Dracula

Count Dracula is one of the main characters of Bram Stoker’s novel of the same name. In the beginning of the novel, we see him through Jonathan Harker’s perspective as Jonathan goes to Transylvania to meet Dracula and help him with the purchase of a London property. Though Jonathan does not know this at first, Dracula is, in fact, a vampire.

Jonathan first describes Dracula as “a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere”. After he observes Dracula better, he remarks on his strange appearance:

His face was a strong – a very strong – aquiline, with high bridge of the thin nose and peculiarly arched nostrils; (…)The mouth, so far as I could see it under the heavy moustache, was fixed and rather cruel-looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth; these protruded over the lips, whose remarkable ruddiness showed astonishing vitality in a man of his years. For the rest, his ears were pale, and at the tops extremely pointed; the chin was broad and strong, and the cheeks firm though thin. The general effect was one of extraordinary pallor.

Jonathan also notices Dracula’s hands have long, pointed nails and hair growing out ...