DRACULA

DRACULA

by Bram Stoker

*Dracula* is not just a story—it’s a journey into the heart of terror, where the boundaries of life and death blur, and one man’s fight for survival pulls you deeper into the darkness. Feel your pulse quicken as you experience the seductive power of the vampire that has haunted readers for generations.”.

Sneak Peek
We shuddered with horror. I could see by the tremulous light that even Van Helsing’s iron nerve had failed. Arthur was next to me, and if I had not seized his arm and held him up, he would have fallen.
When Lucy—I call the thing that was before us Lucy because it bore her shape—saw us she drew back with an angry snarl, such as a cat gives when taken unawares; then her eyes ranged over us. Lucy’s eyes in form and colour; but Lucy’s eyes unclean and full of hell-fire, instead of the pure, gentle orbs we knew. At that moment the remnant of my love passed into hate and loathing; had she then to be killed, I could have done it with savage delight. As she looked, her eyes blazed with unholy light, and the face became wreathed with a voluptuous smile. Oh, God, how it made me shudder to see it! With a careless motion, she flung to the ground, callous as a devil, the child that up to now she had clutched strenuously to her breast, growling over it as a dog growls over a bone. The child gave a sharp cry, and lay there moaning. There was a cold-bloodedness in the act which wrung a groan from Arthur; when she advanced to him with outstretched arms and a wanton smile, he fell back and hid his face in his hands.

Synopsis

In order to help with the purchase of a home close to London, Jonathan Harker, a recently certified English solicitor, visits Count Dracula’s castle in the Carpathian Mountains. Harker wanders the castle and comes across three female vampires, even though Dracula has warned him to stay in his room at night. After saving Harker, Dracula steps in and hands the women a little infant in a bag. Later, when Harker awakens in bed, he discovers that Dracula has abandoned him to the women and departed the castle. After escaping, Harker is discovered in a Budapest hospital in a disoriented state. In the meantime, Dracula transports crates of soil from his own country to England aboard the Demeter. The captain of the ship records his crew’s unexplained disappearances until he is the final survivor chained to helm to keep the ship on course. When the ship crashes.at Whitby, witnesses see an animal that looks like a big dog jump ashore…..

 

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