Percentages are cumulative by word count through the full novel (~160,000 words), in Dracula Daily's chronological order.
| Date | Notable content | Progress | % Done |
|---|---|---|---|
| May | |||
| May3 | Jonathan arrives in Bistritz | 1.5% | |
| May4 | Jonathan's journal: St. George's Eve | 2.8% | |
| May5 | Jonathan arrives at Castle Dracula | 5.2% | |
| May7 | Jonathan's journal: morning after | 7.0% | |
| May8 | Jonathan discovers no reflection in the mirror | 8.9% | |
| May9 | Mina's first letter to Lucy | 9.6% | |
| May12today | Jonathan's midnight history lesson with Dracula | 11.5% | |
| May15 | Jonathan watches Count crawl down the castle wall | 12.5% | |
| May16 | Jonathan encounters the three women | 14.4% | |
| May18 | Jonathan investigates the locked room | 14.9% | |
| May19 | Jonathan forced to write three post-dated letters | 15.6% | |
| May24 | Lucy's letter: three proposals in one day! | 16.9% | |
| May25 | Seward's diary begins; Quincey's letter to Arthur | 17.8% | |
| May26 | Arthur's telegram | 18.0% | |
| May28 | Jonathan tries to send letters via the Szgany | 18.9% | |
| May31 | Jonathan's papers and clothes are stolen | 19.6% | |
| June | |||
| Jun5 | Seward diary: Renfield's fly obsession begins | 20.4% | |
| Jun17 | Jonathan: the leiter-wagons arrive at the castle | 21.2% | |
| Jun18 | Seward diary: Renfield graduates to spiders | 21.7% | |
| Jun24 | Jonathan watches Count leave disguised in his clothes | 22.6% | |
| Jun25 | Jonathan's daring escape attempt down the castle wall | 23.5% | |
| Jun29 | Jonathan's final post-dated letter date | 24.3% | |
| Jun30 | Jonathan's last diary entry — escape or die | 25.2% | |
| July | |||
| Jul1 | Seward diary: Renfield deliberately eats a blow-fly | 25.8% | |
| Jul8 | Seward diary: 'there is method in his madness' | 26.2% | |
| Jul19 | Seward diary: Renfield desperately wants a kitten | 26.8% | |
| Jul20 | Seward diary: Renfield has eaten all his sparrows | 27.3% | |
| Jul24 | Mina arrives at Whitby; meets old Mr. Swales | 29.2% | |
| Jul26 | Mina's journal: growing anxiety for Jonathan | 29.7% | |
| Jul27 | Mina's journal: Lucy begins sleepwalking | 30.3% | |
| August | |||
| Aug1 | Mina: storm gathering; Seward: Renfield loses interest in pets | 31.2% | |
| Aug3 | Mina's journal: still no news from Jonathan | 31.8% | |
| Aug6 | Mina: Mr. Swales grows serious; storm signals everywhere | 32.6% | |
| Aug8 | The Demeter arrives! Dailygraph article + captain's log | 36.8% | |
| Aug9 | Aftermath: the dog found dead; cargo shipped to Carfax | 37.7% | |
| Aug10 | The captain's funeral; old Mr. Swales found dead | 38.5% | |
| Aug11 | Mina finds Lucy asleep on the cliff at midnight | 40.0% | |
| Aug12 | Lucy tries the locked door in her sleep | 40.5% | |
| Aug13 | Lucy sits up in bed pointing at the window; a bat flits past | 41.0% | |
| Aug14 | Lucy murmurs: 'His red eyes again' | 41.6% | |
| Aug15 | Arthur's father improves; Lucy's wedding date set | 42.1% | |
| Aug17 | Lucy visibly fading; the boxes shipped to Carfax | 43.1% | |
| Aug18 | Lucy better; Mina writes from their churchyard seat | 43.8% | |
| Aug19 | News of Jonathan at last! Seward: Renfield suddenly excited | 45.0% | |
| Aug20 | Seward: Renfield grows strangely calm at moonrise | 45.6% | |
| Aug21 | Carter & Paterson confirm the boxes are delivered | 45.9% | |
| Aug23 | Seward: Renfield won't escape; a bat flies west | 46.3% | |
| Aug24 | Mina writes from Budapest; Lucy's own diary begins | 47.5% | |
| Aug25 | Lucy's diary: scratching or flapping at the window | 47.9% | |
| Aug30 | Lucy's letter to Mina: 'I am quite restored' | 48.8% | |
| Aug31 | Arthur's letter to Seward requesting he examine Lucy | 49.5% | |
| September | |||
| Sep1 | Arthur summoned to his ailing father; asks Seward to act | 49.9% | |
| Sep2 | Seward's letter to Arthur; Van Helsing's reply — coming at once | 51.2% | |
| Sep3 | Seward writes after Van Helsing's first examination of Lucy | 52.2% | |
| Sep4 | Seward: Renfield's noon paroxysm; Van Helsing studies Lucy | 53.1% | |
| Sep5 | Telegrams: Lucy much improved | 53.4% | |
| Sep6 | Telegram: 'terrible change for the worse — come at once' | 53.8% | |
| Sep7 | Van Helsing arrives at Liverpool St; the real work begins | 55.0% | |
| Sep8 | First transfusion — Arthur gives his blood for Lucy | 56.5% | |
| Sep9 | Lucy up and cheerful; Seward rests in the next room | 57.9% | |
| Sep10 | Van Helsing finds Lucy ghostly white; second transfusion | 59.5% | |
| Sep11 | Garlic arrives from Haarlem; Van Helsing's elaborate night ritual | 60.3% | |
| Sep12 | Lucy's diary: 'I never liked garlic before tonight' | 61.0% | |
| Sep13 | Mrs. Westenra removes the garlic; third transfusion needed | 62.5% | |
| Sep17 | Lucy's diary: four days of peace — feeling herself again | 63.4% | |
| Sep18 | Mrs. Westenra opens a window again; another crisis | 64.6% | |
| Sep19 | Van Helsing gives his own blood; the fourth transfusion | 65.6% | |
| Sep20 | Seward diary: a wolf escapes from the Zoological Gardens | 66.6% | |
| Sep21 | The wolf at Lucy's window; Mrs. Westenra dies of shock | 67.4% | |
| Sep22 | Lucy's death — a long and harrowing night | 69.4% | |
| Sep23 | The day after; Mina arrives in London; Van Helsing reads the letters | 70.7% | |
| Sep24 | Van Helsing and Mina meet; Jonathan's journal handed over | 72.0% | |
| Sep25 | The 'Bloofer Lady' press reports; Van Helsing proposes staking | 73.4% | |
| Sep26 | Seward and Van Helsing visit Lucy's tomb (first visit) | 74.6% | |
| Sep27 | Van Helsing returns alone; the Host is placed | 75.5% | |
| Sep29 | The child returned; the 'Bloofer Lady' identity confirmed | 76.5% | |
| October | |||
| Oct1 | Mina's journal; the gang assembles and plans | 77.2% | |
| Oct3 | The staking of Un-Dead Lucy in her tomb | 79.5% | |
| Oct4 | The whole group meets at Seward's; Mina types everything up | 80.5% | |
| Oct5 | Jonathan's journal: Mina's extraordinary organizing work | 81.7% | |
| Oct6 | Night raid on Carfax: the earth-boxes scattered | 82.8% | |
| Oct7 | Mina hypnotized at sunrise; Renfield's strange urgent request | 84.0% | |
| Oct8 | Mina is cut off from the group's plans — for her own good | 85.0% | |
| Oct9 | Renfield attacked in his room — Dracula has entered the asylum | 85.8% | |
| Oct10 | Seward: Renfield's dying revelation; Mina's horror discovered | 86.5% | |
| Oct11 | Jonathan's journal: tracking the Czarina Catherine | 87.3% | |
| Oct12 | Mina hypnotized: water lapping, chains rattling, moving east | 87.9% | |
| Oct13 | Seward diary; Mina still senses the ship | 88.4% | |
| Oct14 | The ship identified; the remaining earth-boxes traced | 88.9% | |
| Oct15 | Tracing Dracula's money; the location of the last box | 89.6% | |
| Oct16 | Mina's sunrise hypnosis: still aboard the ship | 90.3% | |
| Oct17 | Van Helsing's memorandum; the group's strategy meeting | 91.2% | |
| Oct18 | The group splits to travel toward Galatz; Mina comes too | 92.0% | |
| Oct19 | Mina's journal: on the train, heading east | 92.6% | |
| Oct20 | Jonathan's journal: further travel through Hungary | 93.1% | |
| Oct24 | At Galatz; gathering local intelligence about the box | 93.7% | |
| Oct25 | The river chase begins up the Sereth | 94.3% | |
| Oct26 | The group divides; Seward and Arthur pursue by water | 94.9% | |
| Oct27 | Jonathan's journal: the chase continues up-river | 95.4% | |
| Oct28 | Closing in; Mina and Van Helsing head overland to the castle | 95.9% | |
| Oct29 | Mina's journal: Van Helsing's account of the vampire women | 96.5% | |
| Oct30 | Near the castle; Mina records the extraordinary journey | 97.1% | |
| Oct31 | At the castle; Van Helsing stakes the three women | 97.6% | |
| November | |||
| Nov1 | Seward and Quincey intercept the Szgany and the box | 98.2% | |
| Nov2 | Jonathan's journal: the final chase, snow beginning to fall | 98.7% | |
| Nov3 | Mina: crossing the Carpathians | 99.0% | |
| Nov4 | The final confrontation — Dracula is destroyed; Quincey dies | 99.4% | |
| Nov5 | Mina: the immediate aftermath | 99.6% | |
| Nov6 | Note from Seward | 99.8% | |
| Nov7 | Jonathan's note: seven years later — the happy epilogue | 100.0% | |