Bram Stoker wrote a short story named "Dracula's Guest." A young
Englishman is followed in "Dracula's Guest" as he travels to
Transylvania. The young guy subsequently leaves his carriage and walks
off, disregarding the hotel owner's advice to arrive on time. After a
few hours, it starts to snow as he approaches a barren valley; as a dark
storm intensifies, he seeks refuge in a forest of cypress and yew trees.
Soon, the moonlight reveals his location as a cemetery, and he finds
himself in front of a marble tomb with a huge iron spike embedded in the
roof. The Englishman's problems are still far from over. As he slowly
comes to his senses after the ordeal, he experiences a feeling of
disgust that he associates with a warm sensation in his chest and the
licking of his throat. The horsemen who first discover the Englishman
unconscious in a tomb describe him as an animal that is "a wolf-and yet
not a wolf." Additionally, they observe that blood is on the tomb while
his neck is unblooded. When the men later return the Englishman to his
hotel, they tell him that it was none other than his eager host Count
Dracula who had sent a telegram warning the Maître d'hôtel of "dangers
from snow and wolves and night."
