Dracula Arisen by Perry Lake

Author:Perry Lake
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Horror
Publisher: Double Dragon Publishing
Published: 2014-06-08T16:00:00+00:00

"NECROLOGIA"

26 August 1764

Breslau inReichenau

I, Leopold Reichmann, respectfully submit this report to my superiors with the hope that they will take timely action on this matter as I have pieced it together.

As Chief Inspector of the Reichenau region of Schlesien for the past two years, I have found the valley to be home to a peaceful and superstitious people known for their diligence in producing crops of fine quality turnips and potatoes. The soil is considered excellent for anything that grows under it.

The trouble began this April or possibly earlier in late March in the villages of Grossporitch and Kleinschِnau or Sieniacka in the Slavic tongue, both on the Miedzianka River. Perhaps "trouble" is not the correct word. Nonetheless, at that time there was a notable rise in the death rate. There were four murders, all apparently unrelated save that no murderer had been found. There were five deaths by misadventure with the only relationship being a lack of witnesses. There were two suicides, which created the most fervor, since the people of this region still employ the ancient custom of burying suicides by the crossroads and fixing them into the ground with a wooden stake through their hearts. Lastly, there were almost a dozen natural deaths and so I asked Dr. Ludwig Kramer to accompany me and examine the bodies and some of those who were stricken ill to determine if this indicated an outbreak of plague. Yet this seemed odd to me at the time since all of the victims were young.

There had been nearly a score of deaths before I first visited the villages on the 27th of May. Dr. Kramer and I stayed at the inn of the village of Kleinschِnau, a place that had no name. In Kleinschِnau there is a small church with a vicar, Josef Klenze, and a novice priest, Franz Vogel. The headman or mayor is a Slovak named Arnold.

I returned a day later to Reichenau to make my first report which I now consider to be in error. As you will recall, my colonel, I then determined that the deaths were unrelated, save that perhaps sanitation could be improved.

The vicar stated that he had some suspicion of the reason for these tragedies but he would not reveal his theory at that time. He only said that he had sent a request via the post wagon to a colleague in Prague for a book he seemed to think would explain things.

My next visit was on the eighth of June and I came alone save for my sergeant-at-arms, Mueller. There had come a message that seven more villagers had died.

I arrived late in the evening and went straight to the inn where I was surprised to find half the village gathered in the public room. They had been talking in a festive mood but became silent as they saw me. The vicar and a large Slav seemed to be the center of attention. Both were bruised and the vicar's arm and head were bandaged.

I inquired as to what had happened and they all looked nervous and appeared unwilling to speak.

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