First, how are these people able to recall entire conversations verbatim, regardless of whether or not the conversations took place just before they started writing the entry? Human recollection can't be THAT accurate...
* That's a trope common to '''ALL''' [[Epistolary Novel|Epistolary Novels]]; it's a side-effect of the medium itself. [[Wuthering Heights (Literaturenovel)|Mr. Lockwood, Nellie Dean]], [[The Tenant of Wildfell Hall|Gilbert Markham]], [[Frankenstein|Robert Walton]], and others all share the Harkers' iron-clad memory. [[Willing Suspension of Disbelief]]. Now, if some author in the future wanted to [[Deconstruction|deconstruct]] this and show what the authors' recollections of past events would realistically look like, that would certainly be interesting...
Second, it's an automatic spoiler, in that when the characters are embarking on something dangerous or terrifying, you know at least whoever is writing the current entry made it out alive and with their mental faculties intact enough to write a journal entry.
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* Have fun imagining Mina transcribing the account of her husband's seduction by female vampires from shorthand.
* For what it's worth, [[Fred Saberhagen]]'s ''[[The Dracula Tape (Literature)|The Dracula Tape]]'' kind of plays with the questions raised by the OP; Dracula himself often notes at times that he suspects that a bit of [[Unreliable Narrator]] was at work to make various parties sound better than they were, and it's revealed that several of the entries were concocted by Dracula and the entry-writer (who, unknown to the others, he'd won over to sympathise with him) to throw the others off the scent, and some of the more dramatic flourishes were thrown in because neither was exactly a master storyteller; the others were just too blinkered to notice. In either case, the entries are unrealistically detailed because the writer was at times essentially ''making shit up''.
== Which year this novel is set in? And what are exactly the boxes in Dracula's house? ==
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