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Jonathan Harker’s encounter with the vampire’ sisters’ in Dracula is one of the most famous and notorious scenes in horror fiction:
In the moonlight opposite me were three young women, ladies by their dress and manner. I thought at the time that I must be dreaming when I saw them, they threw no shadow on the floor. They came close to me, and looked at me for some time, and then whispered together […] All three had brilliant white teeth that shone like pearls against the ruby of their voluptuous lips. There was something about them that made me uneasy, some longing and at the same time some deadly fear. I felt in my heart a wicked, burning desire that they would kiss me with those red lips. It is not good to note this down, lest some day it should meet Mina’s eyes and cause her pain, but it is the truth. They whispered together, and then they all three laughed — such a silvery, musical laugh, but as hard as though the sound never could have come through the softness of human lips. It was like the intolerable, tingling sweetness of water-glasses when played on by a cunning hand. The fair girl shook her head coquettishly, and the other two urged her on.
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Jones, D.J. (2014). Introduction. In: Sexuality and the Gothic Magic Lantern. The Palgrave Gothic Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137298928_1
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