‚I felt a warm rasping at my throat, then came a consciousness of the awful truth, which chilled me to the heart and sent the blood surging up through my brain.‘
In this intriguing literary fragment—published seventeen years after Bram Stoker’s most famous novel—an English visitor to southern Germany suffers a terrifying ordeal on
Walpurgis Nacht: the night when, according to local tradition, supernatural horrors are set free to walk the earth. But perhaps most chilling of all is the appearance of a mysterious telegram purporting to guarantee the Englishman’s safety, a telegram sent by a certain ‚Dracula’…
Über den Autor
Bram Stoker (1847–1912) was the author of the enormously influential 1897 novel Dracula. Among his other works of fiction are The Mystery of the Sea and The Lady of the Shroud.