“I, Abraham Van Helsing, Doctor of Sciences, University of Amsterdam, herewith continue the story of Dracula, the Warrior Prince from the Fifteenth Century who returned after his death as a vampire, feeding upon the blood of his innocent victims... while seeking, once more, the love that had been lost to him in life through the suicide of his beloved Elisabeta.
“Yet it is not truly I who tell this story, but several persons who, with me, encountered Dracula when he traveled from his native land to England... such as the dictaphone journal of Dr. John Seward, my student in former days and now my colleague, and the letters of Wilhelmina Murray.
“Little suspecting that her fiancé, Mr. Jonathan Harker, had fallen into the clutches of three female vampires in a far off land, our beloved Mina had become intrigued by a foreign nobleman who called himself "Prince Mad of Szeklys"... little suspecting that he was in truth the undead fiend, Dracula. How could she... when neither she nor anyone else in England so much as suspected the existence of the Lord of Vampires?
“Ah, but he was there! I myself arrived at the Westenra estate at Hillingham, London, at the invitation of Dr. Seward... and was almost immediately confronted by the pitiful sight of our dear Mina's friend, Miss Lucy Westenra, so pale and wan that I knew at once she had been the victim, that very night, of another vampire attack.”
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