Classic·Gothic Fiction
Carmilla
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Before Dracula stalked London, a seductive stranger haunted an isolated Austrian castle with an intoxicating, predatory intimacy.
Shared themes:VampiresGothic horror
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1897 · Complete work
Dracula
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“When Count Dracula leaves the Carpathians for London, ancient terror crosses the threshold of the modern world.”
Told through journals, logs, and letters, this gothic masterpiece chronicles the chilling arrival of Count Dracula in Victorian England. From a desolate castle in Transylvania to the foggy streets of London, a small band of devoted men and women led by Professor Van Helsing wage a desperate battle against an ancient predator. Bram Stoker's seminal work remains a masterclass in psychological suspense, atmospheric dread, and the eternal struggle between light and encroaching darkness.
80 Episodes · Classic
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Episode 01
~10 min
Jonathan Harker’s Journal · I
“Left Munich at 8:35 P. M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late.”
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Episode 02
~11 min
Jonathan Harker’s Journal · II
“I am not sleepy, and, as I am not to be called till I awake, naturally I write till sleep comes.”
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Episode 03
~8 min
Jonathan Harker’s Journal · III
““Give me the Herr’s luggage,” said the driver; and with exceeding alacrity my bags were handed out and put in the calèche.”
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Episode 04
~10 min
Jonathan Harker’s Journal—continued · I
“I must have been asleep, for certainly if I had been fully awake I must have noticed the approach of such a remarkable place.”
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Episode 05
~11 min
Jonathan Harker’s Journal—continued · II
“When I had done, I looked for a bell, so that I might let the servants know I had finished; but I could not find one.”
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Episode 06
~7 min
Jonathan Harker’s Journal—continued · III
“Presently, with an excuse, he left me, asking me to put all my papers together.”
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Episode 07
~11 min
Jonathan Harker’s Journal—continued · I
“So far as I can see, my only plan will be to keep my knowledge and my fears to myself, and my eyes open.”
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Episode 08
~10 min
Jonathan Harker’s Journal—continued · II
“He took up the letters on the table and stamped them carefully, and then turning to me, said:—”
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Episode 09
~8 min
Jonathan Harker’s Journal—continued · III
““My tablets! quick, my tablets! ’Tis meet that I put it down,” etc.,”
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Episode 10
~8 min
Jonathan Harker’s Journal—continued · I
“To be sure, there were certain small evidences, such as that my clothes were folded and laid by in a manner which was not my habit.”
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Episode 11
~10 min
Jonathan Harker’s Journal—continued · II
“As soon as I dared I ran up the winding stair, and looked out of the window, which opened south.”
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Episode 12
~11 min
Jonathan Harker’s Journal—continued · III
““Because, dear sir, my coachman and horses are away on a mission.””
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Episode 13
~10 min
Chapter V · I
“I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.”
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Episode 14
~8 min
Chapter V · II
“And if there is I’ll never trouble you a hair’s breadth again, but will be, if you will let me, a very faithful friend.’”
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Episode 15
~11 min
Mina Murray’s Journal · I
“The little river, the Esk, runs through a deep valley, which broadens out as it comes near the harbour.”
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Episode 16
~8 min
Mina Murray’s Journal · II
“I did not know what to say, but Lucy turned the conversation as she said, rising up:—”
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Episode 17
~10 min
Mina Murray’s Journal · III
““My belief is, doctor,” he said, “that he has eaten his birds, and that he just took and ate them raw!””
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Episode 18
~11 min
Cutting From “The Dailygraph,” 8 August · I
“A little after midnight came a strange sound from over the sea, and high overhead the air began to carry a strange, faint, hollow booming.”
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Episode 19
~8 min
Cutting From “The Dailygraph,” 8 August · II
“To the general disappointment, however, it was not to be found; it seems to have disappeared entirely from the town.”
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Episode 20
~9 min
Cutting From “The Dailygraph,” 8 August · III
“On the watch last night I saw It, like a man, tall and thin, and ghastly pale.”
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Episode 21
~9 min
Mina Murray’s Journal · I
“I believe we forgot everything except, of course, personal fear, and it seemed to wipe the slate clean and give us a fresh start.”
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Episode 22
~12 min
Mina Murray’s Journal · II
“Indeed, it might have been serious, for the skin of her throat was pierced.”
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Episode 23
~10 min
Mina Murray’s Journal · III
“I am to leave in the morning and go over to Jonathan, and to help to nurse him if necessary, and to bring him home.”
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Episode 24
~10 min
Chapter IX · I
“Well, my dear, I got to Hull all right, and caught the boat to Hamburg, and then the train on here.”
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Episode 25
~12 min
Chapter IX · II
“I have given orders to the night attendant merely to shut him in the padded room, when once he is quiet, until an hour before sunrise.”
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Episode 26
~8 min
Chapter IX · III
“Then, without any seeming change, he brought the conversation gently round to his visit, and suavely said:—”
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Episode 27
~11 min
Chapter X · I
“We are hedged in with difficulties, all of us, my poor old fellow; but, please God, we shall come through them all right.”
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Episode 28
~11 min
Chapter X · II
““The brave lover, I think, deserve another kiss, which he shall have presently.””
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Episode 29
~7 min
Chapter X · III
“If our young lover should turn up unexpected, as before, no word to him.”
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Episode 30
~10 min
Chapter XI · I
“Well, here I am to-night, hoping for sleep, and lying like Ophelia in the play, with “virgin crants and maiden strewments.””
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Episode 31
~10 min
Chapter XI · II
“He had a ’ard, cold look and red eyes, and I took a sort of mislike to him, for it seemed as if it was ’im as they was hirritated at.”
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Episode 32
~6 min
Chapter XI · III
“I feel I am dying of weakness, and have barely strength to write, but it must be done if I die in the doing.”
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Episode 33
~14 min
Dr. Seward’s Diary · I
“I knocked gently and rang as quietly as possible, for I feared to disturb Lucy or her mother, and hoped to only bring a servant to the door.”
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Episode 34
~14 min
Dr. Seward’s Diary · II
“Then she looked around the room, and seeing where she was, shuddered; she gave a loud cry, and put her poor thin hands before her pale face.”
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Episode 35
~8 min
Dr. Seward’s Diary · III
“Arthur went off with him, casting back a longing look on Lucy’s face, which lay in her pillow, almost whiter than the lawn.”
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Episode 36
~12 min
Chapter XIII · I
“For me, I watch here in the room and in Miss Lucy’s old room all night, and I myself search for what may be.”
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Episode 37
~10 min
Chapter XIII · II
“A grip of the hand, the tightening of an arm over the shoulder, a sob in unison, are expressions of sympathy dear to a man’s heart.”
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Episode 38
~10 min
Chapter XIII · III
“All the time of the burial he was, I could see, putting some terrible restraint on himself.”
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Episode 39
~12 min
Mina Harker’s Journal · I
“My household work is done, so I shall take his foreign journal, and lock myself up in my room and read it....”
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Episode 40
~12 min
Mina Harker’s Journal · II
““He was almost recovered, but he has been greatly upset by Mr. Hawkins’s death.””
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Episode 41
~8 min
Mina Harker’s Journal · III
““Do you mean to tell me, friend John, that you have no suspicion as to what poor Lucy died of; not after all the hints given, not only by events, but by me?””
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Episode 42
~11 min
Chapter XV · I
“Oh, my friend, why, think you, did I go so far round, why take so long to tell you so simple a thing?”
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Episode 43
~11 min
Chapter XV · II
“I shrugged my shoulders, however, and rested silent, for Van Helsing had a way of going on his own road, no matter who remonstrated.”
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Episode 44
~7 min
Chapter XV · III
““I want you to come with me, and to come in secret, to the churchyard at Kingstead.””
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Episode 45
~12 min
Dr. Seward’s Diary—continued · I
“He evidently did not know that there was a leaden coffin, or, at any rate, had not thought of it.”
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Episode 46
~11 min
Dr. Seward’s Diary—continued · II
“Of course, Arthur wore black, for he was in deep mourning, but the rest of us wore it by instinct.”
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Episode 47
~11 min
Dr. Seward’s Diary—continued · I
““I knew you from the description of poor dear Lucy; but——” She stopped suddenly, and a quick blush overspread her face.”
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Episode 48
~8 min
Dr. Seward’s Diary—continued · II
“When the terrible story of Lucy’s death, and—and all that followed, was done, I lay back in my chair powerless.”
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Episode 49
~10 min
Dr. Seward’s Diary—continued · III
“He, too, put me at once in communication with the proper officials, and I saw that their tally was correct with the original invoice.”
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Episode 50
~13 min
Dr. Seward’s Diary · I
““Oh, very well,” he said; “let her come in, by all means; but just wait a minute till I tidy up the place.””
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Episode 51
~14 min
Dr. Seward’s Diary · II
““Count me in, Professor,” said Mr. Quincey Morris, laconically as usual.”
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Episode 52
~8 min
Dr. Seward’s Diary · III
“He looked at me keenly, and seeing the negative in my face, turned to the others, and scrutinised them closely.”
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Episode 53
~11 min
Jonathan Harker’s Journal · I
“But we live and learn, and in our present task we must take no chance, as my friend Quincey would say.”
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Episode 54
~11 min
Jonathan Harker’s Journal · II
“Lord Godalming lifted one of the dogs, and carrying him in, placed him on the floor.”
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Episode 55
~6 min
Jonathan Harker’s Journal · III
“My dream was very peculiar, and was almost typical of the way that waking thoughts become merged in, or continued in, dreams.”
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Episode 56
~11 min
Jonathan Harker’s Journal · I
“He is a decent, intelligent fellow, distinctly a good, reliable type of workman, and with a headpiece of his own.”
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Episode 57
~11 min
Jonathan Harker’s Journal · II
““Pardon me,” I said, with equal politeness, “but I have a special reason for wishing to know who purchased it.””
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Episode 58
~7 min
Jonathan Harker’s Journal · III
““I wonder,” I said reflectively, “what an elephant’s soul is like!””
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Episode 59
~12 min
Dr. Seward’s Diary · I
“Let me put down with exactness all that happened, as well as I can remember it, since last I made an entry.”
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Episode 60
~12 min
Dr. Seward’s Diary · II
““When Mrs. Harker came in to see me this afternoon she wasn’t the same; it was like tea after the teapot had been watered.””
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Episode 61
~7 min
Dr. Seward’s Diary · III
“I could not but feel that Art was keeping back something; but, as I took it that it was with a purpose, I said nothing.”
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Episode 62
~11 min
Jonathan Harker’s Journal · I
“All, big and little, must go down; perhaps at the end the little things may teach us most.”
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Episode 63
~10 min
Jonathan Harker’s Journal · II
““Do you forget,” he said, with actually a smile, “that last night he banqueted heavily, and will sleep late?””
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Episode 64
~6 min
Jonathan Harker’s Journal · III
““The advice is good!” said Van Helsing, so we said no more.”
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Episode 65
~11 min
Dr. Seward’s Diary · I
“Last night he was a frank, happy-looking man, with strong, youthful face, full of energy, and with dark brown hair.”
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Episode 66
~9 min
Dr. Seward’s Diary · II
“He, rushing up the steps, crossed the flagged yard, and pushed open the stable door.”
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Episode 67
~8 min
Dr. Seward’s Diary · III
“I must have fallen asleep, for I was awaked by Mina, who was sitting up in bed, with a startled look on her face.”
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Episode 68
~13 min
Dr. Seward’s Phonograph Diary, Spoken by van Helsing · I
“It was his last hope, save that he might hide in the tomb that he think poor Miss Lucy, being as he thought like him, keep open to him.”
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Episode 69
~11 min
Dr. Seward’s Phonograph Diary, Spoken by van Helsing · II
“This that we hunt from our village is a tiger, too, a man-eater, and he never cease to prowl.”
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Episode 70
~7 min
Dr. Seward’s Phonograph Diary, Spoken by van Helsing · III
““I promise!” and as I said it I felt that from that instant a door had been shut between us.”
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Episode 71
~11 min
Dr. Seward’s Diary · I
“To-night, when we met, she was somewhat constrained, and bore all the signs of an internal struggle.”
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Episode 72
~12 min
Dr. Seward’s Diary · II
“Everything is pretty well fixed now, I think, to welcome the Count on his return from his tour.”
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Episode 73
~7 min
Dr. Seward’s Diary · III
“But there comes another word from some one who speak without thought because she, too, know not what it mean—what it might mean.”
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Episode 74
~13 min
Dr. Seward’s Diary · I
“She had risen, as if impulsively, from where she lay on the sofa, and raised both her hands, palms upwards, as if lifting a weight.”
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Episode 75
~12 min
Dr. Seward’s Diary · II
“It is all done; poor dear, dear Jonathan, what he must have suffered, what must he be suffering now.”
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Episode 76
~10 min
Dr. Seward’s Diary · III
“For if they did not, our little expedition could not start, either so promptly or so well equipped, as it will within another hour.”
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Episode 77
~10 min
Mina Harker’s Journal · I
“I am afraid to think of Jonathan, but somehow I have now no fear for him, or for myself.”
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Episode 78
~12 min
Mina Harker’s Journal · II
““Well,” said I to myself, “if it be that she sleep all the day, it shall also be that I do not sleep at night.””
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Episode 79
~11 min
Mina Harker’s Journal · III
“I tremble and tremble even yet, though till all was over, God be thanked, my nerve did stand.”
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Episode 80
~8 min
Mina Harker’s Journal · IV
“He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew too well.”
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Public-domain work (1897). Text: Project Gutenberg #345. The Spanish version is an AI-assisted translation and may contain errors. Digital edition by Inkora Stories. Learn more