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Dracula / Life and Death

Author: Bram Stoker (Gutenberg)  | Themes: mortality, decay, resurrection, the macabre, the supernatural  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-02-02

Into two of these I went, but saw nothing except fragments of old coffins and piles of dust; in the third, however, I made a discovery. There, in one ...
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Dracula / Science and Belief

Author: Bram Stoker (Gutenberg)  | Themes: knowledge versus ignorance, mortality, the supernatural, human understanding, skepticism  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-03

Then, friend John, am I to take it that you simply accept fact, and are satisfied to let from premise to conclusion be a blank? Then tell me--for I am...
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Dracula / Corrupted Purity

Author: Bram Stoker (Gutenberg)  | Themes: innocence lost, sexual desire, supernatural horror, moral conflict, fear of death  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-13

The sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness. Van Helsing stepped out, and, obedient to his gest...
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Dracula / Tension and Desire

Author: Bram Stoker (Gutenberg)  | Themes: supernatural, desire, madness, tension, duality  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-13

He did not, however, betray himself; he nodded slightly and said: “Go on,” in a low voice. Renfield proceeded:-- “He came up to the window in the mist...
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Gulliver's Travels / Supernatural Encounters

Author: Jonathan Swift (Gutenberg)  | Themes: exploration, supernatural, vulnerability, colonialism, otherness  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-12

He desired me to give him some account of my travels; and, to let me see that I should be treated without ceremony, he dismissed all his attendants wi...
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Gulliver's Travels / Authority and Illusion

Author: Jonathan Swift (Gutenberg)  | Themes: fear, power dynamics, the supernatural, transformation, travel  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-12

He desired me to give him some account of my travels; and, to let me see that I should be treated without ceremony, he dismissed all his attendants wi...
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Dracula / Dreadful Transformation

Author: Bram Stoker (Gutenberg)  | Themes: mortality, decay, horror, fear, the supernatural  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-09

If I was shocked when I saw her yesterday, I was horrified when I saw her to-day. She was ghastly, chalkily pale; the red seemed to have gone even fro...
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Dracula / Desire and Duty

Author: Bram Stoker (Gutenberg)  | Themes: temptation, mortality, sacrifice, supernatural  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-02

I dared not pause to look on her as I had on her sister, lest once more I should begin to be enthrall; but I go on searching until, presently, I find ...
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Dracula / Protective Circumference

Author: Bram Stoker (Gutenberg)  | Themes: fear, sacrifice, vulnerability, protection, supernatural  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-25

Then, with the fear on me of what might be, I drew a ring so big for her comfort, round where Madam Mina sat; and over the ring I passed some of the w...
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Dracula / Strength in Vulnerability

Author: Bram Stoker (Gutenberg)  | Themes: health, masculinity, supernatural, care, vulnerability  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-25

You are weakened already.” As he spoke he took off his coat and rolled up his shirt-sleeve. Again the operation; again the narcotic; again some return...