George Sylvester Viereck

The House of the Vampire Annotated George Sylvester Viereck

He felt the existence of the hand of Reginald Clarke - unmistakably - groping in his mind as though attempting to find something that had nevertheless escaped him. He attempted to move, to cry out, however his limbs have been paralyzed. When, via way of means of a superhuman effort, he later succeeded in shaking off the numbness that held him bound, he wakened simply in time to peer a figure, that of a man, disappearing withinside the wall that separated Reginald's residences from his room.