Beginning of Stoker’s DRACULA, as it would be written today:

[raccoon]

Jonathan Harker's Journal

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.

Had I but known then what awaited me--the horrors of Castle Dracula, the horrors that would follow me back home to England and would end or threaten the lives of those I hold dear, I would have gotten on the train back home to England with all possible alacrity.


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[dimbear]

1. If Stoker was alive today, his writing would be much clearer, because syphilis

can be cured, caught early enough. If you've read his later works you know what I'm talking about.