Dracula

Jonathan Harker is sent to Transylvania because Count Dracula wishes to buy a land in England. While there, he notices odd stuff about the count until he wonders off and finds out that his host is most probably nowhere near human. He manages to barely escape. Shift to Mina Murray, Jonathan's girlfriend. She starts staying with her best friend, Lucy Westenra, and one day notices Lucy sleep walking until she reaches their favorite bench on the top of a hill (or cliff) and red eyes floating near her. A day or two before Lucy's sleepwalking, Mina mentions an article from the newspaper about a boat washed ashore with a dead seaman. A few days (or weeks, idr) later, Mina goes to I don't remember exactly where to pick up Jonathan from a hospital (or mental institute; Dracula was too much). Some time during then, three men (Arthur Holmwood, John Seward, and Quincey Morris) propose to Lucy on the same day at different times (iirc). She accepts Arthur's proposal. Shift to Seward, who mostly mentions one of his patient's (Renfield) odd behavior...or mentally about gaining immortality. Some time during this, Lucy gets sicker and sicker so Jack (Seward's nickname) calls for Abraham Van Helsing. Van Helsing, noticing that Lucy's condition is similar to that of a vampire's victim, tries to counteract but is counteracted by different outside forces like Lucy's mother, albeit unconsciously. Lucy dies and a "bloofer" (beautiful) lady starts appearing in town, kidnapping children and leaving them unconscious, if found. Van Helsing tells the three men in Lucy's life that she is the bloofer lady and must be destroyed so they head on to her catacomb/mausoleum, and have Arthur pierce her heart with a wooden stick while Van Helsing and Jack proceed to cut her head off. (Idr if they kept this a secret from Arthur, by now already called Lord Godalming after his father dies.) Later, Jonathan and Mina return to England (already married) and starts staying in Sewards' after learning about Lucy's death. Jonathan starts getting paranoid about seeing the count in town (in broad daylight no less) and was later confirmed by Renfield. The four (or five, idr if Godalming was here) men ventured to stop the count once and for all but at some point, the count bites Mina and she slowly turns into a vampire. At some point, the count tries to return to Transylvania and the five men, through Mina, learn about this and follow him in hot pursuit. They catch the count, pierce his heart and cut off his head and Mina is returned to humanity. In the end, Quincey dies of a mortal injury caused by a raid before getting to the count. Everyone lives separate lives and Mina and Jonathan get a son named after the all the men who went against Dracula but called Quincey, for short because he was born the same day Quincey Morris died.