#christopher frayling
it may be near the beginning but the may 16th journal entry of ‘dracula’ is the beating heart of the whole novel – it’s the inception point around which the entire story is built
in every draft and outline, in all the 7 years that bram stoker was writing it, the narrative climax when, after long paragraphs charged with palpable lust and dread, the count thrusts back the weird sisters and claims jonathan harker as his own is the single point of consistency
in support of the above claim:
(sir christopher frayling, preface to the revised penguin edition of 'dracula,’ 2003 / david j. skal, 'something in the blood,’ 2016)
