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The only sounds you hear as you cut across the verdant lawn onto the faded wooden bridge are the babbling of the river below and the footsteps of your fellow audience members. The midsection of the ...

Show of hands: does anybody else want to live in Count Orlok's castle? Surely it can't be just me, as I don't know how you can't be pulled in by the mystique of his grand catacomb of a home. Robert ...