Setting: Liminality Homoeroticism Supernatural / The other / Desire
Dracula Themes Quote Bank Uncanny
"The castle is on the very ‘More like the hand of a ‘Your girls that you all ‘Noticing his quiet smile ‘There was a deliberate
edge of a terrific dead than a living man.’ love are mine already; with the sharp canine voluptuousness which
precipice. A stone falling and through them you all teeth lying over the red was both thrilling and
from the window would and others shall yet be under-lip, I understood… I repulsive.’
fall a thousand feet mine.’ should be careful what I
without touching wrote
anything! As far as the
eye can reach is a sea of
green treetops, with
occasionally a deep rift
where there is a chasm.
Here and there are silver
threads where the rivers
wind in deep gorges
through the forests."
‘Right over the town is ‘I find that the district he ‘Even we four who gave :"He can, within his “I lay quiet, looking out
the ruin of Whitby Abbey, named is in the extreme our strength to Lucy it range, direct the under my eyelashes in an
which was sacked by the east of the country, just also is all to him.’ – only elements: the storm, the agony of delightful
Danes, and which is the on the borders of three though women may men fog, the thunder; he can anticipation”
scene of part of states, Transylvania, touch.’ command all the meaner
‘Marmion.’ Moldavia and Bukovina.’ things: the rat, and the
owl, and the bat—the
moth, and the fox, and
the wolf."
‘As ide as a painted ship “Jack, is she really dead?’’ ‘How dare you touch him, ‘His face was a strong- a 'Languorous ecstasy'
upon a painted ocean.’ any of you? How dare you very strong – aquiline,
cast eyes on him when I with high bridge of the
had forbidden it?’’ thin nose and peculiarly
arched nostrils,’
‘I had stepped over the ‘If so then what about the ‘Rather cruel looking, with 'I felt in my heart a
threshold.’ others? Ho, Ho! Then this peculiarly sharp white wicked, burning desire
so sweet maid is a teeth’ that they would kiss me
polyandrist and me with with those red lips'
my poor wife dead to me,
but alive by Church’s law,
though no wits all gone –
even I who am faithful
, husband to this.’’
‘He was either dead or ‘This man belongs to me.’ ‘The general effect is one
asleep.’ of extraordinary pallor.’
‘Listen to them – the
children of the night.
What music they make.’
‘There was no reflection
of him in the mirror!’
‘I have not seen the count
eat or drink.’
Dracula Themes Quote Bank Uncanny
"The castle is on the very ‘More like the hand of a ‘Your girls that you all ‘Noticing his quiet smile ‘There was a deliberate
edge of a terrific dead than a living man.’ love are mine already; with the sharp canine voluptuousness which
precipice. A stone falling and through them you all teeth lying over the red was both thrilling and
from the window would and others shall yet be under-lip, I understood… I repulsive.’
fall a thousand feet mine.’ should be careful what I
without touching wrote
anything! As far as the
eye can reach is a sea of
green treetops, with
occasionally a deep rift
where there is a chasm.
Here and there are silver
threads where the rivers
wind in deep gorges
through the forests."
‘Right over the town is ‘I find that the district he ‘Even we four who gave :"He can, within his “I lay quiet, looking out
the ruin of Whitby Abbey, named is in the extreme our strength to Lucy it range, direct the under my eyelashes in an
which was sacked by the east of the country, just also is all to him.’ – only elements: the storm, the agony of delightful
Danes, and which is the on the borders of three though women may men fog, the thunder; he can anticipation”
scene of part of states, Transylvania, touch.’ command all the meaner
‘Marmion.’ Moldavia and Bukovina.’ things: the rat, and the
owl, and the bat—the
moth, and the fox, and
the wolf."
‘As ide as a painted ship “Jack, is she really dead?’’ ‘How dare you touch him, ‘His face was a strong- a 'Languorous ecstasy'
upon a painted ocean.’ any of you? How dare you very strong – aquiline,
cast eyes on him when I with high bridge of the
had forbidden it?’’ thin nose and peculiarly
arched nostrils,’
‘I had stepped over the ‘If so then what about the ‘Rather cruel looking, with 'I felt in my heart a
threshold.’ others? Ho, Ho! Then this peculiarly sharp white wicked, burning desire
so sweet maid is a teeth’ that they would kiss me
polyandrist and me with with those red lips'
my poor wife dead to me,
but alive by Church’s law,
though no wits all gone –
even I who am faithful
, husband to this.’’
‘He was either dead or ‘This man belongs to me.’ ‘The general effect is one
asleep.’ of extraordinary pallor.’
‘Listen to them – the
children of the night.
What music they make.’
‘There was no reflection
of him in the mirror!’
‘I have not seen the count
eat or drink.’