people are always trying to humanize dracula and hes always trying to draculize humans

Mina: "He is well, and will be returning in about a week."

All of us:

My dear friend Jonathan caught in the clutches of a beast most foul 😔

The castle is on the very edge of a terrible precipice. A stone falling from the window would fall a thousand feet without touching anything! As far as the eye can reach is a sea of green tree tops, with occasionally a deep rift where there is a chasm.

Now remember that the Count was originally meant to be Austrian, and his castle to be in Styria, Austria.

Here's what the most famous castle in the region looks like: