... ," a nightmare in which Stoker envisaged "a 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 inspiration was meant to highlight the creative genus and originality ... ...

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