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Dracula

Bram Stoker · novel, 1897·12 hrs in the original·original at Project Gutenberg
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  • Dracula climbs down the castle wall like a lizard. Harker watches from his window on 15 May and writes that the Count moves face-first down the sheer stone, his cloak spreading out around him like great wings, just as a lizard moves along a wall.
  • Three vampire brides nearly claim Harker in his bed. The fair one bends over his throat while he lies still, feeling both dread and a burning desire to be kissed; Stoker describes her licking her lips and lapping her white sharp teeth before Dracula throws her off him.
  • Arthur stakes Lucy while Van Helsing reads the burial service. Van Helsing calls it a mercy-bearing stake, not murder. The body in the coffin writhes and gives a hideous screech as Arthur drives it home, then finally lies still and Stoker writes, the terrible task was over.
  • Van Helsing finds Dracula forcing Mina to drink his blood. The men break down the bedroom door to find the Count gripping Mina by the neck, forcing her mouth to a wound on his own chest. Stoker compares it to a child forcing a kitten to drink from a saucer of milk.
  • A wafer scar brands Mina unclean on her forehead. After the attack she cries, Unclean, unclean, and refuses to let Jonathan kiss her again, certain the mark will not fade until Judgment Day.
  • Harker's knife and Morris's bowie kill Dracula at sunset. As the last light hits the snow, Jonathan shears through the Count's throat with his Kukri knife while Quincey Morris drives a bowie knife into his heart in the same instant. The body crumbles into dust before their eyes.
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•Why it earns a slot

Why it earns a slot: it invented the modern vampire novel and tells the whole story through diaries, letters, and phonograph recordings, so the reader never knows more than the terrified characters do.

An English solicitor travels to a remote Transylvanian castle to close a property deal and discovers his host is a centuries-old predator who feeds on blood and will not stay in his grave.

This distillation is written from the freely available original, which is always the better read when you have the time: Project Gutenberg.

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