London
Dracula enters London seeking crowded anonymity, scatters his earth through its districts, and is driven back out by the company he inadvertently unites.
Story so far
Count Dracula studies London for years and buys Carfax so he can enter its crowded life without remaining a conspicuous stranger. After landing at Whitby, he establishes refuges at Purfleet, Mile End, Bermondsey, and Piccadilly House, preys on Lucy and Mina, and uses the city's property and freight systems as cover.
The Dracula Hunters answer with their own urban network of asylum records, solicitors, laborers, agents, telegraphs, railways, and sacred searches. By sanctifying forty-nine boxes and nearly striking Dracula at Piccadilly, they force him to abandon the city by sea.
Appearance
A vast late-Victorian metropolis of crowded streets, fashionable squares, working districts, railway terminals, wharves, fog, property offices, institutions, and isolated houses.
Role
London is Dracula's intended field of expansion and the human system whose density hides him until the hunters turn its documents and connections against him.
Relationships
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- Dracula enters London seeking crowded anonymity, scatters his earth through its districts, and is driven back out by the company he inadvertently unites.