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marked the joys of his childhood. After observing “the master’s window swinging open” (WH-p.283) after a rainstorm, the next day Nelly entered Heathcliff’s room and found him laying on his back. “His eyes met mine so keen and fierce, I started; and then, he seemed to smile.” (WH-p.283) This happiness parallels the Count’s at the time of his death. Heathcliff’s soul had departed during a rainstorm, a quintessential gothic image symbolizing a renewal of like through cleansing. The opening of Heathcliff’s window further emphasizes his unification with the fierce nature he embraced. He is happy now because he is united with Catherine, the soul mate who too embraced the calamity of nature as a child of the storm. The two still haunt the moors which they once played endlessly. A little sheep boy claims to have seen “Heathcliff, and a woman, yonder, under t’Nab.” (WH-p.284) “Heathcliff and Cathy may be dead, but in dying they become transformed into a symbolic symbol meaning that, projected onto nature, renders nature itself ghostly.”38 Although Heathcliff is a human being and Dracula is a super a natural being (vampyr) imposing insidious effects on civilization, Heathcliff is no less a monster. The gothic hero/villain of the Romantic Movement, has such a great effect on the reader as a result of the duality and mysterious characteristics presented. The attraction of these novels can be expressed through what “H.P. Lovecraft, said, was ‘the scratching of unknown claws at the rind of the known world.’ This is certainly what one hears in the passages of the great writers who have forced their way into this essay, the sound, however intermittent, is unmistakable and unforgettable.”