... there was no trace of any living soul. On this incident, Dracula's own words have survived in the collective memory of the Romanian people: "These men live off the sweat of others, so they are useless to humanity. It is a form of thievery. In fact, the masked robber in the forest ... ghoul rising from the grave to go about it's ghastly business." Nightmares, after all, have always been favorite literary devices, used by Mary Shelly and Robert Louis Stevenson, among many others, to camouflage all traces of borrowings from prior readings connected with their subjects. The claim of dream in...

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