“Do you mean to say, Professor Van Helsing, that you would bring Mina, in her sad case and tainted as she is with that devil’s illness, right into the jaws of his death-trap? Not for the world! Not for Heaven or Hell!” He became almost speechless for a minute, and then went on:--
Dracula
By Bram Stoker
Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. The narrative is related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles. It has no single protagonist and opens with English solicitor Jonathan Harker taking a business trip to stay at the castle of a Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula.
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- Project Gutenberg eBook #345 — English text of the 1897 novel
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- Wakened and Speaking
- The Tunnel of Trees
- Moonlight and the Vampire's Kiss
- A Last Memorandum
- Madness and a Hidden Clue
- One Word Between Life and Soul
- Into the Enemy's Country
- A Promise No One Wants to Make
- The Wolf at the Window
- Night on the Water
- Corpse at the Helm
- Mina Reclaims the Lead
- The Circle and the Laugh
- The Figure at the Bedside
- A Sudden Fury
- When the Professor Breaks
- Marked Unclean
- A predator learning our ways
- A Desperate Raid
- Approaching the Castle
- Blood, Power, Possession
- The Scar That Demands Silence
- Mina's Change
- The Fragile Thread of Memory
- The Mountains Close In
- Only the Beginning
- Ministers Against Monsters
- A mouth at the throat
- The Wound That Silenced Her
- Marked by Time
- The Vampire's Limits
- Her Awakening
- No Reflection
- The Life-Eating Maniac
- He Offers Himself
- Figures in the Snow
- Scoffing at the Small Things
- Three Shadowless Women
- Act While the Sun Gives Courage
- A memory of blood
- Grey Day, Growing Dread
- The Empty Coffin
- Scar of Innocence
- The Third Vault
- Night in the Churchyard
- If She Be Not Dead
- Moved in the Night
- Soul as Butterfly
- Frozen at the Fire
- A Choice of Blood
- Not for Heaven or Hell
- A Throat Bared in Horror
- The Ring of Wafer
- Garlic, Moonlight, and a Bat
- The Fear He Hides
- Garlic and Sleep
- Silence Like a Painted Ocean
- The Ship with No Living Hand
- A Prisoner's Strategy
- Marriage and the unread book
- A Warning About Sleep
- When Death Is Considered Mercy
- Dawn's Vanishing
- The Man Who Licked the Blood
- A Desperate Vow
- Woken by the Night
- The Count's Leap
- She Must Go With You
- The Flash of a Knife
- The Searchlight and the Gale
- A Grave Vow
- Night of the devouring sea
- A Ritual That Changes Her
- Dust and a Peaceful Face
- Marked and Compelled
- Blood, Duty, and the Dead Un-Dead
- The Name That Shatters
- The Wind That Smells of Death
- The Mist That Moves
- A Prayer of Vengeance
- Desperate plea for release
- The Wreck and the Vanished Dog
- The look that terrifies
- Love that could kill me
- Moonlight and a White Figure
- We May Never Meet Again
- The Small Holes in the Throats
- No Souls — A Cruel Kindness
- It Was Worth Dying
- Lucy in the Moonlight
- Two Punctures
- The Women in the Mist
- A Promise Between Two
- Silence After the Wail
- Might She Be Un-Dead?
- The Count's Fury
- Mark the Box
- A man on the castle wall
- What It Means to Fail
- Van Helsing's Ashen Face