There are increasing amounts of strange one liners occurring in this book like "They shan't rob me! I'll fight for my Lord and Master!" In this case this was said by Renfield, who was taking part in some experiments.
Also a lot of people seem to be dying. Lucy's mother dies from a heart attack that came from the shock of the wolf incident. This was also because she was in a fragile state anyway. Also Mr Hawkins, who was staying with Mina and the returned Jonathan, then died suddenly. Finally, Lucy has been seen to have slightly different characteristics like having long sharper teeth which is what we now know to be a major characteristic of a typical vampire. Also the way she dies is very unlike Lucy and shocking. She asks to kiss Van Helsing, which we know would be a bad thing as she would probably want to suck his blood, but he then refuses and she has a crazy anger fit that is very shocking and then she dies which is very unexpected.
There are certain typical references to Gothic ways of describing things like the abandoned house. This fits because an abandoned house will be lonely and have no one home and be dark and mysterious which ticks pretty much all the boxes.
The effective part of the last chapter is that when Van Helsing says that "It is only the beginning" it makes the reader want to read on.
Very exciting!
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Yes - good point about Van Helsing's line! When they've gone through so much - to be told it's only the beginning is a definite cliffhanger!
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