item: #1 of 8 id: 10007 author: Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan title: Carmilla date: None words: 28274 flesch: 78 summary: But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths. She alluded to little incidents which I had long ceased to think of, but which, I found, had only lain in abeyance in my memory, for they instantly started into life at her touch. keywords: bed; black; carmilla; carriage; child; day; dear; doctor; door; eyes; face; father; general; good; hand; lady; life; madame; moment; night; people; room; time; years cache: 10007.txt plain text: 10007.txt item: #2 of 8 id: 14833 author: Prest, Thomas Peckett title: Varney the Vampire; Or, the Feast of Blood date: None words: 335129 flesch: 79 summary: The thing will be for you to feign ignorance of the man, and then you will be able to get him seized, and placed in the mines, for such men as he are dangerous, and carry poisoned weapons. To Mr. Henry Bannerworth, continued the stranger; and finding the garden-gate open, I came in without troubling the servants, which I much regret, as I can perceive I have alarmed and annoyed the lady. keywords: admiral; appearance; bannerworth; bell; body; chapter; charles; chillingworth; circumstances; course; day; dead; dear; death; doctor; door; doubt; eyes; face; fact; family; feeling; fire; flora; francis; francis varney; friend; george; god; going; good; got; great; hall; hand; head; heart; heaven; henry; henry bannerworth; hold; holland; home; hope; house; human; illustration; jack; know; leave; left; let; life; look; man; manner; marchdale; matter; means; mind; mob; moment; night; object; old; open; people; place; present; pringle; room; sir; sir francis; sort; sound; spot; state; stranger; subject; thing; thought; time; uncle; vampyre; varney; want; way; window; wish; world; yes; young cache: 14833.txt plain text: 14833.txt item: #3 of 8 id: 17144 author: Viereck, George Sylvester title: The House of the Vampire date: None words: 27416 flesch: 83 summary: Yet neither his apish demeanour nor the deafening noises that responded to every movement of his agile body detracted attention from the figure of Reginald Clarke and the young man at his side as they smilingly wound their way to the exit. The smile of Reginald Clarke was the smile of a conqueror. keywords: boy; clarke; day; ernest; ethel; eyes; face; hand; heart; house; jack; life; lips; love; man; mind; moment; night; play; power; reginald; reginald clarke; room; soul; thought; time; voice; work cache: 17144.txt plain text: 17144.txt item: #4 of 8 id: 23301 author: Glad, Victoria title: Each Man Kills date: None words: 6798 flesch: 95 summary: There are many things worse than being married to me; she might have married a man who beat her!_ _ The doctors told me afterwards that I was semi-conscious for days; that I had to be restrained._ _ keywords: day; days; eve; eyes; life; maria; time; tod cache: 23301.txt plain text: 23301.txt item: #5 of 8 id: 32710 author: Peirce, Earl title: Doom of the House of Duryea date: None words: 5817 flesch: 87 summary: To the clerk he said: I'm looking for my father, Doctor Henry Duryea. But the death of Doctor Henry Duryea confronted the police with an inexplicable mystery; for his trussed-up body, unscathed except for two jagged holes over the jugular vein, _had been drained of all its blood_. keywords: arthur; door; duryea; eyes; father; head; henry; son; years cache: 32710.txt plain text: 32710.txt item: #6 of 8 id: 345 author: Stoker, Bram title: Dracula date: None words: 163421 flesch: 88 summary: September._--The first thing Van Helsing said to me when we met at Liverpool Street was:-- Have you said anything to our young friend the lover of her? No, I said. How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there _are_ monsters in it. keywords: arthur; bed; blood; child; coming; count; dark; day; dead; dear; death; diary; door; eyes; face; fear; find; friend; god; godalming; good; great; hand; harker; head; heart; help; helsing; home; house; john; jonathan; lay; left; life; look; looking; lord; love; lucy; madam; man; men; mina; mind; moment; morning; morris; mrs; new; night; open; place; poor; professor; quincey; red; rest; room; round; saw; seward; sleep; sort; tell; things; think; thought; time; van; van helsing; want; way; white; window; work cache: 345.txt plain text: 345.txt item: #7 of 8 id: 40120 author: Etten, Gerard Van title: The Vampire Cat A Play in one act from the Japanese legend of the Nabeshima cat date: None words: 4251 flesch: 94 summary: [_Comes down between_ RUITEN _and_ BUZEN.] BUZEN _and_ RUITEN. keywords: buzen; cat; chapter; kashiku; prince; ruiten; toyo cache: 40120.txt plain text: 40120.txt item: #8 of 8 id: 6087 author: Polidori, John William title: The Vampyre; a Tale date: None words: 12798 flesch: 59 summary: They consented: and Aubrey immediately mentioning his intentions to Lord Ruthven, was surprised to receive from him a proposal to join him. Lord Ruthven in his carriage, and amidst the various wild and rich scenes of nature, was always the same: his eye spoke less than his lip; and though Aubrey was near the object of his curiosity, he obtained no greater gratification from it than the constant excitement of vainly wishing to break that mystery, which to his exalted imagination began to assume the appearance of something supernatural. keywords: aubrey; blood; character; day; eye; house; lady; life; light; lord; lordship; man; mind; room; ruthven; sister; thought; time; vampyre cache: 6087.txt plain text: 6087.txt