“The man whirled, his hands still gripping the animal's skin, his face perfectly illuminated by the fire. He was half in shadow, and the shadow revealed him slowly. His left eye was covered by a black leather patch, and thin white scar raked his brow and the cheekbone below. The carried on, down the length of his neck, into the thick black beard, twisting under his collarbone and around his torso. They marred only the skin, I noted, for the muscles beneath were whole and strong, and the entire impression was one of great vitality and energy, strength unbridled. He looked nothing so much as a fallen god working at a trade. "Hephaestus at the forge," I murmured, recalling my mythology....” MythologyStokerVeronica Speedwell Book:A Curious Beginning Source: A Curious Beginning
“The requiem of the twain was the roar of the breaking waves and the scream of the white birds that circled round the Watter's Mou'.” Bram StokerStokerBram Book:The Watter's Mou' Source: The Watter's Mou'
“The warlike days are over. Blood is too precious a thing in these days of dishonorable peace; and the glories of the great races are as a tale that is told.” WarPeaceDraculaStoker Book:Dracula Source: Dracula
“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.” FilmLiteratureInterestingCenturyExampleReaderTruth IsEvolveGenreAccomplished20th CenturyCastlesGothicMost InterestingGloomySinisterStoker Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“Kim Newman brings Dracula back home in the granddaddy of all vampire adventures. Anno Dracula couldn't be more fun if Bram Stoker had scripted it for Hammer. It's a beautifully constructed Gothic epic that knocks almost every other vampire novel out for the count.” IfsHomeFunNovelAdventureVampireEpicHammersGothicBack HomeKimNewmanGranddaddyStoker Author:Christopher Fowler
“Ever since I arrived in America to promote Stoker, I haven't had time to go and see it in a theater. The fact that I had to shoot twice as fast as I'm used to in Korea was the most challenging thing about my Hollywood experience.” FactsAmericaUsedChallengesHavensHollywoodTheaterKoreaStoker Author:Park Chan-wook
“We are all of us invented. We are all of us cobbled together from cartilage and dust. Few of us know with certainty the name of our maker. But I do... Bram Stoker.” KnowsTogetherNamesDustCertaintyMakersStoker Book:Dracula Source: Dracula
“I went to a French school, so we didn't study Bram Stoker there. I just thought it was a genius thing.” SchoolStudyGeniusStoker Author:Oliver Jackson-Cohen
“A man must choose his own way of life, and…it is only by following out one’s own bent that there can be the really harmonious life.” [In an interview conducted by Bram Stoker]” MenWayFollowingInterviewsSelf DeterminationBentHarmoniousStoker Author:Winston Churchill
“He brought his great hand to rest on an early edition of Bram Stoker's novel and smiled, but said nothing. Then he moved quietly away into another section.” SaidHandsNovelMovedSectionsStoker Author:Elizabeth Kostova
“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.” WorldTryingLooksMadeWholeJobsAppreciateBlameSorryWhole WorldVampireI'm SorryGood JobParanoidStoker Author:Meg Cabot
“A friend once told me that the real message Bram Stoker sought to convey in 'Dracula' is that a human being needs to live hundreds and hundreds of years to get all his reading done; that Count Dracula, basically nothing more than a misunderstood bookworm, was draining blood from the necks of 10,000 hapless virgins not because he was the apotheosis of pure evil but because it was the only way he could live long enough to polish off his extensive reading list. But I have no way of knowing if this is true, as I have not yet found time to read 'Dracula.” IfsWayNeedsYearsHumansLongRealDoneEnoughEvilReadingFoundHuman BeingsKnowingBloodPureMessagesListsNecksVirginsMisunderstoodPolishDrainingBookwormsApotheosisPure EvilStokerCount DraculaExtensive Reading Author:Joe Queenan
“I have always credited the writer of the original material above the title: Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Bram Stoker's Dracula, or John Grisham's The Rainmaker. I felt that I didn't have the right to Francis Coppola's anything unless I had written the story and the screenplay.” StoriesFeltWrittenMaterialsDirectorsOriginalsTitlesScreenplaysScreenwritingMarioStoker Author:Francis Ford Coppola