Quincey Morris

In the novel

Quincey Morris, a wealthy Texan, is one of Lucy Westenra’s three suitors. He stays on good terms with the other two, Arthur Holmwood and Dr. John Seward, even after Lucy picks Arthur, and also with Jonathan Harker, who marries Lucy’s friend Mina. He always carries a Bowie knife and calls himself a rough fellow who spins tall tales. He gives Lucy his blood last before she dies. Unlike most of the group, he keeps no diary. He already knows about blood drinkers: in the Pampas, he once shot his own horse after vampire bats drained it overnight. At the story’s end, he and Jonathan Harker kill Count Dracula. Quincey is badly hurt in the fight and dies soon after. The Harkers later name their son Quincey in his honor.

In media

Author Justin Gustainis wrote a series featuring a great grandson of the Dracula character also named Quincey Morris, portrayed as a widower whose wife died in childbirth, working as a supernatural investigator. In 1991, P. N. Elrod published the short story "The Wind Breathes Cold," in which Morris, killed during the destruction of Dracula, awakens as a vampire due to an old affair with a vampire woman. Dracula tells him they belong to different vampire species, and Morris returns to the castle to adjust.

Elrod expanded this into a 2001 novel where Morris travels to Paris and London to convince his friends he is not evil. In Tony Lee's graphic novel Harker, set six months after Dracula, Quincey appears as a ghost and sacrifices his soul to save Mina's child in a battle with Dracula's spirit. Edward M. Erdelac's epistolary sequel Terovolas has Van Helsing return Morris's remains to his family ranch in Sorefoot, Texas, where the professor becomes involved in a supernatural incident with Quincey's estranged brother Cole.