The voices of Dracula
14 voices in Dracula by Bram Stoker. Every one is a separate voice, cast to the character as written.
- Narrator — The authoritative framing voice stitching together the found documents — journals, letters, newspaper cuttings, phonograph transcripts. Victorian, measured, Gothic literary voice.
- Jonathan Harker — Young English solicitor in his mid-20s. Travels to Transylvania on business and becomes Dracula's prisoner. Main narrator of the opening and closing chapters.
- Count Dracula — Ancient vampire lord of Transylvania, hundreds of years old. Tall, pale, aquiline features with sharp white teeth and dark hypnotic eyes. Controls wolves, bats, and weather.
- Mina — Jonathan Harker's fiancee, later wife. Intelligent young woman and assistant schoolmistress. Becomes psychically linked to Dracula after being forced to drink his blood.
- Van Helsing — Elderly Dutch professor, physician, scientist, and metaphysician. Abraham Van Helsing. White-haired, stocky. Former teacher of Dr. Seward. Encyclopaedic knowledge of the supernatural.
- Dr. Seward — Director of Purfleet lunatic asylum. Late 30s, British, professionally rigorous. Former student of Van Helsing. Records his diary on a phonograph.
- Lucy — Mina's closest friend. Young, beautiful English socialite. Dracula's first English victim — drained through repeated night visits and transformed into a vampire after death.
- Arthur Holmwood — English nobleman, later Lord Godalming. Lucy's fiance. Late 20s, athletic, handsome, wealthy.
- Quincey Morris — Young Texan American adventurer. One of Lucy's three suitors. Experienced frontiersman. Carries a bowie knife. Dies heroically at the climax.
- Renfield — Patient confined in Seward's asylum. Suffers from zoophagous mania, consuming creatures to absorb their life force. Falls under Dracula's thrall.
- Mrs. Westenra — Lucy's widowed mother. Elderly with a serious heart condition. Caring, conventional, oblivious to the supernatural danger around her daughter.
- Mr. Hawkins — Jonathan Harker's elderly employer at the law firm. Father figure to Jonathan and Mina.
- Vampire Woman — One of three undead women in Castle Dracula. Appears in Chapter 3 to prey on Jonathan. Beautiful but inhuman — voluptuous, pale, with sharp teeth.
- Innkeeper's Wife — Elderly innkeeper's wife at the Golden Krone Hotel in Bistritz. Tries desperately to warn Jonathan not to go to Castle Dracula.