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A chronicle of the Great Death
of Wisborg in the year 1838 A.D.

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Nosferatu! Does not this name sound
like the very midnight call of Death?

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Speak it not aloud, or life's pictures
will turn to pale shadows,
and nightmares will rise up to feed on your blood.

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I have long meditated on the rise and fall of the
Great Death in my home town of Wisborg.

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Here is the story: In Wisborg there lived a man
called Hutter with his young wife Ellen...

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"Why have you destroyed them - the beautiful flowers?"

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"Not so hasty, my young friend!
No one escapes his destiny."

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There was also a house agent called Knock,
a strange man, and the center of much gossip.
One thing was sure: he paid his people well.

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"Count Orlok - His Grace - from Transylvania - wants to
buy a beautiful house - in our little town..."

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"You could make a nice bit of money."

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"You will have a marvellous jorney -
What matter if it costs you a bit of pain -
or even a little blood?"

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"He wants a handsome deserted house..."

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"That house - just opposite yours. Offer him that!"

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"Leave at once, my young friend.
Have a quick journey into the land of phantoms!"

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"I may be away for several month, dear Ellen, away
in a country of ghosts and robbers."

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Thus Hutter gave the grief-stricken woman into the care of
his friends, the rich shipbuilder Harding and Ruth, his sister.

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"Do not fear."

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From relay to relay, through the dust raised by the stages,
Hutter hurried on until the peaks of the Carpathian mountains
loomed up ahead.

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"My dinner - quickly - I must hasten to Count Orlok's castle!"

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"You must leave now! The evil spirits become all-powerful after dark!"

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The Book of the Vampires

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From the seed of Relial came the vampire Nosferatu which liberty and
feedeth on the blood of mankind and abideth,

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unredeemed, in horrible Darkness,
on the cursed earth from the graveyards of the Black Death.

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Nosferatu, a name that ringeth like the cry of a bird of prey.
Speak it not aloud!

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"Drive on! The sun is setting!"

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"We will go no further! Not for a fortune!"

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"We will go no further! Here begins the land of the phantoms!"

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And when he had crossed the bridge, the phantoms came to meet him.

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"You are late, young man. It is almost midnight.
My servants have all retired."

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"Blood! Your precious blood!"

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"Shall we stay up together for awhile?
It is a long time until sunrise during the day,
my friend, I truly sleep the deepest sleep."

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As soon as the sun rose Hutter felt himself
freed from the shadows of the night.

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Dearest Ellen! Do not grieve because your beloved is far away...

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...the mosquitoes are reals pests. I have been stung at the neck by
two at once, very close together, one on each side...

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One's dreams are heavy in this deserted castle, but do not fear...

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With twilight the empty castle came alive again with menacing shadows.

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"Your wife has a beautiful neck..."

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"I shall take the house - the handsome deserted house opposite yours..."

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From the seed of Relial came the vampire Nosferatu which liveth
and feedeth on the blood of mankind and abideth,

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unredeemed, in horrible Darkness,
on the cursed earth from the graveyards of the Black Death.

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At night said Nosferatu sinketh his fangs into victim and feeds
on the blood that constitues his hellish elixir of life.

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At the same hour...

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"Ellen!"

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"Fetch a doctor...a doctor!"

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"Thomas!!!"

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"A harmless blood condition!"

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The doctor described Ellen's anxietes as if the had been trifles.
But I know that in that night her soul had heard the call of death.

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Already, Nosferatu was raising his wings.
And Hutter, far away, had heard her cry of warning.

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"Ellen! Ellen!"

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The raftsmen little suspected what
terrible cargo they carried down the valley.

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"The peasants brought him into the hospital yesterday.
They said he fell from a mountain. He is still feverish."

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"Coffins..."

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Nosferatu was on the way,
and with him catastrophe approached Wisborg.

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Professor Bulwer, who studied the secrets of nature, later told me about it. 

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The Empusa was chartered and carried his coffins filled with earth.

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The ship must set sail this night. 

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Cargo for Empusa
Destination: Wisborg

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At the same time, professor Bulwar explained 
to his pupils the cruelty of carnivorous plants. 

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Nature's secrets were revealed to horrified eyes.

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Is it not... like a vampire!

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Already, Nosferatus's drawing near seemed to
affect Knock, the house agent.

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"The patient who was brought in
yesterday has gone out of his mind!"

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"Blood is life! Blood is life!!!!"

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"And this one..."

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"...a polyp with tentacles..."

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"Transparent - almost without substance..."

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"No more than a phantom..."

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"Spiders-"

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Ellen was often seen alone among the dunes. Longing for her beloved,
she searched the waves and the distant horizon.

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One's dreams are heavy in this deserted castle, but do not fear...

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I am leaving immediately to return to Wisborg - and to you.

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"No I have to get away - reach home by the shortest possible way!"

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New Plague Baffles Science

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"A sailor has fallen ill below deck.
He is talking in a fever."

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Like an epidemic it spread over the entire ship. The first sailor who had
shown the symptoms was followed by the entire crew into the dark grave of
the waters.

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In the light of the setting sun the captain and his first mate said
farewell to the last of their companions.

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"I shall go down! If I haven't come up again within ten minutes..."

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The ship of death had a new captain

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It is a difficult to imagine how young Hutter, his energies sadly
dectimated, managed to surmoung the difficulties of his homeward journey.

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At the same time, driven by the fatal breath of the vampire,
the vessel moved rapidly toward the Baltic.

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"I must go to him. He is approaching!!!"

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The Master is coming! The Master is here!"

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I have given much thought to the notion that Nosferatu travelled
with coffins filled with earth.

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Then I discovered that vampires draw their shadowy power from the
cursed ground in which they are buried.

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"I have examined everything - there is no living soul on board."

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Varna-July 12.
Crew, apart from myself, the captain-one helmsman,
one mate, and five sailors. Departing for the Dardanellas.

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2nd day: July 13.
One sailor has contracted a fever. Course: SSW. Direction of wind:

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3nd day: July 14.
Mate has begun to hallicunate, says a strange passenger is below deck.
Course:SE. Direction of wind: NE. Volume of wind:3.6

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10th day: 22 July.
Passed Gibraltar - Panic on board - Three men dead already -
mate out of his mind - Rats in the hold - I fear the plague...

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"The plague is upon us! Go home! Shut all your windows and doors!"

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All citizens are notified that the honourable magistrate of this town
prohibits the moving of plague-victims

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into hospitals to prevent the plague from spreading through the streets.

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Hutter had made Ellen promise not to touch the book which had given
him such terrifying hallucinations.

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Yet she was unable to withstand its strange fascination.

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One can recognize that mark of the vampire by the trace of his
fangs on the victim's throat.

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"Look! Every night, in front of me..."

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Panic seized the people. Who was sick or dying?
Who would be stricken tomorrow?

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"I shall run over there quickly. I shall get Sievers..."

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Wherefore there is no salvation therefrom except that a woman pure
in heart were to make the vampire forget the cock's first crowing.

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Of her own free will would she have to give him her blood.

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The panic-stricken town was looking for a scape-goat. It chose Knock.

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"They saw him escape - he strangled his keeper!"

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"He strangled him! The vampire!"

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"Bulwer! Fetch Bulwer!"

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"Master! Master! Beware!"

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"The master...is...dead."

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"Thomas!"

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And the miracle shall be told in truth.
At that very hour the Great Death ceased and

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the shadow of the empire vanished as if
overcome by the victorious rays of the living sun.

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The End