<P> As we looked there came a terrible convulsion of the earth so that we seemed to rock to and fro and fell to our knees . At the same moment with a roar which seemed to shake the very heavens the whole castle and the rock and even the hill on which it stood seemed to rise into the air and scatter in fragments while a mighty cloud of black and yellow smoke volume on volume in rolling grandeur was shot upwards with inconceivable rapidity . </P> <P> Then there was a stillness in nature as the echoes of that thunderous report seemed to come as with the hollow boom of a thunder - clap--the long reverberating roll which seems as though the floors of heaven shook . Then down in a mighty ruin falling whence they rose came the fragments that had been tossed skywards in the cataclysm . </P> <Ul> <Li> Jonathan Harker: A solicitor sent to do business with Count Dracula; Mina's fiancé and prisoner in Dracula's castle . </Li> <Li> Count Dracula: A Transylvanian noble who has purchased a house in London . </Li> <Li> Wilhelmina "Mina" Harker (née Murray): A schoolteacher and Jonathan Harker's fiancée (later his wife). </Li> <Li> Lucy Westenra: A 19 - year - old aristocrat; Mina's best friend; Arthur's fiancée and Dracula's first victim . </Li> <Li> Arthur Holmwood: Lucy's suitor and later fiancé . He inherits the title of Lord Godalming upon his father's death . </Li> <Li> John Seward: A doctor; one of Lucy's suitors and a former student of Van Helsing . </Li> <Li> Abraham Van Helsing: A Dutch doctor, lawyer and professor; John Seward's teacher . </Li> <Li> Quincey Morris: An American cowboy and explorer; and one of Lucy's suitors . </Li> <Li> Renfield: A patient at Seward's insane asylum who has come under the influence of Dracula . </Li> <Li> "Weird Sisters": Three siren - like vampire women who serve Dracula . In some of the later adaptations to stage and screen, they are referred to as the Brides of Dracula . </Li> </Ul> <Li> Jonathan Harker: A solicitor sent to do business with Count Dracula; Mina's fiancé and prisoner in Dracula's castle . </Li>

Characters in the book dracula by bram stoker