Dracula’s ending confesses that the monster’s hybrid blood cannot be fully purged.

Evidence

But there is a problem. Although Mina Harker lives, she has been infected with the monster’s blood. The book ends with Mina giving birth to a child that may be partdracul, suggesting that miscegenation will go on. This pensive ending to the story of Dracula establishes the model for contemporary representations of hybridity, found in horror and science fiction literature and film to this day. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 558

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• XREF: Directly connects to the reader’s research: the ‘monster lets its makers avoid seeing’ question — Stoker’s anxious ending admits the contamination persists despite the heroes’ extermination fantasy.