'There he lay looking as if youth had been half-renewed, for the white hair and
moustache were changed to dark iron-grey, the cheeks were fuller, and the white
skin seemed ruby-red underneath; the mouth was redder than ever, for on the lips
were gouts of fresh blood, which trickled from the corners of the mouth and ran
over the chin and neck. Even the deep, burning eyes seemed set amongst the
swollen flesh, for the lids and pouches underneath were bloated. It seemed as if
the whole awful creature were simply gorged with blood; he lay like a filthy
leech, exhausted with his repletion.? Thus Bram Stoker, one of the greatest
exponents of the supernatural narrative, describes the demonic subject of his
chilling masterpiece Dracula, a truly iconic and unsettling tale of vampirism.