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My
father
has
a
copy
of
the
report
of
the
Imperial
Commission
,
with
the
signatures
of
all
who
were
present
at
these
proceedings
,
attached
in
verification
of
the
statement
.
It
is
from
this
official
paper
that
I
have
summarized
my
account
of
this
last
shocking
scene
.
I
write
all
this
you
suppose
with
composure
.
But
far
from
it
;
I
can
not
think
of
it
without
agitation
.
Nothing
but
your
earnest
desire
so
repeatedly
expressed
,
could
have
induced
me
to
sit
down
to
a
task
that
has
unstrung
my
nerves
for
months
to
come
,
and
reinduced
a
shadow
of
the
unspeakable
horror
which
years
after
my
deliverance
continued
to
make
my
days
and
nights
dreadful
,
and
solitude
insupportably
terrific
.
Let
me
add
a
word
or
two
about
that
quaint
Baron
Vordenburg
,
to
whose
curious
lore
we
were
indebted
for
the
discovery
of
the
Countess
Mircalla
's
grave
.
He
had
taken
up
his
abode
in
Gratz
,
where
,
living
upon
a
mere
pittance
,
which
was
all
that
remained
to
him
of
the
once
princely
estates
of
his
family
,
in
Upper
Styria
,
he
devoted
himself
to
the
minute
and
laborious
investigation
of
the
marvelously
authenticated
tradition
of
Vampirism
.
He
had
at
his
fingers
'
ends
all
the
great
and
little
works
upon
the
subject
.
"
Magia
Posthuma
,
"
"
Phlegon
de
Mirabilibus
,
"
"
Augustinus
de
cura
pro
Mortuis
,
"
"
Philosophicae
et
Christianae
Cogitationes
de
Vampiris
,
"
by
John
Christofer
Herenberg
;
and
a
thousand
others
,
among
which
I
remember
only
a
few
of
those
which
he
lent
to
my
father
.
He
had
a
voluminous
digest
of
all
the
judicial
cases
,
from
which
he
had
extracted
a
system
of
principles
that
appear
to
govern
--
some
always
,
and
others
occasionally
only
--
the
condition
of
the
vampire
.
I
may
mention
,
in
passing
,
that
the
deadly
pallor
attributed
to
that
sort
of
revenants
,
is
a
mere
melodramatic
fiction
.
They
present
,
in
the
grave
,
and
when
they
show
themselves
in
human
society
,
the
appearance
of
healthy
life
.
When
disclosed
to
light
in
their
coffins
,
they
exhibit
all
the
symptoms
that
are
enumerated
as
those
which
proved
the
vampire-life
of
the
long-dead
Countess
Karnstein
.
How
they
escape
from
their
graves
and
return
to
them
for
certain
hours
every
day
,
without
displacing
the
clay
or
leaving
any
trace
of
disturbance
in
the
state
of
the
coffin
or
the
cerements
,
has
always
been
admitted
to
be
utterly
inexplicable
.
The
amphibious
existence
of
the
vampire
is
sustained
by
daily
renewed
slumber
in
the
grave
.
Its
horrible
lust
for
living
blood
supplies
the
vigor
of
its
waking
existence
.
The
vampire
is
prone
to
be
fascinated
with
an
engrossing
vehemence
,
resembling
the
passion
of
love
,
by
particular
persons
.
In
pursuit
of
these
it
will
exercise
inexhaustible
patience
and
stratagem
,
for
access
to
a
particular
object
may
be
obstructed
in
a
hundred
ways
.
It
will
never
desist
until
it
has
satiated
its
passion
,
and
drained
the
very
life
of
its
coveted
victim
.
But
it
will
,
in
these
cases
,
husband
and
protract
its
murderous
enjoyment
with
the
refinement
of
an
epicure
,
and
heighten
it
by
the
gradual
approaches
of
an
artful
courtship
.
In
these
cases
it
seems
to
yearn
for
something
like
sympathy
and
consent
.
In
ordinary
ones
it
goes
direct
to
its
object
,
overpowers
with
violence
,
and
strangles
and
exhausts
often
at
a
single
feast
.
The
vampire
is
,
apparently
,
subject
,
in
certain
situations
,
to
special
conditions
.
In
the
particular
instance
of
which
I
have
given
you
a
relation
,
Mircalla
seemed
to
be
limited
to
a
name
which
,
if
not
her
real
one
,
should
at
least
reproduce
,
without
the
omission
or
addition
of
a
single
letter
,
those
,
as
we
say
,
anagrammatically
,
which
compose
it
.
Carmilla
did
this
;
so
did
Millarca
.
