Dracula (novel)/Trivia


 * Missing Episode: An early chapter of the novel, concerning an unnamed Englishman's (whom most assume to be Jonathan Harker with the numbers sanded off) run in with a vampiress in Munich while on his way to Transylvania on business, was removed from the original manuscript by the publisher. Two years after Stoker's death, it was released as the short story "Dracula's Guest."
 * Science Marches On: When Van Helsing realizes that Lucy is anemic because her blood is being drained by Dracula, he orders that her three suitors give her blood transfusions to save her life. It is apparently too little, too late. The thing is, Dracula was published in 1897, and the type A-B-AB-O blood group system wasn't discovered until 1901. Van Helsing's treatment could easily have killed Lucy by itself. This has led to a more than one Alternate Character Interpretation wherein Dracula just took a quick nip from Lucy for food and wouldn't have seriously hurt her, but ultimately turned her into a vampire only because she was dying anyway from the blood transfusions.
 * That or she's an AB, so she's a universal acceptor. Or all the men just happened to be Type O, the universal donor.
 * A bit of Truth in Television here. They did blood transfusions before then, the first successful human one being performed in 1818. They just didn't always work, the idea being that if the person died, then they just didn't get enough blood, not that the blood was killing them.
 * What Could Have Been: According to Stoker's notes, Dracula's castle could have become a Collapsing Lair when Dracula was killed.