Jonathan Harker

Jonathan Harker is a fictional character and the protagonist in the 1897 horror novel Dracula by Bram Stoker (though other productions show Van Helsing as the central character/protagonist). However, in the book, most of how they find Count Dracula is through the combined efforts of Harker, John Seward, Quincey Morris, Arthur Holmwood, and Abraham Van Helsing, using Harker's many diary entries as a way to somehow predict Dracula's course of actio... more

Jonathan Harker is a fictional character and the protagonist in the 1897 horror novel Dracula by Bram Stoker (though other productions show Van Helsing as the central character/protagonist). However, in the book, most of how they find Count Dracula is through the combined efforts of Harker, John Seward, Quincey Morris, Arthur Holmwood, and Abraham Van Helsing, using Harker's many diary entries as a way to somehow predict Dracula's course of action. Jonathan Harker is re-imagined to a young female character named Evangeline Harker in Fangland by John Marks. Harker is a recently certified solicitor from Exeter, who is sent by his employer, Mr. Hawkins, to Transylvania in order to consult a client on a property transaction. This client is a mysterious count who lives in a castle in the Carpathian Mountains and is planning to move to England where he plans to reside at (among other locations) Carfax Abbey. Soon after Harker's arrival at the castle, he is made a prisoner by this Count... less