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[ammeyers]

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[doronjosama]

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[draculalive]

Note

[Properly we should wait seven years for this post, but I'll go ahead and give it to you now. Thanks for reading! -- DE]

Seven years ago we all went through the flames; and the happiness of some of us since then is, we think, well worth the pain we endured. It is an added joy to Mina and to me that our boy's birthday is the same day as that on which Quincey Morris died. His mother holds, I know, the secret belief that some of our brave friend's spirit has passed into him. His bundle of names links all our little band of men together; but we call him Quincey.

In the summer of this year we made a journey to Transylvania, and went over the old ground which was, and is, to us so full of vivid and terrible memories. It was almost impossible to believe that the things which we had seen with our own eyes and heard with our own ears were living truths. Every trace of all that had been was blotted out. The castle stood as before, reared high above a waste of desolation.

When we got home we were talking of the old time -- which we could all look back on without despair, for Godalming and Seward are both happily married. I took the papers from the safe where they had been ever since our return so long ago. We were struck with the fact, that in all the mass of material of which the record is composed, there is hardly one authentic document; nothing but a mass of typewriting, except the later note-books of Mina and Seward and myself, and Van Helsing's memorandum. We could hardly ask any one, even did we wish to, to accept these as proofs of so wild a story. Van Helsing summed it all up as he said, with our boy on his knee:---

"We want no proofs; we ask none to believe us! This boy will some day know what a brave and gallant woman his mother is. Already he knows her sweetness and loving care; later on he will understand how some men so loved her, that they did dare much for her sake."

JONATHAN HARKER.

[ofgraveconcern]

17th June 1462, Vlad III, known to history as Vlad the Impaler, leads a night raid to the camp of Ottoman Turkish leader Mehmed II. The attack fails to assassinate Mehmed, and Vlad is forced to flee Wallachia as Mehmed invades his homeland. The failed raid later becomes known as the ‘Night Attack at Târgoviște’. After capturing Vlad’s capital Târgoviște, Mehmed comes upon the horrific scene of 23,844 impaled Turks whom Vlad had killed during his invasion of Bulgaria. It is suggested by some historians that Vlad the Impaler was the model for Bram Stoker's Count Dracula. While the direct influence is disputed, it is certain however, that the name for Stoker’s character did come from Vlad the Impaler, whose actual name was Vlad Dracula. You are invited to follow @ofgrave.concern for more tales of the gothic, strange and macabre. #dracula #vampire #halloween #draculalive #vampires #horror #draculalives #scary #vampirelife #vladtheimpaler #vladdracula #vladdraculatepes #vladtepes #romanian #transylvania #romanianhistory #bramstoker #bramstokersdracula #bramstokerdracula #draculaday #drácula #wallachia #countdracula #impaler #impaled #darkhistory #gothichistory #macabre #gothicstyle https://www.instagram.com/p/CQRI_4_HiIK/?utm_medium=tumblr

[comicsnmorenj]

repost from @comicbookscollect . Sweet Dracula cover, harder to find #1 #comic #comics #comicbook #comicbooks #comiccollector #comiccollection #comicbookcollector #comicbookcollection #marvel #marvelcomics #igcomicfam #igcomics #igcomicbookfamily #mag #magz #magazine #dracula #draculalives https://www.instagram.com/p/B0bp9gNhoqg/?igshid=1l9k72o1n05hu

[racketpunk]

Anyone hear the umpire in the #Konta vs #kvitova match? thought #ChristopherLee died years ago but he's apparently making the calls #KvitováKonta #Wimbledon2019 #DraculaLives #Dooku #tennis #lol #racketpunk #racquetpunk #dracula #lovemeansnothing #instapic (at Wimbledon) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzqOwBlnOn6/?igshid=isrj886140yq

[brine-and-old-bones]

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[siriuslygrimm]

Creatures of Cinema

#BOOKREVIEW - Creatures of Cinema - #DraculaLives #blog

Classic cinematic creatures transcend the immortality of the silver screen and become a haunting reality in Robert Ryan’s Dracula Lives.

Adam Quinn is a lifelong fan of horror films, with a fascination for Dracula and Universal Studios in particular. When he received an invitation to the remote abode of a man who worked on the 1931 Dracula film, he jumps at the opportunity to meet this man and…

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Dr. Seward's Diary.

28 September. -- It is wonderful what a good night's sleep will do for one. Yesterday I was almost willing to accept Van Helsing's monstrous ideas; but now they seem to start out lurid before me as outrages on common sense. I have no doubt that he believes it all. I wonder if his mind can have become in any way unhinged. Surely there must be some rational explanation of all these mysterious things. Is it possible that the Professor can have done it himself? He is so abnormally clever that if he went off his head he would carry out his intent with regard to some fixed idea in a wonderful way. I am loath to think it, and indeed it would be almost as great a marvel as the other to find that Van Helsing was mad; but anyhow I shall watch him carefully. I may get some light on the mystery.

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Lucy Westenra's Diary

Hillingham, 24 August. -- I must imitate Mina, and keep writing things down. Then we can have long talks when we do meet. I wonder when it will be. I wish she were with me again, for I feel so unhappy. Last night I seemed to be dreaming again just as I was at Whitby. Perhaps it is the change of air, or getting home again. It is all dark and horrid to me, for I can remember nothing; but I am full of vague fear, and I feel so weak and worn out. When Arthur came to lunch he looked quite grieved when he saw me, and I hadn't the spirit to try to be cheerful. I wonder if I could sleep in mother's room to-night. I shall make an excuse and try.

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Mina Harker's Journal.

Later. -- A sad home-coming in every way -- the house empty of the dear soul who was so good to us; Jonathan still pale and dizzy under a slight relapse of his malady; and now a telegram from Van Helsing, whoever he may be:---

"You will be grieved to hear that Mrs. Westenra died five days ago, and that Lucy died the day before yesterday. They were both buried to-day."

Oh, what a wealth of sorrow in a few words! Poor Mrs. Westenra! poor Lucy! Gone, gone, never to return to us! And poor, poor Arthur, to have lost such sweetness out of his life! God help us all to bear our troubles.

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Dr. Seward's Diary.

Later. -- Sunset has come and gone. Fortunately it came at a time when there was no distraction; for had it occurred whilst we were at a station, we might not have secured the necessary calm and isolation. Mrs. Harker yielded to the hypnotic influence even less readily than this morning. I am in fear that her power of reading the Count's sensations may die away, just when we want it most. It seems to me that her imagination is beginning to work. Whilst she has been in the trance hitherto she has confined herself to the simplest of facts. If this goes on it may ultimately mislead us. If I thought that the Count's power over her would die away equally with her power of knowledge it would be a happy thought; but I am afraid that it may not be so. When she did speak, her words were enigmatical:---

"Something is going out; I can feel it pass me like a cold wind. I can hear, far off, confused sounds -- as of men talking in strange tongues, fierce-falling water, and the howling of wolves." She stopped and a shudder ran through her, increasing in intensity for a few seconds, till, at the end, she shook as though in a palsy. She said no more, even in answer to the Professor's imperative questioning. When she woke from the trance, she was cold, and exhausted, and languid; but her mind was all alert. She could not remember anything, but asked what she had said; when she was told, she pondered over it deeply for a long time and in silence.

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Dr. Seward's Diary.

30 September. -- Mr. Harker arrived at nine o'clock. He had got his wife's wire just before starting. He is uncommonly clever, if one can judge from his face, and full of energy. If this journal be true -- and judging by one's own wonderful experiences, it must be -- he is also a man of great nerve. That going down to the vault a second time was a remarkable piece of daring. After reading his account of it I was prepared to meet a good specimen of manhood, but hardly the quiet, business-like gentleman who came here to-day.

[draculalive]

Telegram, Seward, London, to Van Helsing, Amsterdam.

6 September. -- Terrible change for the worse. Come at once; do not lose an hour. I hold over telegram to Holmwood till have seen you.

[draculalive]

Letter, Van Helsing to Mrs. Harker.

24 September. (Confidence)

Dear Madam, --

I pray you to pardon my writing, in that I am so far friend as that I sent to you sad news of Miss Lucy Westenra's death. By the kindness of Lord Godalming, I am empowered to read her letters and papers, for I am deeply concerned about certain matters vitally important. In them I find some letters from you, which show how great friends you were and how you love her. Oh, Madam Mina, by that love, I implore you, help me. It is for others' good that I ask -- to redress great wrong, and to lift much and terrible troubles -- that may be more great than you can know. May it be that I see you? You can trust me. I am friend of Dr. John Seward and of Lord Godalming (that was Arthur of Miss Lucy). I must keep it private for the present from all. I should come to Exeter to see you at once if you tell me I am privilege to come, and where and when. I implore your pardon, madam. I have read your letters to poor Lucy, and know how good you are and how your husband suffer; so I pray you, if it may be, enlighten him not, lest it may harm. Again your pardon, and forgive me.

VAN HELSING.

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Dr. Seward's Diary.

3 November. -- We heard at Fundu that the launch had gone up the Bistritza. I wish it wasn't so cold. There are signs of snow coming; and if it falls heavy it will stop us. In such case we must get a sledge and go on, Russian fashion.