"I felt a warm rasping at my throat, then came a consciousness of the awful truth, which chilled me to the heart and sent the blood surging up through my brain." In this intriguing literary fragment--published seventeen years after Bram Stoker's most famous novel--an English visitor to southern Germany suffers a terrifying ordeal on Walpurgis Nacht : the night when, according to local tradition, supernatural horrors are set free to walk the earth. But perhaps most chilling of all is the appearance of a mysterious telegram purporting to guarantee the Englishman's safety, a telegram sent by a certain 'Dracula'. Eris Gems make available in the form of beautifully produced saddle-stitched booklets a series of outstanding short works of fiction and non-fiction.