Chapter 16
'The Thing in the coffin writhed; and a hideous, blood-curdling screech came from the opened red lips... but Arthur never faltered. He looked like a figure of Thor.' - the infamous staking passage.
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From Dracula by Bram Stoker
Arthur drives the stake through his undead fiancee while she writhes - a climactic scene long read as ritualized sexual violence restoring patriarchal order.
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