The debate about science versus pseudo science is so prevalent in Dracula because of it’s place in Victorian era literature. As a part of the industrial revolution, we see the scientific method and many other sciences becoming far more developed and able to explain a larger multitude of different phenomenon. When you combine this with the fact that in many of the works we have read including, Dracula, Lady Audley’s Secret, and The Hound of the Baskervilles, feature a diminishing role for conventional religion, the role for spiritualism becomes more apparent. In Lady Audley’s Secret, the robes of the priests are found dusty and old and unworn for a long period of time, while in Dracula, Drs. Seward and Van Helsing attempt to save lives through the use of advanced medical techniques (though somewhat flawed ones). This lack of belief in conventional religion could very well have precipitated the rise of spiritualism as Diniejko writes that “many Victorians particularly those who had begun to abandon conventional religion, fervently believed in spiritualism.” The priest robes that are clearly old and unused in Lady Audley’s Secret are indicative of the decline of the very conventional religion that kept spiritualism at bay. Spiritualism is also extremely prevalent in Dracula as the entire plot of the story is based off of pagan and spiritual beliefs. The attempts by Van Helsing to use new scientific and medical means to cure Lucy fail and they are forced to fight spiritualism with conventional religion in the form of wafers and crosses. Stoker and Braddon land on opposite sides of the debate, while Braddon fights spiritualism with the science and deductive reasoning of the character Robert Audley, Stoker favors fighting back by re-embracing the role of conventional religion by showing off the ineffectiveness of science to explain the story of Dracula.