leslie s. klinger, who had access to stoker's original "dracula" manuscript while researching his 2008 book "the new annotated dracula", saw evidence of "dracula's guest" having been deleted from the manuscript, such as a deleted sentence of harker commenting that his throat is "still sore from the licking of the gray wolf's file-like tongue" and the first and second chapters of the finished novel being labeled in the manuscript as "ii" and "iii". klinger ultimately concludes the following: