the opportunity presents itself. There is also a fourth bride mentioned in the novel, Jana, but who is ultimately killed by her and Dracula's son Alucard shortly after her resurrection as a vampire. In the novel The Third Bride by Todd Davis, the Dracula story is told from the perspective of the youngest bride, Serephine de Bachaumont, a minor French noble who flees France during the Revolution. She encounters the Count in Romania 80 years before the events in Dracula. The two other brides are Parysatis and Maryushka. Serephine enlists the aid of Jonathan Harker while attempting to overthrow Dracula. The novel tells the story of the Brides' interaction with each other and Dracula, finally culminating in the vampire hunters' race to Varna and Van Helsing's assault on Castle Dracula. In the anthology Brides of Dracula: The Legend of Dracula Book Two, Dracula's many brides include Lady Katya, Elizabeth Bathory, Mircalla Karnstein, Lady Lenore, Ulrica Dolingen and others. The Brides appear in Jonathan Green's ACE gamebook Dracula: Curse of the Vampire'', here named Lilith, Lamia and Melusina. They are described as three seeresses who seek refuge with Dracula and are turned into his vampiric consorts. At one point, if the player takes the role of Jonathan Harker, he can see the Brides transform into monstrous forms: The eldest Bride into a living corpse, the other two into a snakewoman and a werebat, respectively. References Dracula characters Literary characters introduced in 1897 Fictional characters without a name Fictional henchmen Fictional polyamorous characters Fictional princesses Fictional Romanian people Fictional trios Fictional vampires Female literary villains Female horror film villains