{"collection":"Gothic Texts","page":1,"pages":[{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_goth_vav_vav16_htm","collection":"Gothic Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_goth_vav_vav16_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"This is the climactic episode of *Vikram and the Vampire* (Baital Pachisi), a classical Indian frame-narrative cycle rendered in 19th-century English prose, in which King Vikram must carry a Vampire (Baital) on his back through a haunted cremation ground while the demon tests him with riddles and stories. Here, the Baital reveals the central conspiracy: the seemingly virtuous merchant and the ascetic saint Shanta-Shil are the same dangerous Jogi, who engineered the entire quest in order to sacrifice Vikram to the goddess Kali and gain universal dominion. The demon warns Vikram in a whisper not to prostrate himself when commanded, and counsels him to turn the ritual command against the Jogi himself. Vikram arrives at the burning ground, described in an elaborate set-piece of South Asian demonology \u2014 a carnival of Rakshasas, Pretas, Pisachas, Dakinis, and elemental chaos \u2014 before being led into a temple of Smashana-Kali, whose idol is rendered in full iconographic horror. When the Jogi orders Vikram to perform the eight-limbed prostration, Vikram feigns ignorance and asks the Jogi to demonstrate, then beheads him mid-bow. The text is distinctive for its dense layering of Hindu cosmological detail alongside a trickster-wisdom moral \u2014 that survival depends not on strength but on knowing when to stay silent and when to turn an enemy's own trap against them.","title":"Conclusion.","word_count":2427},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_goth_drac_index_htm","collection":"Gothic Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_goth_drac_index_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"| | Dracula by Bram Stoker [1897] | \nThis novel, in the form of fictional journals and letters, was not the first or even the best 19th Century vampire tale, but is today the best known, due to the endless number of movies based on it. Today we know that Dracula had a medieval counterpart, Vlad the Impaler, who lived in Wallachia (which is to the south of Transylvania), today part of Romania. Although not an actual vampire, Vlad was said to have spilled quite a bit of blood in his day.--J.B.","title":"Dracula Index","word_count":93},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_goth_drac_drac01_htm","collection":"Gothic Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_goth_drac_drac01_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Jonathan Harker's Journal\n3 May. Bistritz.--Left Munich at 8:35 P.M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late. Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the streets.","title":"Dracula: Chapter 1","word_count":5686},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_goth_drac_drac10_htm","collection":"Gothic Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_goth_drac_drac10_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"","title":"Dracula: Chapter 10","word_count":5938},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_goth_drac_drac11_htm","collection":"Gothic Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_goth_drac_drac11_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"","title":"Dracula: Chapter 11","word_count":5152},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_goth_drac_drac12_htm","collection":"Gothic Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_goth_drac_drac12_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"DR. SEWARD'S DIARY\n18 September.--I drove at once to Hillingham and arrived early. Keeping my cab at the gate, I went up the avenue alone.","title":"Dracula: Chapter 12","word_count":7301},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_goth_drac_drac13_htm","collection":"Gothic Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_goth_drac_drac13_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"DR. SEWARD'S DIARY--cont. The funeral was arranged for the next succeeding day, so that Lucy and her mother might be buried together.","title":"Dracula: Chapter 13","word_count":6629},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_goth_drac_drac14_htm","collection":"Gothic Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_goth_drac_drac14_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"MINA HARKER'S JOURNAL\n23 September.--Jonathan is better after a bad night. I am so glad that he has plenty of work to do, for that keeps his mind off the terrible things, and oh, I am rejoiced that he is not now weighed down with the responsibility of his new position. I knew he would be true to himself, and now how proud I am to see my Jonathan rising to the height of his advancement and keeping pace in all ways with the duties that come upon him.","title":"Dracula: Chapter 14","word_count":6465},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_goth_drac_drac15_htm","collection":"Gothic Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_goth_drac_drac15_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"","title":"Dracula: Chapter 15","word_count":5841},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_goth_drac_drac16_htm","collection":"Gothic Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_goth_drac_drac16_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"DR SEWARD'S DIARY-cont. It was just a quarter before twelve o'clock when we got into the churchyard over the low wall. The night was dark with occasional gleams of moonlight between the dents of the heavy clouds that scudded across the sky.","title":"Dracula: Chapter 16","word_count":4569},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_goth_drac_drac17_htm","collection":"Gothic Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_goth_drac_drac17_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"DR. SEWARD'S DIARY-cont. When we arrived at the Berkely Hotel, Van Helsing found a telegram waiting for him.","title":"Dracula: Chapter 17","word_count":5532},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_goth_drac_drac18_htm","collection":"Gothic Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_goth_drac_drac18_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"DR. SEWARD'S DIARY\n30 September.--I got home at five o'clock, and found that Godalming and Morris had not only arrived, but had already studied the transcript of the various diaries and letters which Harker had not yet returned from his visit to the carriers' men, of whom Dr. Hennessey had written to me.","title":"Dracula: Chapter 18","word_count":6934},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_goth_drac_drac19_htm","collection":"Gothic Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_goth_drac_drac19_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL\n1 October, 5 A.M.--I went with the party to the search with an easy mind, for I think I never saw Mina so absolutely strong and well. I am so glad that she consented to hold back and let us men do the work. Somehow, it was a dread to me that she was in this fearful business at all, but now that her work is done, and that it is due to her energy and brains and foresight that the whole story is put together in such a way that every point tells, she may well feel that her\u2026","title":"Dracula: Chapter 19","word_count":5700},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_goth_drac_drac02_htm","collection":"Gothic Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_goth_drac_drac02_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Jonathan Harker's Journal Continued\n5 May.--I must have been asleep, for certainly if I had been fully awake I must have noticed the approach of such a remarkable place. In the gloom the courtyard looked of considerable size, and as several dark ways led from it under great round arches, it perhaps seemed bigger than it really is. I have not yet been able to see it by daylight.","title":"Dracula: Chapter 2","word_count":5505},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_goth_drac_drac20_htm","collection":"Gothic Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_goth_drac_drac20_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL\n1 October, evening.--I found Thomas Snelling in his house at Bethnal Green, but unhappily he was not in a condition to remember anything. The very prospect of beer which my expected coming had opened to him had proved too much, and he had begun too early on his expected debauch. I learned, however, from his wife, who seemed a decent, poor soul, that he was only the assistant of Smollet, who of the two mates was the responsible person.","title":"Dracula: Chapter 20","word_count":5925},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_goth_drac_drac21_htm","collection":"Gothic Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_goth_drac_drac21_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"DR. SEWARD'S DIARY\n3 October.--Let me put down with exactness all that happened, as well as I can remember, since last I made an entry. Not a detail that I can recall must be forgotten.","title":"Dracula: Chapter 21","word_count":6218},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_goth_drac_drac22_htm","collection":"Gothic Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_goth_drac_drac22_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL\n3 October.--As I must do something or go mad, I write this diary. It is now six o'clock, and we are to meet in the study in half an hour and take something to eat, for Dr. Van Helsing and Dr.","title":"Dracula: Chapter 22","word_count":5502},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_goth_drac_drac23_htm","collection":"Gothic Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_goth_drac_drac23_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"DR. SEWARD'S DIARY\n3 October.--The time seemed terribly long whilst we were waiting for the coming of Godalming and Quincey Morris. The Professor tried to keep our minds active by using them all the time.","title":"Dracula: Chapter 23","word_count":5701},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_goth_drac_drac24_htm","collection":"Gothic Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_goth_drac_drac24_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"This is an excerpt from Bram Stoker's 1897 Gothic horror novel *Dracula*, presented in the epistolary form that structures the entire book \u2014 here through phonograph diary entries, a Van Helsing letter, and handwritten journals from Jonathan and Mina Harker. The passage covers the pivotal turning point when the hunters confirm that Count Dracula has fled London and boarded the ship *Czarina Catherine*, bound for Varna and then the Danube, carrying his last remaining earth-box back to Transylvania. Van Helsing recounts the dockside investigation in vivid detail \u2014 Dracula appearing gaunt and black-clad, conjuring a localized fog to delay the ship's departure until he could confirm his coffin was safely stowed \u2014 and announces the group's plan to travel overland to intercept him before he reaches his castle. The excerpt's most distinctive passage is Van Helsing's impassioned argument for why the pursuit is essential: he argues that Dracula is a singular, almost cosmically produced being whose centuries of undead existence were enabled by unique geological and geomagnetic forces in Transylvania, making him an existential rather than merely personal threat. Mina's compromised state \u2014 vampirically linked to Dracula, her forehead scarred \u2014 simultaneously drives the urgency and enables the hunters' intelligence, as her hypnotic trances track Dracula's location aboard the ship. The section captures the novel's characteristic tension between rational, coordinated Victorian methodology and the overwhelming, preternatural force it is trying to destroy.","title":"Dracula: Chapter 24","word_count":6264},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_goth_drac_drac25_htm","collection":"Gothic Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_goth_drac_drac25_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"This is an excerpt from Bram Stoker's 1897 Gothic horror novel *Dracula*, drawn from the novel's signature epistolary format: diary entries by Dr. Seward and Jonathan Harker during the climactic hunt for the vampire Count. The central scene depicts Mina Harker \u2014 partially vampirized after Dracula forced her to drink his blood \u2014 gathering her husband and companions to extract a solemn oath: if she becomes fully undead, they must kill her, stake her, and decapitate her, as they did their friend Lucy. She frames this as an act of love and duty, explicitly asking her husband Jonathan to be the one to do it, and requests that the Anglican Burial Service be read over her immediately, since she considers herself already deeper in death than the grave. The second section shifts to Varna, Bulgaria, where the group has raced to intercept Dracula's ship, the *Czarina Catherine*, using Van Helsing's hypnosis of the psychically-linked Mina at sunrise and sunset to track the vessel's position. What makes the passage distinctive is its emotional inversion: Mina is simultaneously victim, strategist, and the moral center of the group, calmly orchestrating her own potential execution while the men around her collapse into grief.","title":"Dracula: Chapter 25","word_count":6283},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_goth_drac_drac26_htm","collection":"Gothic Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_goth_drac_drac26_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"DR. SEWARD'S DIARY\n29 October.--This is written in the train from Varna to Galatz. Last night we all assembled a little before the time of sunset.","title":"Dracula: Chapter 26","word_count":7082},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_goth_drac_drac27_htm","collection":"Gothic Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_goth_drac_drac27_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"This is an excerpt from Bram Stoker's 1897 Gothic horror novel *Dracula*, presented in the epistolary form the novel uses throughout \u2014 journal entries and memoranda written by characters as events unfold. The passage follows the climactic pursuit of Count Dracula across Transylvania: Mina Harker and Professor Van Helsing race by carriage toward Dracula's castle in the Carpathians, using hypnosis on Mina to track the Count's movements while he travels by river. A central tension drives the sequence \u2014 Mina is herself spiritually contaminated by Dracula (having been forced to drink his blood), and Van Helsing observes with mounting dread that her behavior is shifting: she sleeps through daylight, loses appetite, brightens unnaturally at sunset, and becomes increasingly impervious to hypnosis. The dual-narrator structure is distinctive here, switching from Mina's restrained, devoted voice to Van Helsing's fractured, urgent English, which lends the latter sections a sense of mounting alarm barely held in check by duty. The excerpt is notable for centering female experience and vulnerability at the horror's core \u2014 Mina is simultaneously a victim, an instrument of detection, and a person of moral grace, while Van Helsing's terror is less about the monster than about watching someone he respects be slowly claimed. Readers drawn to psychological Gothic horror, Victorian anxieties about female purity and contamination, or the novel's formal epistolary innovation will find this passage representative of the book's strongest qualities.","title":"Dracula: Chapter 27","word_count":7969},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_goth_drac_drac03_htm","collection":"Gothic Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_goth_drac_drac03_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Jonathan Harker's Journal Continued\nWhen I found that I was a prisoner a sort of wild feeling came over me. I rushed up and down the stairs, trying every door and peering out of every window I could find, but after a little the conviction of my helplessness overpowered all other feelings. When I look back after a few hours I think I must have been mad for the time, for I behaved much as a rat does in a trap.","title":"Dracula: Chapter 3","word_count":5698},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_goth_drac_drac04_htm","collection":"Gothic Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_goth_drac_drac04_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Jonathan Harker's Journal Continued\nI 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.","title":"Dracula: Chapter 4","word_count":5826},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_goth_drac_drac05_htm","collection":"Gothic Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_goth_drac_drac05_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"LETTER FROM MISS MINA MURRAY TO MISS LUCY WESTENRA\n9 May. My dearest Lucy,\nForgive my long delay in writing, but I have been simply overwhelmed with work. The life of an assistant schoolmistress is sometimes trying.","title":"Dracula: Chapter 5","word_count":3534},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_goth_drac_drac06_htm","collection":"Gothic Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_goth_drac_drac06_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"MINA MURRAY'S JOURNAL\n24 July. Whitby.--Lucy met me at the station, looking sweeter and lovelier than ever, and we drove up to the house at the Crescent in which they have rooms. This is a lovely place.","title":"Dracula: Chapter 6","word_count":5658},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_goth_drac_drac07_htm","collection":"Gothic Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_goth_drac_drac07_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"","title":"Dracula: Chapter 7","word_count":5596},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_goth_drac_drac08_htm","collection":"Gothic Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_goth_drac_drac08_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"MINA MURRAY'S JOURNAL\nSame day, 11 o'clock P.M.--Oh, but I am tired! If it were not that I had made my diary a duty I should not open it tonight. We had a lovely walk.","title":"Dracula: Chapter 8","word_count":6292},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_goth_drac_drac09_htm","collection":"Gothic Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_goth_drac_drac09_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"LETTER, MINA HARKER TO LUCY WESTENRA\nBuda-Pesth, 24 August. \"My dearest Lucy,\n\"I know you will be anxious to hear all that has happened since we parted at the railway station at Whitby. \"Well, my dear, I got to Hull all right, and caught the boat to Hamburg, and then the train on here.","title":"Dracula: Chapter 9","word_count":5854},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_goth_vav_vav17_htm","collection":"Gothic Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_goth_vav_vav17_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"This is an annotated scholarly apparatus \u2014 footnotes or endnotes \u2014 accompanying a Victorian-era English translation of the *Baital Pachisi* (Sanskrit: *Vetala-pancha-Vinshati*), the classic Indian tale-cycle featuring the legendary King Vikramaditya and a supernatural spirit. The notes supply glosses on Hindu mythology, Sanskrit terminology, cultural practices (sandhyas, Gandharba marriage, the Kali Yuga chronology), and historical background on Vikramaditya's reign and the literary patronage of his court. A recurring and distinctive preoccupation is comparative religion and folklore: the annotator draws explicit parallels between Hindu cosmology and European classical traditions (Cerberus/Trisira, Cupid/Kama Deva, the Golden Age), between Hindu narrative and the Arabian Nights, and between Indian and Islamic attitudes toward fate and the afterlife. The notes also betray an Orientalist editorial hand \u2014 likely Richard Burton's \u2014 that occasionally editorializes on Hindu customs with a mixture of genuine erudition and colonial condescension, as when the annotator \"extends the privilege\" of pious devotion to wives that the original text reserved for husbands. Readers interested in 19th-century comparative mythology, Sanskrit literary history, or the reception of Indian literature in Victorian England will find the apparatus substantive, though its value as a guide to the primary text is inseparable from its period biases.","title":"Footnotes","word_count":5098},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_goth_frank_frank06_htm","collection":"Gothic Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_goth_frank_frank06_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"I AM by birth a Genevese; and my family is one of the most distinguished of that republic. My ancestors had been for many years counsellors and syndics; and my father had filled several public situations with honour and reputation. He was respected by all who knew him for his integrity and indefatigable attention to public business.","title":"Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus: Chapter 1","word_count":1787},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_goth_frank_frank15_htm","collection":"Gothic Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_goth_frank_frank15_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"I SPENT the following day roaming through the valley. I stood beside the sources of the Arveiron, which take their rise in a glacier, that with slow pace is advancing down from the summit of the hills, to barricade the valley. The abrupt sides of vast mountains were before me; the icy wall of the glacier overhung me; a few shattered pines were scattered around; and the solemn silence of this glorious presence-chamber of imperial Nature was broken only by the brawling waves, or the fall of some\u2026","title":"Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus: Chapter 10","word_count":2366},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_goth_frank_frank16_htm","collection":"Gothic Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_goth_frank_frank16_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"\"IT IS with considerable difficulty that I remember the original era of being: all the events of that period appear confused and indistinct. A strange multiplicity of sensations seized me, and I saw, felt, heard, and smelt, at the same time; and it was, indeed, a long time before I learned to distinguish between the operations of my various senses. By degrees, I remember, a stronger light pressed upon my nerves, so that I was obliged to shut my eyes.","title":"Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus: Chapter 11","word_count":2914},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_goth_frank_frank17_htm","collection":"Gothic Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_goth_frank_frank17_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"\"I LAY on my straw, but I could not sleep. I thought of the occurrences of the day. What chiefly struck me was the gentle manners of these people; and I longed to join them, but dared not.","title":"Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus: Chapter 12","word_count":1924},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_goth_frank_frank19_htm","collection":"Gothic Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_goth_frank_frank19_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"\"SOME time elapsed before I learned the history of my friends. It was one which could not fail to impress itself deeply on my mind, unfolding as it did a number of circumstances, each interesting and wonderful to one so utterly inexperienced as I was. \"The name of the old man was De Lacey.","title":"Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus: Chapter 14","word_count":1861},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_goth_frank_frank20_htm","collection":"Gothic Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_goth_frank_frank20_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"\"SUCH was the history of my beloved cottagers. It impressed me deeply. I learned, from the views of social life which it developed, to admire their virtues, and to deprecate the vices of mankind.","title":"Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus: Chapter 15","word_count":3018},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_goth_frank_frank21_htm","collection":"Gothic Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_goth_frank_frank21_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"\"CURSED, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why, in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence which you had so wantonly bestowed?","title":"Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus: Chapter 16","word_count":3215},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_goth_frank_frank22_htm","collection":"Gothic Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_goth_frank_frank22_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"THE BEING finished speaking, and fixed his looks upon me in expectation of a reply. But I was bewildered, perplexed, and unable to arrange my ideas sufficiently to understand the full extent of his proposition. He continued:\n\"You must create a female for me, with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being.","title":"Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus: Chapter 17","word_count":1929},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_goth_frank_frank23_htm","collection":"Gothic Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_goth_frank_frank23_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"DAY after day, week after week, passed away on my return to Geneva; and I could not collect the courage to recommence my work. I feared the vengeance of the disappointed fiend, yet I was unable to overcome my repugnance to the task which was enjoined me. I found that I could not compose a female without again devoting several months to profound study and laborious disquisition.","title":"Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus: Chapter 18","word_count":2860},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_goth_frank_frank24_htm","collection":"Gothic Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_goth_frank_frank24_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"LONDON was our present point of rest; we determined to remain several months in this wonderful and celebrated city. Clerval desired the intercourse of the men of genius and talent who flourished at this time; but this was with me a secondary object; I was principally occupied with the means of obtaining the information necessary for the completion of my promise, and quickly availed myself of the letters of introduction that I had brought with me, addressed to the most distinguished natural\u2026","title":"Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus: Chapter 19","word_count":2617},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_goth_frank_frank07_htm","collection":"Gothic Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_goth_frank_frank07_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"WE WERE brought up together; there was not quite a year difference in our ages. I need not say that we were strangers to any species of disunion or dispute. Harmony was the soul of our companionship, and the diversity and contrast that subsisted in our characters drew us nearer together.","title":"Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus: Chapter 2","word_count":2223},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_goth_frank_frank25_htm","collection":"Gothic Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_goth_frank_frank25_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"I SAT one evening in my laboratory; the sun had set, and the moon was just rising from the sea; I had not sufficient light for my employment, and I remained idle, in a pause of consideration of whether I should leave my labour for the night, or hasten its conclusion by an unremitting attention to it. As I sat, a train of reflection occurred to me, which led me to consider the effects of what I was now doing. Three years before I was engaged in the same manner, and had created a fiend whose\u2026","title":"Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus: Chapter 20","word_count":3534},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_goth_frank_frank26_htm","collection":"Gothic Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_goth_frank_frank26_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"I WAS soon introduced into the presence of the magistrate, an old benevolent man, with calm and mild manners. He looked upon me, however, with some degree of severity: and then, turning towards my conductors, he asked who appeared as witnesses on this occasion. About half a dozen men came forward; and one being selected by the magistrate, he deposed that he had been out fishing the night before with his son and brother-in-law, Daniel Nugent, when, about ten o'clock, they observed a strong\u2026","title":"Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus: Chapter 21","word_count":3758},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_goth_frank_frank27_htm","collection":"Gothic Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_goth_frank_frank27_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"THE voyage came to an end. We landed and proceeded to Paris. I soon found that I had overtaxed my strength, and that I must repose before I could continue my journey.","title":"Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus: Chapter 22","word_count":3424},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_goth_frank_frank28_htm","collection":"Gothic Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_goth_frank_frank28_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"IT WAS eight o'clock when we landed; we walked for a short time on the shore enjoying the transitory light, and then retired to the inn and contemplated the lovely scene of waters, woods, and mountains, obscured in darkness, yet still displaying their black outlines. The wind, which had fallen in the south, now rose with great violence in the west. The moon had reached her summit in the heavens and was beginning to descend -- the clouds swept across it swifter than the flight of the vulture and\u2026","title":"Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus: Chapter 23","word_count":2614},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_goth_frank_frank29_htm","collection":"Gothic Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_goth_frank_frank29_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"MY PRESENT situation was one in which all voluntary thought was swallowed up and lost. I was hurried away by fury; revenge alone endowed me with strength and composure; it moulded my feelings, and allowed me to be calculating and calm, at periods when otherwise delirium or death would have been my portion. My first resolution was to quit Geneva forever; my country, which, when I was happy and beloved, was dear to me, now, in my adversity, became hateful.","title":"Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus: Chapter 24","word_count":8243},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_goth_frank_frank08_htm","collection":"Gothic Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_goth_frank_frank08_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"WHEN I had attained the age of seventeen, my parents resolved that I should become a student at the university of Ingolstadt. I had hitherto attended the schools of Geneva; but my father thought it necessary, for the completion of my education, that I should be made acquainted with other customs than those of my native country. My departure was therefore fixed at an early date; but before the day resolved upon could arrive, the first misfortune of my life occurred -- an omen, as it were, of my\u2026","title":"Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus: Chapter 3","word_count":2700},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_goth_frank_frank09_htm","collection":"Gothic Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_goth_frank_frank09_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"FROM this memorable day natural philosophy, and particularly chemistry, in the most comprehensive sense of the term, became nearly my sole occupation. I read with ardour those works, so full of genius and discrimination, which modern inquirers have written on these subjects. I attended the lectures, and cultivated the acquaintance, of the men of science of the university; and I found even in M.","title":"Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus: Chapter 4","word_count":2550},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_goth_frank_frank11_htm","collection":"Gothic Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_goth_frank_frank11_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"CLERVAL then put the following letter into hands. It was from my own Elizabeth: --\nMy dearest Cousin, -- You have been ill, very ill, and even the constant letters of dear kind Henry are not sufficient to reassure me on your account. You are forbidden to write -- to hold a pen; yet one word from you, dear Victor, is necessary to calm our apprehensions.","title":"Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus: Chapter 6","word_count":2724},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_goth_frank_frank12_htm","collection":"Gothic Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_goth_frank_frank12_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"ON MY return, I found the following letter from my father, --\nMy dear Victor, -- You have probably waited impatiently for a letter to fix the date of your return to us; and I was at first tempted to write only a few lines, merely mentioning the day on which I should expect you. But that would be a cruel kindness, and I dare not do it. What would be your surprise, my son, when you expected a happy and glad welcome, to behold, on the contrary, tears and wretchedness?","title":"Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus: Chapter 7","word_count":3582}],"sort":"title","tag":null,"total":189}