Morbid adventures

Mina and Jonathan get married in Budapest and on return back home get asked by Mr.Hawkins to join him as family. His sole will is written down for them supplementing to their happiness but Jonathan is still mentally weak for his adventures from before. Alas! Mr. Hawkins also dies and funerals take place. In Hillingham that of the Westenra mother and daughter and in Exeter that of Mr. Hawkins. Much morbidity makes way in the story but for strange reasons Lucy makes a very beautiful corpse and seems to grow more beautiful with passing hours. The clever Dr. Van Helsing quickly takes possession of all of Lucy's diaries and the memorandum incase anyone else should get hold of it. When discovering that the all of Mrs. Westenra's will gets passed down to Arthur he asks of Arthur to keep hold of those possessions so that he may learn better of what exactly happened. He finds Mina's letters to Lucy and realises it could be a possible loophole to all the mystery. While in London Jonathan and Mina see Dracula staring at a beautiful girl and Jonathan reacts with profound horror, grabbing hold of his wife with much strength. Seeing that her husband is deeply troubled Mina desperately wants to help him in any way she can and after having read his journals does not really know what to make of the paranormal incidents. Dr. Van Helsing's letter to her then comes in answer as he might have some way or other of helping her understand what has happened. Their meeting is quite successful as both donate to each other's knowledge and the existence of the undead vampire is confirmed. The mystery of "the bloofer lady" in Hampstead catches Van Helsing's interest as children seem to be getting lured by a lady only to be discovered with a wound on the throat the next day. An animal bite is suspected by doctors but Helsing knows all too well that this again is the working of a vampire. What is most shocking then is the discovery it is actually Lucy who is behind this attack.

Van Helsing with companion Dr.Seward enter Lucy's ancestral tomb at night and open up her coffin to find it empty. Later they see a white woman walking in the graveyard and Helsing saves a child who may have been attacked in the same way. With such evidence Helsing tries to bring to Seward the full idea of Lucy's transformation into the undead but his emotional attachment to her keep him in doubt of his teacher's deductions. The next day they go again to look at the coffin where they find Lucy, prominently beautiful and healthy looking with lips bloddy red. Van Helsing opens up her lips to show to him the pointed teeth that have been the cause of the punctures in the children's throats. Later he summons the three men who loved Lucy so dearly and with them venture again to the tomb at night. He keeps them positioned in different places and crumbles the "Host" in the tomb door. Lucy in her deathly pallor and voluptuous beauty then arrives with a child in her breasts and drops it when finally aware of others in her presence. With "eyes blazed with unholy light" and "a voluptuous smile" she tries attacking Jonathan and is stopped by Helsing and his crucifix. Astounded by the ambush Lucy tries to get in the tomb and is unable to do so until Helsing recollects the Catholic wafer allowing her "with a corporeal body" to "pass in through the interstice".

All three men as shocked as they are become more sure than ever of Van Helsing's deductions and agree on helping him to the best of their abilities. The next day they arrive again to Lucy's coffin and Van Helsing produces different equipments from his bag among which are a "wodden stake, some two and a half or three inches thick and three inches thick" and a "heavy hammer". Arthur is given the task of setting Lucy's soul free so it may reast in heaven causing the "Un-dead to pass away". "Arthur took the satke and the hammer," "Then he struck with all his might." "He looked like a figure of Thor" as he did so and the thing in the coffin let out a screech of pain. The Un-dead was done away with and Lucy was put to peace again. Helsing allows Arthur to now give her a final kiss so that he is allowed a proper goodbye.

One chapter of the greusome attack brought upon by Dracula is closed but not all is over as our heroes only take off some couple days to rest before they meet again with two new companions, Mina and Jonathan so that they may find a way to terminate Dracula and relieve England of the horror.