Dracula's London — the streets Bram Stoker still names
Piccadilly, the Heath, and the places beyond the walks — a quiet guide to the London in the novel, and the self-guided walk that follows it.
Think of Dracula and you may picture Transylvania, or Whitby’s abbey on the cliff. A large part of Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel is London: diaries, letters and newspaper cuttings dated to the day, set on streets you can still walk.
That is the London I put on a map for Dracula — London: two walks, the story on your phone, and every quotation checked against the book.
Piccadilly, in plain sight
Jonathan Harker sees the Count again on a hot afternoon, outside a jeweller’s on Piccadilly — grown young. Mina leads him into the Green Park. Later the Count buys a house in the same street, paying in notes, to hide boxes of earth in the middle of the West End.
Stoker’s number, 347 Piccadilly, never existed. The pin stands where the story puts it: beyond the Junior Constitutional Club, walking west, in the row facing the Green Park. When we are not sure, or a place is invented, the walk says so.
The first free stop of the experience is that meeting on Piccadilly. You can read the first three stops free before you buy.
Hampstead after dark
The second walk goes north: the Zoological Gardens and the wolf that got out, the Heath where the children spoke of a “bloofer lady”, Jack Straw’s Castle, the Spaniards. The newspapers treat it as comedy, then they do not. The reader already knows who was buried a few days before.
Thirteen places sit on the two walks; as many again lie beyond them, as far as Purfleet and Whitby — Carfax, the Lyceum, Stoker’s own Chelsea — for the couch as much as for the street.
How the walk is made
Every quotation is Stoker’s own words. Every place says how it stands to the story: real, fictional, or as near as can be told. Every picture says where it comes from; illustrations are marked as such.
Nothing to download. It opens in your phone’s browser. The story and its pictures can be saved for offline; the map needs a connection.
If you already love Victorian London, Sherlock Holmes — London shares the city — and the Lyceum — by design. Or give a walk to someone who is going.
Start on Piccadilly
Open Dracula — London, try the free preview, and stand where Harker gripped Mina’s arm. The book comes alive; the city means more.
I make these walks from Spain, out of love for books and travel. If you want to know who is behind Same Streets, read about the project.