Introduction Authors often resort to the first person narrative when writing their great novels. This helps authors create a very special atmosphere of a person’s confession. Authors manage to reveal the deepest emotions which become so true to life. Bram Stoker and Angela Carter created really specific confessions which can be regarded as semi-realistic. The works by the two authors are fables, but, at the same time, they reveal inner world of the two real individuals. Notably, the two authors resort to different means to tell their stories and make people feel particular emotions. The two writers use different means to uncover their inner worlds. However, the common feature of their works is intimacy which is created with the help of specific tools. To take a closer look at these points, it is possible to analyse the narrative voices in such works as Dracula by Bram Stoker, “The Courtship of Mr Lyon”, “The Tiger’s Bride” and “The Bloody Chamber” by Angela Carter. Thus, the major peculiarity of these works is specific intimacy. However, it is also necessary to understand which tools the authors exploit to achieve their goals. The most overt tools used are epistolary narrative voice, character narrative voice and third-person subjective narrative voice combined with stream of consciousness voice. These narrative voices help the authors create a really special atmosphere of intimacy. Intimacy As has been mentioned above, the works in question have specific narratives. The authors do not alienate themselves. Thus, Dracula is a compilation of various personal documents (diaries, personal letters, etc.). The reader is forced to believe that the story is “an entirely true account of extraordinary events” (Johnson 2009, p. 73). The characters are really precise when noting some facts (dates, names, addresses, etc.). They are also concerned with revealing their ideas, emotions, thoughts. Thus, Jonathan Harker writes about a really intimate subject (i.e. religion) in his journal: “It is odd that a thing which I have been taught to regard with disfavour and as idolatrous should in time of loneliness and trouble be of help” (Stoker 1986, p. 29). Admittedly, people tend to think of such topics a lot without sharing them with strangers or even some close people. Likewise, Angela Carter uses similar approach. Though she does not write epistolary stories, she tells the story in the first person. For instance, in “The Bloody Chamber” the girl (the heroine of the story) reveals her feelings and her excitement concerning her marriage: I remember how, that night, I lay awake in … delicious ecstasy of excitement” that the train bore her “away from girlhood… into the unguessable country of marriage. (Carter 1995a, p. 1) Thus, the reader feels the anxiety of the girl who is about to become a mature woman. Likewise, the story “The Courtship of Mr Lyon” reveals the inner world of the girl who has to save her father sacrificing herself. The words “I hope he’ll be safe” can be regarded as a kind of motto of the heroine (Carter 1995b, p. 43). Interestingly, even though there is a narrator in the story, it is still intimate as the story is full of remarks and ideas which belong to the gir