Bloodline by Kate Cary

Author:Kate Cary [Cary, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4052-5937-8
Publisher: Egmont
Published: 2010-08-29T04:00:00+00:00

As I read this, I remembered John wanting to kill and eat the rat he caught. I wondered if Renfield’s haunting presence might have affected him in some supernatural way….

Just a week ago, I would have considered such a possibility ridiculous. Now I know that there truly are monsters in the world. Any of the horrors that haunt us as children may resurrect themselves to threaten us now.

“Look at this,” John said, handing me a book from the pile. “Professor Van Helsing was an old mentor of your father’s—a philosopher and a metaphysician—and an expert in obscure diseases. His help was sought when Dracula preyed upon one Lucy Westenra. Dracula desired Lucy. He came to her repeatedly and slowly drained her blood….”

I read the pages that John had given me.

She was ghastly, chalky pale. The red seemed to have gone even from her lips and gums, and the bones of her face stood out prominently…. Van Helsing’s face grew set as marble, and his eyebrows converged till they almost touched over his nose. Lucy lay motionless and did not seem to have strength to speak. Van Helsing beckoned to me, and we went gently out of the room…. “My God!” he said. “This is dreadful. There is not time to be lost. She will die for sheer want of blood….”

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