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Thank you, John, for accepting my friend request on Goodreads.

hey! i took that picture!

I read that exerpt. I totally found my stories. They're mostly Dude with a problem.

Franny's not a long read, about half an hour each. But I've just kept adding books every day. I like updating.

Book Dork wrote: "Hey, what are some other good classic horror novels?"

I haven't read that many that you don't know about. You could try H.G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau, or maybe some H.P. Lovecraft.

Hey, what are some other good classic horror novels?

Yes.

Maybe a tornado.

I am so glad that you are obsessed as me! It is so cool to see all the books that you have read and liked or not liked ;)! FUN!

I'd have to re-read that part, but it never made sense, and when they show it in the TV version is didn't make sense. It read like it had been badly edited--something was cut leaving it hard to understand.

Okay, so this is what I read in the commentary of the Cliffs Notes today (I really like their commentaries):

"The evil presence of the vampire manages to "materialize" inside Lucy's room, where it drugs the four household maids, thus preventing their aiding Lucy."

But wait! The maids were downstairs getting drugged, I thought. Not in Lucy's room!

Then it says in the summary:

"Upon Lucy gaining consciousness a short time later, the four housemaids came in and were so frightened at the sight of Mrs. Westenra's body that Lucy instructed them to go into the dining room to fetch a glass of wine. Later, when Lucy checked on them, she found them all unconscious, and upon examining the decanter, she discovered that it reeked of laudanum."

Um, these two aren't matching up very well.

Then the annotated version says:

"Fred Saberhagen (The Dracula Tape) does not believe for one moment that Dracula drugged these servants. Dracula's hypnotic powers, later demonstrated on the "stuporous" Jonathan Harker, would have sufficed to remove them from the scene. Saberhagen points out that the only person with means and opportunity was Lucy- whose motive, he posits, was a desire to spend some uninterrupted time with the highly attractive Dracula."

Saberhagen makes a good point, but who knows!