Quotes About Bram Stoker

Quincey and I will find a locksmith. You had better not come with us in case there should be any difficulty; for under the circumstances it wouldn't seem so bad for us to break into an empty house. But you are a solicitor and the Incorporated Law Society might tell you that you should have known better.

These companions', and he laid his hand on some of the books- 'have been good friends to me.

When the Count saw my face, his eyes blazed with a sort of demoniac fury, and he suddenly made a grab at my throat.

How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads, to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams. Well, here I am tonight, hoping for sleep, and lying like Ophelia in the play, with 'virgin crants and maiden strewments.' I never liked garlic before, but tonight it is delightful! There is peace in its smell. I feel sleep coming already. Goodnight, everybody. DR.

Death had given back part of her beauty, for her brow and cheeks had recovered some of their flowing lines.

It is the eve of St. George's Day. Do you not know that to-night, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway?

Did he get his brain fever, and then write all those terrible things, or had he some cause for it all? I suppose I shall never know, for I dare not open the subject to him. And yet that man we saw yesterday! He

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. In

When she saw my face at the window she threw herself forward, and shouted in a voice laden with menace, "Monster, give me my child!

Some girls are so vain! You and I, Mina dear, who are engaged and are going to settle down soon soberly into old married women, can despise vanity. Well

stregoica"—witch, "vrolok" and "vlkoslak"—both of which mean the same thing, one being Slovak and the other Servian for something that is either were-wolf or vampire. (Mem., I must ask the Count about these superstitions)

I must regret that an attack of gout, from which malady I am a constant sufferer

One of my companions whispered to another the line from Burger's "Lenore":— "Denn die Todten reiten schnell"— ("For the dead travel fast.")

Love has a modesty of its own, whose lines are boldly drawn, and whose rules are stern.

There was a pity in her eyes which gave me some comfort, though not much; a man whose soul is crying out for love does not want pity.

he hoped he'd go to hell, for his mother was so pious that she'd be sure to go to heaven

God preserve my sanity, for to this I am reduced.

in doubt, and so have done the best thing I know of. I have written to my old friend and master, Professor Van Helsing, of Amsterdam

there was a dread loneliness in the place which chilled my heart and made my nerves tremble.

there is hardly a foot of soil in all this region that has not been enriched by the blood of men, patriots or invaders.

Your friend, Dracula.

It is the eve of St. George's Day. Do you not know that to-night, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway?

when the struggle for existence was so savage that no vitality which was not founded in a gigantic form could have even a possibility of survival.

Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that the gothic genre has continued to flourish and evolve since the days of Bram Stoker, producing some of its most interesting and accomplished examples in the 20th century - in literature, film and beyond.