There he lay looking as if youth had been half-renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron grey; the cheeks were fuller, and the white skin seemed ruby-red underneath; the mouth was redder than ever,for on the lips were gouts of fresh blood, which trickled from the corners of the mouth and ran over the chin and neck. Even the deep, burning eyes seemed set amongst swollen flesh, for the lids and pouches underneath were bloated. It seemed as if the whole awful creature were simply gorged with blood; he lay like a filthy leech, exhausted with his repletion.

Dracula is one of the greatest horror smiles in English literature. Bram Stoker first began taking notes for it on 8 March 1890 while on holiday in Whitby, origin of Captain Cook's famous Pacific voyages. He entered his last note six years later and published the novel with Constable in the Diamond Jubilee Year i897, dedicating it to his 'dear friend Hommy-Beg', the best-selling novelist Hall Caine ('Hommy Beg', meaning 'little Tommy', is a Manx term of endearment). Late-Victorian audiences loved vampire stories and, although no American publisher accepted it until Doubleday & McClure in I899, the novel almost immediately sold well both in England and later on the Continent, its first translation,Makt Mgrkanna meaning The Prince of Darkness, appearing in Iceland in 1898. Since that beginning, Stoker's story, which appeared in a poor quality yellow binding due to the extra cost involved in a last-minute change to its title, has been translated into forty-three more languages.

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5 Letter from Miss Mina Murray

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7 Cutting from the Dailygraph, 8August

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9 Letter, Mina Harker to Lucy Westenra

10 Letter, Dr Seward to Hon. Arthur Holmwood

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