"Welcome to my house! Enter freely and of your own free will!"
He made no motion of stepping to meet me,
but stood like a
statue,as though
his gesture of welcome had fixed him into stone.
The instant, however, that I had
stepped over the threshold,
he moved impulsively forward,
and holding out his hand grasped mine
with a strength which made me wince,
an effect which
was not lessened
by the fact that it seemed
cold as ice, more like the hand
of a dead than a living man."
Excerpt taken from
"Dracula"
by
Bram Stoker
