Two diaries, one quarrel: Count Dracula writes from his crypt in Northbridge, Professor Van Helsing from his catacombs in Melbourne. Newest entries first.
In short: The Dracula Diaries are two comic, fictional journals: Count Dracula’s, from the Dracula escape room at Escape This Northbridge in Perth, and Professor Van Helsing’s, from the Van Helsing room at Escape This Melbourne CBD. They give away no puzzles, and every entry links to the real room facts.
Count Dracula is the villain of Dracula, a gothic horror escape room designed, built and run by Escape This; Professor Van Helsing is the hunter at the heart of its companion room, Van Helsing. Dracula plays at Escape This Northbridge in Perth and Van Helsing at Escape This Melbourne CBD, as separate rooms in one story world.
These diaries are fiction written by Escape This, loosely after the characters of Bram Stoker’s novel. They imagine both voices and add a bat of their own; the rooms’ stories only say that the Count’s tomb was found empty and that the hunter’s last letter admits he failed. No puzzle is given away.
Everything said outside the two voices (how many can play, age limits, what a session costs, how often teams get out) is drawn from Escape This’s live booking and game records and refreshed whenever this site is rebuilt.
Two rival comic diaries on this site. Count Dracula writes from his crypt in the Dracula room at Escape This Northbridge, Perth, and Professor Van Helsing from his catacombs in the Van Helsing room at Escape This Melbourne CBD. They cover the same story from opposite sides, answer each other and sit beside the real room facts.
No. Both diaries are fiction written by Escape This for fun. The Count and the Professor are the Dracula and Van Helsing escape rooms’ versions of characters from Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel, and the Count’s bat, Reginald, exists only in the diary. The facts beside each entry, such as ages, team sizes and addresses, are real.
No. Neither diarist writes down a puzzle or a solution. The entries describe the Dracula and Van Helsing stories, sets and house rules in character, so they are safe to read before you play either room, and each one links to the real answers about booking, ages and safety.
Only the two openings. Dracula opened at Escape This Northbridge on 28 October 2020 and Van Helsing at Escape This Melbourne CBD on 16 October 2026, according to Escape This’s booking records, and the diarists’ opening entries carry those dates. Every other date is picked for the story.
The Count’s Diary belongs to Dracula in Northbridge, Perth, and Van Helsing’s Diary to Van Helsing in Melbourne CBD. The archive lists both by date, labels every entry with its diarist and can show one diarist at a time; where both write about the same events, each entry links to the other’s side.
About once a month between them. Each new entry appears on its own date, written in the Dracula or Van Helsing voice beside the room facts it touches, so the archive grows through the year.
Book Dracula in Northbridge or take up Van Helsing’s relics in Melbourne. One hour, lantern light and a dead hunter’s notes.
