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Bram Stoker. Dracula (Bram Stoker) (Literary Thoughts Edition)
Dracula
Literary Thoughts Edition presents. Dracula, by Bram Stoker
CHAPTER I - JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL
CHAPTER II – JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL – continued
CHAPTER III – JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL – continued
CHAPTER IV – JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL – continued
CHAPTER V – Letter from Miss Mina Murray to Miss Lucy Westenra
CHAPTER VI – MINA MURRAY’S JOURNAL
CHAPTER VII – CUTTING FROM “THE DAILYGRAPH,” 8 AUGUST
CHAPTER VIII – MINA MURRAY’S JOURNAL
CHAPTER IX – Letter, Mina Harker to Lucy Westenra
CHAPTER X – Letter, Dr. Seward to Hon. Arthur Holmwood
CHAPTER XI – Lucy Westenra’s Diary
CHAPTER XII – DR. SEWARD’S DIARY
CHAPTER XIII – DR. SEWARD’S DIARY – continued
CHAPTER XIV – MINA HARKER’S JOURNAL
CHAPTER XV – DR. SEWARD’S DIARY – continued
CHAPTER XVI – DR. SEWARD’S DIARY – continued
CHAPTER XVII – DR. SEWARD’S DIARY – continued
CHAPTER XVIII – DR. SEWARD’S DIARY
CHAPTER XIX – JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL
CHAPTER XX – JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL
CHAPTER XXI – DR. SEWARD’S DIARY
CHAPTER XXII – JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL
CHAPTER XXIII – DR. SEWARD’S DIARY
CHAPTER XXIV – DR. SEWARD’S PHONOGRAPH DIARY, SPOKEN BY VAN HELSING
CHAPTER XXV – DR. SEWARD’S DIARY
CHAPTER XXVI – DR. SEWARD’S DIARY
CHAPTER XXVII – MINA HARKER’S JOURNAL
NOTE
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By Bram Stoker
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. The impression I had was that we were leaving the West and entering the East; the most western of splendid bridges over the Danube, which is here of noble width and depth, took us among the traditions of Turkish rule.
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Suddenly, away on our left, I saw a faint flickering blue flame. The driver saw it at the same moment; he at once checked the horses, and, jumping to the ground, disappeared into the darkness. I did not know what to do, the less as the howling of the wolves grew closer; but while I wondered the driver suddenly appeared again, and without a word took his seat, and we resumed our journey. I think I must have fallen asleep and kept dreaming of the incident, for it seemed to be repeated endlessly, and now looking back, it is like a sort of awful nightmare. Once the flame appeared so near the road, that even in the darkness around us I could watch the driver’s motions. He went rapidly to where the blue flame arose – it must have been very faint, for it did not seem to illumine the place around it at all – and gathering a few stones, formed them into some device. Once there appeared a strange optical effect: when he stood between me and the flame he did not obstruct it, for I could see its ghostly flicker all the same. This startled me, but as the effect was only momentary, I took it that my eyes deceived me straining through the darkness. Then for a time there were no blue flames, and we sped onwards through the gloom, with the howling of the wolves around us, as though they were following in a moving circle.
At last there came a time when the driver went further afield than he had yet gone, and during his absence, the horses began to tremble worse than ever and to snort and scream with fright. I could not see any cause for it, for the howling of the wolves had ceased altogether; but just then the moon, sailing through the black clouds, appeared behind the jagged crest of a beetling, pine-clad rock, and by its light I saw around us a ring of wolves, with white teeth and lolling red tongues, with long, sinewy limbs and shaggy hair. They were a hundred times more terrible in the grim silence which held them than even when they howled. For myself, I felt a sort of paralysis of fear. It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.
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