thanks to daily dracula I’ve just now for the first time clocked the fact that dracula is already shepherding jonathan harker at the point where the book begins
that dog howling under the window is the count for sure – “queer dreams” are a sign of his presence throughout the novel
if we accept that something like the short story ‘dracula’s guest’ was originally the first chapter of dracula – and it definitely was – then it’s like obvious in fact this must be true
