![]() ![]() It was so near the time of starting that I had no time to ask anyone else, for it was all very mysterious and not by any means comforting. ![]() When I asked him if he knew Count Dracula, and could tell me anything of his castle, both he and his wife crossed themselves, and, saying that they knew nothing at all, simply refused to speak further. He mumbled out that the money had been sent in a letter, and that was all he knew. He and his wife, the old lady who had received me, looked at each other in a frightened sort of way. One old lady even gives him a crucifix for his protection. He puts down the strange behaviour of the locals, especially when he tells them where he is going, to some local eccentricities and superstitions. ![]() ![]() Young and eager for new experiences, Harker takes in the culture, food, dress, landscape and ethnicities of Buda-Pesth, so very different from his home. Jonathan Harker, an English solicitor, has been dispatched to central Europe on the mundane task of procuring a new London residence for a reclusive aristocrat. Dracula is still being read and enjoyed as the source for the fascination but unaccustomed readers may be surprised by what the original contains. Instead, they are being forever reimagined in new forms and contexts. In over a century since Dracula was published, vampires have never left popular culture. ![]()
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