Analyzing the Greatest Horror Novel - Dracula by Bram Stoker - Dracula's First Appearance

And what an entrance it is

One of the things that’s so realistic about the start of Chapter 2 of Dracula, is how Jonathan Harker who had fallen asleep within the coach begins pinching himself in the hopes that he might awaken to find himself not in the Carpathians, but in London. He wishes for his beloved Mina, complaining internally how he was a Solicitor and not a ‘Soclicitor’s…