Harry said. “There’s more,” I said. Harker had also written an afterword to The Forest. Reading it made the connections between the story and our present day descent into hell even more clear. In it, Harker postulated a connection between Dracula and The Forest, laying out the case that Bram Stoker’s Dracula was based on the Paspahegh’s Drakho. First, he noted his own connection to the material—a strange coincidence that had no practical value as factual evidence, but which had to be addressed nonetheless. How could it be that he, Jonathan Harker, who bore the same name as one of the main characters in Dracula, should be the one to discover the origin of the Dracula myth? There was no answer to that question, except that it was a coincidence, one of those strange, grand ones we’ve all experienced in our own lives. He made it clear that he didn’t believe some mystical force had brought him to the parchment pages hidden in the Bible.
