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Thank you. From the blackest corners of your mind, they call, pulling you deep into shadow, twisting your senses,

keeping you from sleep. It's time to face your darkest fears. This is Tales to Terrify. Good evening, children of the night, and welcome to another flashback episode.

This week we've got a classic for you, a missing morsel from one of the most famous pieces of horror fiction of all time,

a morsel that comes to us from episode 287 back in July of 2017.

Children of the Night, listen with me to Bram Stoker's Dracula's guest. When we started for our drive, the sun was shining brightly on Munich, and the air was full of the joyousness of early summer.

Just as we were about to depart, Herr Delbrook, the Métre de Hotel of the

Quatre Césons, where I was staying, came down, bareheaded to the carriage, and, after

wishing me a pleasant drive, said to the coachman, still holding his hand on the carriage door,

remember, you are back by nightfall.

The sky looks bright, but there is a shiver in the north wind that says there may be a sudden storm.

But I am sure you will not be late.'

Here he smiled and added,

"'For you know what night it is.'

Johann answered with an emphatic,

Yeah, mine hair, and, touching his hat, drove off quickly.

When we had cleared the town, I said, after signaling him to stop,

Tell me, Johann, what is tonight?

He crossed himself as he answered laconically,

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