Dracula

The road was rugged, but still we seemed to fly over it with a feverish haste.

By its light I saw around us a ring of wolves, with white teeth and lolling red tongues. They were a hundred times more terrible in the grim silence which held them than even when they howled.

Suddenly, away on our left, I saw a faint flickering blue flame. The driver saw it at the same moment; he at once checked the horses, and, jumping to the ground, disappeared into the darkness.

A vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the moonlit sky.

The castle is on the very edge of a terrible precipice. A stone falling from the window would fall a thousand feet without touching anything!

I heard a heavy step approaching behind the great door, and saw through the chinks the gleam of a coming light. Then there was the sound of rattling chains and the clanking of massive bolts drawn back.