Quotes About Bram Stoker

Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' was a story about the fear of immigration; the bad old bloodsucker swooping in from Eastern Europe and also preying upon 'our' vulnerable women.

I thought I was going to be a horror story writer. My influences were horror writers, like Rich Matheson, Ray Bradbury and Bram Stoker.

I love all that kind of gothic Bram Stoker kind of thing. I love to get lost in that kind of escapism.

Bram Stoker's 'Dracula,' in my reading, is really obviously about disease and our relation to disease.

Look, Mr. uh, Wulf I appreciate your trying to warn me about this, Ireally do. But there's no such thing as vampires. They're made-up. We writers made them up. I'm sorry we did such a good job that we made the whole world paranoid, but it's true. They're fictional. Blame Bram Stoker. He started it.

I bear messages which will make both your ears tingle.

And then away for home! Away to the quickest and nearest train! Away from this cursed land, where the devil and his children stil walk with earthly feet!

You might as well ask a man to eat molecules with a pair of chop-sticks, as to try to interest me, about the lesser carnivora, when I know of what is before me.

I asked Dr. Seward to give me a little opiate of some kind, as I had not slept well the night before......I hope I have not done wrong, for as sleep begins to flirt with me, a new fear comes: that I may have been foolish in thus depriving myself of the power of waking. I might want it. Here comes sleep. Goodnight.

a wind howling began, which seemed to form all over the country, as far as the imagination could grasp it through the gloom of the night.

Count comes from a wolf country, and it may be that he shall get there before us. I propose that we add Winchesters to our armament. I have a kind of belief in a Winchester when there is any trouble of that sort around.

his open nostril quivered with intent.

She had been to a tea-party with an antediluvian monster, and that they had been waited on by up-to-date men-servants.

I had for breakfast more paprika, and a sort of porridge of maize flour which they said was mamaliga, and egg-plant stuffed with forcemeat, a very excellent dish, which they call impletata. (Mem.,get recipe for this also.)

I am getting quite uneasy about him, though why I should I do not know, but I do wish that he would write, if it were only a single line

I am deeper in death at this moment than if the weight of an earthly grave lay heavy upon me!

Seeing from his violent demeanor that he was English, they gave him a ticket for the furthest station on the way thither that the train reached.

His face fell, and I could see a warning of danger in it, for there was a sudden fierce, sidelong look which meant killing.

I am too miserable, too low spirited, too sick of the world and all in it, including life itself, that I would not care if I heard this moment the flapping of the wings of the angel of death.

I was not able to light on any map or work giving the exact locality of the Castle Dracula, as there are no maps of this country as yet to compare with our own Ordnance Survey Maps; but I found that Bistritz, the post town named by Count Dracula, is a fairly well-known place. I shall enter here some of my notes, as they may refresh my memory when I talk over my travels with Mina.

Mina and I fear to be idle, so we have been over all the diaries again and again. Somehow, although the reality seem greater each time, the pain and the fear seem less.

I said interrogatively:— "Count Dracula?" He bowed in a courtly way as he replied:— "I am Dracula; and I bid you welcome, Mr. Harker, to my house.

How well the man reasoned; lunatics always do within their own scope. I wonder at how many lives he values a man, or if at only one.

Towards morning I slept and was wakened by the continuous knocking at my door, so I guess