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Chiquon and Cochegrue, from Count Dracula more
dracula, nighttime, turrets, churches, fear, gothic architecture, drawings
(From Doré’s “Contes Drolatiques.”)
Here we see two people, one with an arm raised, running across an empty courtyard: empty except for a black dog or cat running in the other direction.
All around are tall dark and foreboding buildings with steep Gothic turrets, a melodramatically creepy town!
[Doré] may be said to have read in pictures; and his fa cility in reproducing his reading in graphic form has enabled millions of people to realise a great number of things that, but for him, must always have remained obscure and unintelligible. For these he has identified himself for long with some of the greatest books in all literature. (p. 227)
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