend, Harker's fiancée [[Mina Harker|Mina Murray]], describes her marriage proposals from [[John Seward|Dr. John Seward]], [[Quincey Morris]], and [[Arthur Holmwood]]. Lucy accepts Holmwood's, but all remain friends. Mina joins Lucy on holiday in Whitby. Lucy begins to [[sleepwalking|sleepwalk]]. After Dracula's ship lands in Whitby, he begins to stalk Lucy. Mina receives a letter about her missing fiancé's illness and goes to Budapest to nurse him. Lucy becomes very ill; Seward's old teacher—[[Abraham Van Helsing|Professor Abraham Van Helsing]]—determines the nature of her condition, but he refuses to disclose it, instead diagnosing it as acute [[Hypovolemia|blood-loss]]. Van Helsing places garlic flowers around her room and makes her a necklace of them. Lucy's mother removes the garlic flowers, not knowing they repel vampires. While Seward and Van Helsing are absent, Lucy and her mother are terrified by a wolf and Mrs. Westenra dies of a [[Myocardial infarction|heart attack]]; Lucy dies shortly thereafter. After her burial, newspapers report children being stalked in the night by a "bloofer lady" (beautiful lady), and Van Helsing deduces it is Lucy. Seward, Morris, Arthur and Van Helsing go to her tomb and see that she is a vampire. They stake her heart, [[Decapitation|behead]] her, and fill her mouth with garlic. Jonathan Harker and his new bride Mina return and join the campaign against Dracula.

Everyone stays at Seward's asylum as the men begin to hunt Dracula. Van Helsing finally reveals that vampires can only rest on earth from their homeland. Dracula communicates with Seward's patient, [[Renfield]], an insane man who eats vermin to absorb their life force. After Dracula learns of the group's plot against him, he uses Renfield to enter the asylum. He secretly attacks Mina three times, drinking her blood each time and forcing Mina to drink his blood on the final visit, cursing her to become a vampire after her death unless Dracula is killed. The men discover that Dracula has distributed his boxes of earth around various properties in London. After sterilizing most of the distributed boxes, the group fails to trap the Count in his [[Piccadilly]] house and learns that Dracula is fleeing to his castle in Transylvania with his last box. Using hypnosis, Van Helsing exploits Mina's faint psychic connection to Dracula to track his movements and they pursue, guided by Mina.

In [[Galați|Galatz, Romania]], the hunters split up. Van Helsing and Mina go to Dracula's castle, where the professor destroys the vampire women. Harker and Holmwood pursue Dracula's boat on the river, while Morris and Seward follow them on land. Dracula's box is loaded onto a wagon by [[Romani people|Romani]] men; the hunters attack and rout the Romani. Harker [[Decapitation|decapitates]] Dracula as Quincey stabs him in the heart. Dracula crumbles to dust, freeing Mina from her vampiric curse. Quincey is mortally wounded in the fight against the Romani. He dies, at peace knowing that Mina is saved. A note by Jonathan Harker seven years later states that the Harkers have a son, named Quincey.