Dracula by Bram Stoker chapter 7, narrated by Isaac Birchall

Two newspaper clippings that Mina stuck in her journal, indicate that the rogue ship that the coastguard pointed out to Mina, a cargo ship called the Demeter has washed up on the Whitby coast. The crew of the ship is nowhere to be found, and the only being to be found on the ship was the captain, dead, and strapped to the wheel, clutching a crucifix. When the ship crashed ashore, a great dog leaped from the hold, and fled away from the ship, running up the steps and away into the countryside. The only cargo, a large number of wooden boxes were delivered to a Whitby solicitor.
The captain’s log was found on his body, and in the following newspaper clipping, the Demeter’s voyage from Russia to England was detailed. The trip started as normal as any other, but after ten days, a crewmember went missing. Shortly after, another crewmate claimed to see a tall thin man who was definitely not a crewmate in the hold. A search of the ship found no stowaways, but every day following the search, a crewmate went missing. The whole crew started to become numb with fear, and the First Mate began to go mad. By the time the ship came in sight of the English coast, only four men were still around to help sail the vessel. But just as they set sail a great fog set in, preventing them from getting near the coast. Another two sailors disappeared in the fog, and the first mate went below deck to see if he could find them. He however let out a great wail, and ran onto deck and threw himself into the English sea. That night, the captain tied himself to the wheel of the ship, determined to stay with his ship until the very end.
After the newspaper clippings end, Mina recounts her own story of the night of the storm, and her fears for Johnathan and Lucy’s continued sleepwalking. The following day, the Sea captain was found dead in the seat in the graveyard that overlooks the harbour. This seems only to agitate Lucy more…

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