Carfax Abbey

Carfax was the home that Dracula purchased through Jonathan Harker near London, England. Again, Carfax was a fictional residence in an otherwise very real area. It was located near Purfleet. And it was here that Dracula would come to meet the lovely Mina Murray, and spread his vampiric reign of terror beyond Slavic soil.

Movie adaptations of the book combined the asylum Stoker had located next to Carfax with the residence itself, and it became known as Carfax Abbey. This provided a much richer environment in which to stalk the Count. The most obvious example of this is in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), where the vampire hunters, led by Van Helsing, enter the Abbey to destroy the crates of native soil that Dracula had brought over with him.

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