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The Snake's Pass

Chapter 1: Transcriber’s Notes
By Bram Stoker
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Narrative unfolds in a rugged mountain-and-coast landscape where a recently arrived narrator experiences a personal awakening while becoming enmeshed in local mysteries. Plot threads include the discovery of a missing golden crown, enigmatic bog secrets, a vanished person, and a nocturnal treasure hunt that escalates to a dire warning and a catastrophic episode followed by resolution. Character interactions mix confidences, courtship, and rivalry, while episodic chapters balance atmospheric natural description with suspense and moral reflection on fate, legacy, and the perilous interplay between human desire and landscape.

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Title: The Snake's Pass

Author: Bram Stoker

Release date: September 11, 2022 [eBook #68966]
Most recently updated: October 19, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United Kingdom: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington Ltd, 1891

Credits: The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

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Transcriber’s Notes

Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Variations in hyphenation and accents have been standardised but all other spelling and punctuation remains unchanged.

  • Knock-na-callte-crōin-ōir appears with six different spellings.
  • Knock-na-callte-ōir
  • Knockcalltecrore
  • Knockcalltore
  • Knockalltecrore
  • Knockaltecrore

THE SNAKE’S PASS.