“Dracula” by Bram Stoker (post 4): Mina tells vampire hunters that Dracula has multiple personality, and they will kill “Hyde” so “Jekyll” can go to heaven.

“I know that you must fight—that you must destroy even as you destroyed the false Lucy so that the true Lucy might live hereafter; but it is not a work of hate. That poor soul who has wrought all this misery is the saddest case of all. Just think what will be his joy when he too is destroyed in his worser part that his better part may have spiritual immortality” (1, p. 269).

Since none of the other characters disputes the above argument, the novel explains Dracula and vampires as cases of multiple personality, except that its treatment is neither psychotherapy nor exorcism, but a stake through the heart and beheading.

1. Bram Stoker. Dracula [1897]. Edited by Nina Auerbach and David J. Skal. New York, W. W. Norton, 1997.