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A Visit to
Dracula’s Castle
I heard a
heavy step approaching behind the great door, and saw through the chinks the
gleam of coming light. Then there was the sound of rattling chains and the
clanking of massive bolts drawn back. A key was turned with a loud grating
noise, and the great door swung back.
Within stood
a tall old man, clean-shaven but for a long, white moustache, and dressed in
black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
He held in his
hand an old, silver lamp in which the flame burned without a
chimney or glass of any kind, throwing long quivering shadows as it flickered
in the draught of the open door. The old man motioned me in with his right hand
with a courtly gesture, saying in excellent English but with a strange accent,
‘Welcome to my house! Enter freely and of your own willl’
He did not
step forward to meet me, but stood like a statue, as though he were turned into
stone. The instant however that 1 stepped over the threshold, he stepped
forward and, holding out his hand, grasped mine with a strength, which made me
wince. His hand felt as cold as ice —
more like the hand of a dead man than a living one.
Again he
said, ‘Welcome to my house. I am Dracula and I bid you enter. Come in, Mr.
Harker, the night air is chill and you must eat and rest.’
12 May
I came out of
my room and went up stone stairs to a window where I could look out over Sheer
space to the opposite wall of the castle. What I saw was the Count’s head
coming out of a window.
Then I saw
the whole body of the man slowly emerge from the window and begin to crawl down
the castle wall over that dreadful sheer abyss, face down, with his cloak
spreading out about him like great wings. I saw his fingers and toes grasp the
corners of the stones where the mortar had eroded, and in this way he moved
downwards with great speed – like a lizard darting along a wall. Is this a man
or some sort of monster that looks like a man.
I am filled with the dread of this horrible place. I am in awful fear
and there is no escape for me. I am surrounded with terrors that I dare not
think of….
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