Dracula for Beginners

Loosely adapted from Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’. Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania, and meets the Count and several other strange occupants of Castle Dracula. He returns to England a changed man, and marries Mina Murray. Then Mina’s friend Lucy Westenra mysteriously becomes ill, and Doctor van Helsing, a specialist in obscure diseases, is sent for. Meanwhile, Count Dracula has arrived in England. Van Helsing suspects him of being the cause of Lucy’s illness, and hands out crosses and garlic for protection. With vampirism eventually affecting almost everybody, a novel and little-known cure that won’t frighten the children is tried out, and after much confusion, Dracula is defeated.