 Echoing De Roos's discovery of parallels between "Makt myrkranna" and Stoker's early notes, Stoker biographer David J. Skal mentioned that Stoker's notes list the character of a police inspector.As no such police inspector is featured in "Dracula", Ásmundsson could have only learned about him from using an early draft of "Dracula" as his source, Skal claimed.Similarly, he believed the Count's deaf and mute housekeeper to be taken from such a draft.