The story's narrator and protagonist is an unnamed Englishman who is spending some time in Munich, Germany before traveling on to Transylvania as the guest of Count Dracula. Ignoring the warnings of a German coachman, the Englishman decides to go off on his own in the direction of a long-deserted village. The coachman says that the place is "unholy" and that it was abandoned because the dead did not stay truly dead there. There have been a number of adaptation of "Dracula's Guest" to other media. Those adaptations have, however, often been very loose.