📖 A relaxing read aloud audiobook excerpt — ideal for unwinding, walking, studying, or resting. 🎧 A haunting, atmospheric read aloud from Bram Stoker’s Dracula — where travel turns uncanny, hospitality conceals menace, and reason falters in the shadow of the Carpathians.Perfect for listeners who enjoy Gothic classics, slow-building dread, psychological unease, and iconic moments of supernatural literature. 🎧 Audiobook Excerpt from Bram Stoker’s DraculaRead by Chapter Breaks – Short Literary Escapes. Classic audio pills for your commute, bedtime unwind, or a break anytime. At Chapter Breaks, we carefully select and curate iconic passages from classic novels — timeless openings, dramatic turning points, or unforgettable character introductions. Each episode is around 20–30 minutes, designed to let you dip into great literature without the commitment of a full audiobook. Bram Stoker – Dracula – Chapter II. A welcome at midnight — and the prison reveals itself. In this extended excerpt from Jonathan Harker’s journal, we follow his arrival at Castle Dracula: a fortress of stone and shadow, where doors lock silently behind him and time seems to lose its meaning. Greeted by a host of unnerving courtesy and inhuman strength, Harker is drawn into a world governed by strange rules — mirrors vanish, servants never appear, and the night stretches on without sleep. As meals are taken alone and wolves howl beyond the walls, unease hardens into certainty. The Count speaks lovingly of England, of mastery and exile, of shadows and solitude — while Harker begins to understand that hospitality here is not freedom. By dawn, the truth becomes impossible to deny: the castle is sealed, the exits barred, and he himself is trapped. This is Dracula at its most hypnotic: dread unfolding slowly, terror whispered rather than shouted, and the Gothic imagination at full power. We are about to step across the threshold — where welcome masks danger, and the night does not easily release its guests. Let’s open the page together; your chapter break begins now.
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