Gerard lived two years in Transylvania as an officer’s wife and set down everything: the Saxons, Hungarians and Romanians and their mutual opinions, the villages and their economies, the church festivals, and the folklore — including the vampire beliefs that Bram Stoker read here and put straight into Dracula.
The book Bram Stoker mined for Dracula, and a fine piece of travel writing. Download the free EPUB.