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I didn‘t know the second “e” was silent

“Several hundred boats joined the cortège of the river, and almost the entire town participated in the funeral procession that followed the coffin, which was carried by eight sea-captains, up the steps to the grave…. Lucy herself, pleaded to attend the funeral, otherwise I would not have liked to suggest it, fearing it would upset her, and she also wished us to sit on our usual bench and…⬇️

The black hound that jumped from the Demeter and ran through the Whitby Cemetery

The Demeter. From the log-book of the Schooner Demeter (Varna to Whitby).

Merciless. 💅🏻😈😁

To be fair, I feel like that's Steward's default position. 🙄😏

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Renfield. From the “Madhouse Doctor‘s Notes”

“The old man looked around with a smug face—apparently he was an ‘esprit fort‘ in his circle.”

#wordoftheday”

October and November were extremely busy and I wasn‘t able to pick up this behemoth of a Dracula story since October! So I‘m back into it at page 300 with “only” 524 pages to go. Fortunately I know the original Dracula story so well, there‘s no rereading needed, despite the extreme differences between the original and this one written a couple years later.

The descriptions of Whitby in this version are so detailed! I love it!

Oh my- We do NOT call people impaled by Vlad the Impaler KEBABS!! 🫣🫢😆