Dracula Narration
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EnglishVoice Age
Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
North American (General)Transcript
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suddenly away on our left, I saw a faint, flickering blue flame. The driver saw it at the same moment he had once checked the horses and jumping to the ground disappeared into the darkness. I did not know what to do, the less as the howling of the wolves grew closer. But while I wondered, the driver suddenly appeared again and without a word, took his seat and we resumed our journey. I think I must have fallen asleep and kept dreaming of the incident, for it seemed to be repeated endlessly. And now, looking back, it is like a sort of awful nightmare. Once the flame appeared so near the road that even in the darkness around us I could watch the drivers motions. He went rapidly to where the blue flame arose. It must have been very faint or did not seem to illuminate the place around it at all, and gathering a few stones form them into some device. Once there appeared a strange optical effect. When he stood between me and the flame, he did not obstruct it, for I could see its ghostly flicker all the same, this startled me. But is Theo effect was only momentary. I took it that my eyes deceived me, straining through the darkness. Then, for a time, there were no blue flame. So we sped onwards through the gloom with howling of the wolves around us, as though they were following in a moving circle. At last, there came a time when the driver went further a field than he had yet gone. And during his absence, the horses began to tremble, worse than ever, into snort and scream with fright. I could not see any cause for its, for the howling of the wolves had ceased altogether. But just then the moon, sailing to the black clowns peered behind the jagged crest of a beat ling pine clad rock and by its light, I saw around us a ring of wolves with white teeth in Lola, red tongues with long, similarly limbs and shaggy hair. They were 100 times more terrible in the grim silence which held them than even when they howled. For myself, I felt a sort of paralysis of fear. It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import