Dracula by Bram Stoker chapter 6, narrated by Isaac Birchall

Mina and Lucy meet in Whitby on the Yorkshire coast. It is a very picturesque town with a beautiful old red roofs and a ruined abbey which was sacked by the Danes. There is however a newer church with a graveyard that looks out onto the harbour. There are two lighthouses that overlook the sea that protect the incoming boats from the green reef which could easily wreck any ship that maybe fall onto them. Mina meets an old sailor who is near on a hundred years old with a very thick accent who Mina wants to interrogate with questions about the superstitions of the area.
The following day, both Mina and Lucy meet with the old man. He tells her that all of the ghost stories are nothing but nonsense that was invented to scare people or persuade them to do things that they usually wouldn’t. He also tells the two that the majority of graves are empty, the majority lost at sea, so there aren’t any bodies to make ghosts of. They continue to discuss the grave with the old man until late into the evening when he runs off home where his daughter is waiting for him with supper. After he leaves the two discuss Lucy’s upcoming marriage and it makes Mina very sad as she has not heard from Johnathan for a month.
Dr Seward writes more on Renfield, his lunatic patient. He notes that Renfield loves animals, and that he collects flies, using some of his dinner rations to catch them. Renfield disgusts Seward quite a lot by eating flies and spiders. After a few days, Seward is confused again as it seems that Renfield has gotten himself a sparrow, then a few days later a whole colony of birds. Renfield then asks for a kitten, and Seward really starts to fear the man, a truly homicidal maniac. The next day, Seward visits Renfield again, and finds him laying sugar of the windowsill looking to catch flies. The birds are gone, and when Seward asks what happened, Renfield replies that they flew away, but there are several feathers about the room, and a drop of blood on the pillow. Seward concludes that Renfield is eating his pets, and longs to test Renfield and see how far he would go, but knows that it would be frowned upon by his peers.
Mina Murray again continues her journal. She writes that she is unhappy about Lucy and Johnathan. She eventually receives a forwarded letter from Johnathan’s boss saying that he is about to start for home, but the letter seems very un-Johnathan-like. Lucy has also started sleepwalking again, and Lucy’s mother implores Mina to help Lucy by locking the door to their room every night so that she does not go outside in a sleeping state. As the days go by, there is still no news from Johnathan and Mina become the more and more uneasy. A week later there is still no sign from Johnathan, and Lucy’s sleep walking is getting worse. A few days go by, and a great storm starts looming over the sea, great clouds almost black overhead, and all of the fishing boats hurry back into the harbour for shelter. Mr Swales greets Mina on the cliffside, and he apologises for his behaviour of the previous couple of days, and excuses himself by saying that he fears that the reaper is coming for him, and that he just needs to make light of the situation. He then gets up from his seat, and wanders off.

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