Yes, that's the opposite of _Dracula_, though. Dracula isn't overwhelmed by the modern world, he's defeated by it. That's not the same thing. He's no Lestat in

Yes, that's the opposite of _Dracula_, though. Dracula isn't overwhelmed by the modern world, he's defeated by it. That's not the same thing. He's no Lestat in _Interview_, driven to catatonia by change.* Dracula loves the modern world (particularly with its lack of Catholicism & peasant superstitions about how to fight vampires). He is, in fact, an enthusiast for modernity and England, an anglophile otaku, you might say, with a library stuffed full of English books & periodicals he reads obsessively: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dracula/Chapter_2 https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dracula/Chapter_2 Further, he is a dark counterpart to Van Helsing in that throughout the novel, he is 'waking up', and scientifically experimenting in learning how to use his vampiric powers effectively in the modern context, and Van Helsing tells us that Dracula was only days away from becoming invincible, after discovering that he is allowed to transport his own coffin-soil and hide them away in places that only Dracula's fog or animal forms could ever reach: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dracula/Chapter_23 https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dracula/Chapter_23 (Rather than depending on humans, who keep receipts and addresses, and happily reveal the locations of all of the coffins to the protagonists.) It is only by the skin of their teeth that they are able to destroy his backups before he has figured out how to move & hide them, and reduce him to a single backup and force him to flee to Transylvania before he finishes his 'hard takeoff vampire Singularity', if you will. * yes, I know Rice retconned this for her narrative convenience so she could churn out sequel after sequel. Nevertheless.