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PREFACE

This gruesoe adventure, which I have decided to disclose to the world, fell into h it had rained down fro or editing

It was an autuht I had boarded one of the last ferries from Göztepe to Haydarpasa It was very crowded When we arrived at Haydarpasa Pier, everyone gathered at the side of the ferry to disembark I was a little slow because I had been absorbed in my paper When I stood up from the bench there was no one else around me, but I spied a pile of documents wrapped in old newspaper and picked it up I wanted to an to rush to the bridge and it was every man for himself The few people I asked said that the papers did not belong to them So in the end, the bundle came home with me The next day I put a public notice in the newspaper with my address Fifteen days passed, but no one answered Finally I opened the parcel, which consisted of papers written in several different hands, and read through the state of curiosity and excitees had been plucked from journals of various shapes and sizes and appeared to have been written by both men and women All of this added an eerie sense of reality to the adventure

It appears that the pieces of this adventure had been taken from the diaries of the people involved, and then put into chronological order along with sohtening continuation and conclusion of those begun centuries ago, really occur in those desolate, mysterious corners of Istanbul? If not, then what is theof the documents I hold? Those who doubt what I have said may come and see these papers for themselves

CHAPTER I

FROM THE DIARY OF AZMI BEY, A YOUNG ISTANBUL ATTORNEY

3 May (Town of Bistriç - Transylvania)—I arrived in Vienna on the second of May I only briefly glimpsed Budapest froateway fro the Danube River, babbling like a living testareat and famous race, the train carried me to places closely connected with Turkish history Deep inside s fluttered and thrilled reat sense of national pride What a s are! The sweet, endless immortality of human societies!

Before leaving Istanbul I read with great interest about Transylvania, historically called “Erdel” in Turkish, which sawthe recent conflicts in Europe Not only did it make this unexpected trip more productive and enjoyable, but itwith a Transylvanian noble

I gathered fro that the district this nobleion of the Carpathian Mountains, standing at the easternmost end of Transylvania, on the borders of Moldavia and Bukovina As I understand from books and maps, this is one of the least known areas of the European continent

I was not able to find aCastle Dracula, but the town of Bistriç, which was described by Count Dracula as the postal and coion, is indeed a well-known and lively place