John Seward - in Other Works

In Other Works

In the alternate history novel Anno-Dracula, where Van Helsing fails and Dracula becomes the ruler of Britain, Seward becomes the murderer well known as "Jack the Ripper", whose targets are vampire prostitutes who remind him of Lucy (Seward is actually indirectly responsible for this new timeline; an injury he sustained to his hand in a confrontation with Renfield means that Seward hesitates when they discover Dracula attacking Mina, resulting in Dracula killing Johnathan Harker and Quincey Morris before escaping with Mina). Seward is finally killed after suffering a complete mental breakdown.

In the comic play Dracula (Undressed) (1975) Dr. Seward runs a Sanitorium for the Soused, and is Lucy's father. As he capitulates to Dracula's will, he becomes the real villain in the story.

Seward appears in Dracula the Un-dead by Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt. In the novel, set 25 years after Dracula, Seward has become a morphine addict obsessed with destroying the undead. At some point before the events of the story, Seward comes into contact with the Romanian actor Vladimir Basarab, who assists him in hunting the vampire Countess Elizabeth Bathory. After chasing Bathory and her servants from Marseilles to Paris, Seward confronts Bathory's servants in Paris, only to be killed by Bathory's carriage.