https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/31/horror-authors-spookiest-books-anne-rice-dracula-lauren-beukes

Anne Rice explains why she’s too frightened to finish Dracula, Lauren Beukes recalls a horrifying graphic novel and others share their most haunting reads

Two scenes come to mind immediately. As a child I tried to read the original Dracula but a scene in the early pages with the vampires absolutely horrified me: where the count drives his vampire brides away from the helpless mortal, Jonathan Harker. It’s then that a sack is revealed and inside it a wailing, half-smothered child, which the count gives to these vampire women. This so scared, so shocked, so horrified me, that I abandoned the book and took it back to the library. I have not, to this day, read Dracula in its entirety.