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Dracula

The abbey steps and the harbour at Whitby, where the Demeter runs aground, are exact and still walkable. Transylvania is drawn from maps Stoker never travelled and Carfax is invented, which is precisely what the labels are for.

Jonathan Harker

The Carpathians, above the Borgo Pass

The Borgo Pass, 5 May · 0% through the novel

The district he named is in the extreme east of the country, just on the borders of three states, Transylvania, Moldavia and Bukovina, in the midst of the Carpathian mountains; one of the wildest and least known portions of Europe.

The Count's castle stands somewhere above the Borgo Pass, in the mountains Harker cannot find on any map. The pass is real and still crossed; the castle is not, which is why it is drawn from the place rather than pinned to it.

inspired by Castle Dracula is Stoker's invention. He sited it beyond the Borgo (Tihuța) Pass in the Carpathians, a real mountain road he mapped without ever visiting. The pin marks the pass.

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