Los dientes del murciélago

# Catalog Note

"Los dientes del murciélago" (The Teeth of the Bat) by Curtis Garland is a vampire horror novella presented as the diary of Gordon Rose, a London gentleman stranded in Transylvania by snowstorms. After attending a village dance where he meets the young woman Dobrinka, Rose leaves his window open and is bitten during the night by what he initially believes is an ordinary vampire bat. The narrative shifts between Rose's initial skepticism of local superstitions—he has brought a copy of Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) and dismissed the region's folklore—and growing horror as village doctor Laszlo Kosic informs him the bat was actually a supernatural vampire. The story explores Rose's realization that he has been infected with vampirism and now faces transformation into one of the undead. The narrative blends rationalist dismissal with mounting dread as supernatural reality proves undeniable.