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Jonathan Harker's Journal May 4-5, 1875
Jonathan Harker describes the landscapes during his trip from Munich to Hungary. The owner of the inn where he spends the night gives him a crucifix when he finds out where he is going and especially, when he manifests the superstition that on the night he travels with him, it is the night where all the evil spirits are released. -
Jonathan Harker's Journal from May 5 at night to May 8 1875
Upon arriving at the castle, Jonathan waits at the door until Dracula opens the door for him and invites him in. Harker feels that he sees dark shadows in the Count's dark and dusty castle, is afraid, and finds no mirrors anywhere in the castle. The Count shows him his room, gives him dinner, and talks to Harker about his work while he is there. They both go to sleep shortly before dawn. -
Letter from Mina Murria to Lucy Westerna May 9
Mina tells Lucy that she is learning shorthand, that she really wants to see Jonathan and that she looks forward to working with him when they get married. Mina is going on vacation with Lucy to Whitby. -
Jonathan Harker's Journal May 12 and 15
Harker discovers that there is no servitude in the house and believes that it was the Count himself who picked him up in the carriage, likewise, he questions the Count's supernatural power over the wolves that night.
Dracula tells Jonathan the anecdotes and battles his family has faced against the Turkish invaders, as if he himself had witnessed them all. -
Jonathan Harker's Journal May 18-June 30
Harker thinks that everything was a dream, but when going to the room of the 3 women during the day, he verifies that it was not a nightmare when seeing that the door is open. May 19: The Earl asks Harker to send three letters with different delivery dates. Jonathan suspects that his last day of life is the last date of one of the letters. -
Lucy's Letter to Mina May 24
Lucy tells him that she has received three different marriage proposals. One by Doctor John Seward, director of the asylum, the other by Quincey Morris, a Texan, and the last and most important for her, by Arthur Holmwood, with whom she is in love. -
Dr. Seward's Journal May 24 (phonograph recording)
John Seward is saddened by Lucy's refusal, so he focuses on a patient with particular hallucinations and extraordinary physical strength: R. M Renfield.
Quincey Morris invites Arthur and Seward to see each other, since the three are friends of yesteryear. -
Diario del Dr. Seward del 5 de junio al 20 de julio
R. M. Renfield, who collected flies, spiders, and sparrows, ate the raw sparrows because he was denied having a cat. Seward is fascinated by this case and every detail documents it in his journal.
Diario de Mina from July 26 to August 6
Mina is concerned that Jonathan has not returned and that Lucy has a sleepwalking disorder, as does her father. Lucy cannot leave the room at night because Mina is in charge of locking it. Arthur, -
Dailygraph cutout, August 8, pasted into Mina's diary
The news describes the afternoon when there was a strange storm, the mysterious arrival of a Russian ship, the Demeter, during a terrible storm and with the dead captain tied to the helm and no one else on board, the flight of a dog that was coming on the boat and the unexplained death of another dog attacked by a wild beast. -
Diary on board the Demeter from July 18 to August 4
The captain describes in a newspaper that the sailors were restless because crew members were disappearing every day. This was attributed to a Romanian representing the second sailor, but after his death, he discovered that there was a skinny, tall and thin man on board, who was probably the cause of the deaths of the sailors. -
Wilhemina Murray's Diary July 24 and August 1
It describes Whitby, his legends about ghosts and especially about the lady in white. Mina had a conversation about the death with Mr. Swales, an old man from the town who was at the Battle of Waterloo. Mr. Swales talks about how absurd superstitions, ghosts, myths and legends are.
Mina is worried about Jonathan because she hasn't heard from him in over a month. -
Diario de Mina from August 11 to 19
At dawn, Mina realizes that Lucy has left the room, so she goes looking for her, arrives at the cemetery and finds her sitting next to a black silhouette reclining on her. Mina runs in search of him and the silhouette disappears. By bundling Lucy up, she thinks she has punctured his neck with the shawl, as the next morning Lucy has two red holes in her neck. -
Dr. Seward's Journal August 23
Seward notices that Renfield is calmer so he decides to let him escape to analyze his behavior. That night, Renfield escapes again and goes to the Count's house, when he sees that he is going to be captured, he rebels violently, but he calms down when he sees a bat and calmly returns to the asylum. -
Mina's letter to Lucy August 24
Mina tells him that she is already in Budapest with Jonathan and that they were married right there. She has Jonathan's notebook in her possession, however, she will not read it until he asks her to, since at the moment, he is very upset by the experiences he suffered. -
Letter from Arthur Holmwood August 31
Holmwood asks Seward to visit Lucy, as she appears to be very ill. Meanwhile, Arthur must go to his father, who is also in poor health. -
Seward's Letter to Arthur Holmwood September 2
Seward advises him that he has seen Lucy, who shows signs of illness and blood loss, so he has decided to call his friend and colleague Dr. Van Helsing from Amsterdam, an expert in dark diseases. -
Dr. Seward's Diary September 3
Renfield has released the flies he caught during the sunset, as he states that his master has abandoned him and will no longer return for him.
Seward urgently calls Van Helsing because Lucy's health has worsened. -
Dr. Seward's Journal September 7-10
Van Helsing, seeing Lucy's deterioration, recommends that a blood transfusion be necessary as soon as possible. Arthur, who is younger and stronger, is the one to do it. Likewise,Van Helsing discovers the two marks on Lucy's neck and decides to return to Amsterdam to consult her books.Meanwhile, Lucy improves thanks to the transfusion. Seward remains awake all night to ensure that Lucy is not having nightmares and that her condition does not worsen.The next night, Seward slept in the next room. -
Dr. Seward's Journal September 13
The next morning, Lucy's mother comments that her daughter looks much better and that she has had to remove the garlands from the room due to the heaviness she felt in the environment. Van Helsing again found enormous blood loss and decides to perform another transfusion, now with his blood. -
Lucy Westerna's Diary September 17
Lucy feels better, fearless at night and familiar with garlic blossoms. You hear bat voices and fluttering in your window, but you no longer pay attention to them. -
Dr. Seward's Diary September 17 and 1
Renfield attacks Seward in his office, he is injured in the wrist and Renfield, seeing the blood on the floor, begins to lick it. The next day, Seward returns to Lucy's house to check on her health. -
Lucy's note September 17
Fearing for her life, Lucy wrote what happened to her that night. Again he heard the fluttering in the window; her mother, worried about her, entered the room and stayed next to him. At that moment a wolf broke the window and Lucy's mother, to the fright, breaks Lucy's necklace of garlic flowers and dies due to her poor heart condition. The maids in the house heard the noises and went to ask for help. -
A wolf escapes September 18
A wolf escapes from the zoo, the keeper reports that on that day he had seen a tall, skinny, aquiline-nosed man with red eyes and sharp teeth, who caused great disorder in the wolf. That same night, the animal escaped from its cage and the next day, it had already returned quietly with broken glass embedded in its legs. -
Dr. Seward's Diary September 18
In the morning, Seward and Van Helsing arrived at Lucy's house, when they saw that no one was opening them, they entered by force finding the maidens still drugged, the mother of Lucy dead and Lucy in worse condition than ever. Quincey, who had just arrived as well, offers to do the fourth blood transfusion. Van Helsing finds the note that Lucy left and reads it together with Seward, but they decide to keep the event secret.