Dracula by Bram Stoker, read by Mike Bennett. Episode 4.

Chapter 4, Jonathan Harker's Journal continued. I awoke in my own bed.

If it be that I had not dreamt, the count must have carried me here. I tried to satisfy myself on the subject

but could not arrive at any unquestionable result. To be sure, there were certain small evidences, such as that my clothes were folded and laid

by in a manner which was not my habit.

My watch was still unwound, and I am rigorously accustomed to wind it the last thing before going to

bed and many such details.

But these things are no proof, for they may have been evidence is that my mind was not as usual and from some cause or another

I had certainly been much upset. I must watch for proof. Of one thing I am glad. If it was that the Count carried me here and

undressed me, he must have been hurried in his task, for my pockets are intact. I'm sure this diary would have been a mystery to him which

he would not have brooked. He would have taken or destroyed it. As I look around this room, although it has been to me so full of fear it is now a sort of sanctuary for nothing can be

more dreadful than those awful women who were, who are waiting to suck my blood.

Eighteenth, May.

I have been down to look at that room again in daylight, for I must know the truth.

When I got to the doorway at the top of the stairs, I found it closed.

It had been so forcibly driven against the jam that part of the woodwork was

splintered. I could see that the bolt of the lock had not been shot, but the door is

fastened from the inside. I fear it was no dream and must act on this

surmise. 19th of May I'm surely in the toils. Last night the Count asked me in the suavest

tones to write three letters, one saying that my work here was nearly done and that I should start for home within a few days, another that I was starting on the next

morning from the time of the letter, and the third that I had left the castle and arrived at Bistritts.

I would fain have rebelled but felt that in the present state of things it would be

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