SOURCE: Dracula's Guest (1914) by Bram Stoker

DESCRIPTION: "...I felt a warm rasping at my throat, then came a consciousness of the awful truth which chilled me to the heart and sent the blood surging up through my brain.  Some great animal was lying on me and now licking my throat.  I feared to stir, for some instinct of prudence bade me lie still; but the brute seemed to realize that there was now some change in me, for it raised its head.  Through my eyelashes I saw above me the two great flaming eyes of a gigantic wolf.  Its sharp white teeth gleamed in the gaping red mouth, and I could feel its hot breath fierce and acrid upon me."

PLOT: Englishman, Jonathan Harker, does not listen to his superstitious coach driver about the terrors of Walpurgis Nacht, and goes walking down a deserted road that leads to a village that no one goes to any more. A snow storm drives him into the old graveyard where he sees a dead woman with full red lips. The terrors of the night when the dead walk and the minus zero temperatures are staved off by a large wolf with red eyes that lies on top of Harker, licking his throat. A search party finds the missing tourist through the wolf's barking and a mysterious telegram sent by Count Dracula.

WEREWOLF FACTS: The werewolf is of course Count Dracula, making sure Jonathan Harker will survive long enough to come to Castle Dracula. The count turns into a wolf later in the novel, when the ship that is bringing him to England comes to shore with all hands dead. A wolf jumps off the boat and disappears. In 1897 readers immediately associated werewolves and vampires. Hollywood would separate them again. Some legends say a man who was a werewolf in life will return as a vampire in death.

INTERESTING FACTS: This story was originally the first chapter of Dracula. The publishers cut it because the book was too long. Stoker's widow published it in 1914 in a collection of stories called Dracula's Guest.