"....I heard a heavy step approaching
behind the great door. There was the sound
of rattling chains and the great door swung back.
Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven
save for a long white moustache, and clad
in black from head to foot, without a single
speck of colour about him anywhere. He held
in his hand an antique silver lamp, in which a
flame burned without chimney or globe of any
kind, throwing long quivering shadows as it
flickered in the drought of the open door.
The old man motioned me in with his right hand
with a courtly gesture, saying in excellent English,
but with a strange intonation:
"Welcome to my house! Enter freely,
and of your own will!"
I stepped over the threshold and he moved forward....."
Bram Stoker 1847-1912
Dracula 1897
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