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"But my very feelings changed to repulsion and terror when I saw the whole man slowly emerge from the window and begin to crawl down the castle wall over the dreadful abyss, face down, with his cloak spreading out around him like great wings... I saw the fingers and toes grasp the corners of the stones, worn clear of the mortar by the stress of years, and by thus using every projection and inequality move downwards with considerable speed, just as a lizard moves along a wall." The young lawyer Jonathan Harker thus receives a strong impression that all is not right with his new client, a Transylvanian count looking to buy a house in London. The plot of Dracula is familiar from hundreds of adaptations, but the original story -- told through journal entries, letters, etc. -- can yet shock and horrify, as when Harker describes the vampire in his coffin as "simply engorged with blood," looking "like a filthy leech." Dracula, probably the best-selling horror novel of all time, still ma...
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