Dracula

Bram Stoker · 1897 · Gothic / epistolary

AI probability VEYL scanned up to the first 60,000 words of the novel.

Why the number is interesting

Composed entirely of diary entries, letters, and telegrams — every voice a different character. VEYL scored it at 0%.

What VEYL saw

VEYL scored Dracula at 0% — clearly human, as expected. The novel's epistolary structure (dated diary entries, letters, telegrams from multiple characters) is the strongest possible anti-AI signal: personal timestamps, specific place-names, transit details, and real-time observations. The opening entry alone ("3 May. Bistritz.—Left Munich at 8:35 P.M....") contains more human specificity than most AI-generated pages. Each subsequent voice in the novel — Jonathan Harker, Mina, Van Helsing, Dr. Seward — reads as a different specific person with different priorities and vocabulary. AI-generated prose has trouble producing even one convincing diary entry. Dracula is 160,000 words of them.

The novel's opening

A short excerpt — VEYL scored the first ~60,000 words of the full text.

3 May. Bistritz.—Left Munich at 8:35 P.M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late. Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the streets. I feared to go very far from the station, as we had arrived late and would start as near the correct time as possible.

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