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When I decided to reread Bram Stoker’s Dracula, what I wanted to know was whether I could experience horror as I did when I read the novel first as a schoolboy more than half a century ago. I had tried to experience spiritual feelings while attending certain Christian and Hindu religious functions, and failed. Nothing happened whatever. On the contrary, I was struck by the sheer absurdity of many of the rituals and their mumbo-jumbo. Dracula had a similar impact when I revisited him...
