Dracula is an urdu translation of 1897 classic gothic horror novel dracula by irish author bram stoker. the novel is translated in urdu language by mazhar ul haq alvi and published by ilm o irfan publishers, lahore. famous for introducing the character of the vampire count dracula, the novel tells the story of dracula's attempt to move from transylvania to england so he may find new blood and spread the undead curse, and the battle between dracula and a small group of men and women led by professor abraham van helsing. the story is told in epistolary format, as a series of letters, diary entries, and ships' log entries, whose narrators are the novel's protagonists, and occasionally supplemented with newspaper clippings relating events not directly witnessed. the tale begins with jonathan harker, a newly qualified english solicitor, visiting count dracula in the carpathian mountains on the border of transylvania, bukovina, and moldavia, to provide legal support for a real estate transaction overseen by harker's employer. at first enticed by dracula's gracious manners, harker soon realizes that he is dracula's prisoner. wandering the count's castle against dracula's admonition, harker encounters three female vampires, called