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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 5h

🧛 "You needn't tie me; I shall go quietly!" Without trouble we came back to the house. I feel there is something ominous in his calm, and shall not forget this night.... - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 11h

🧛 From his putting his finger to his lips, I gathered that he expected her to wake before long and was afraid of forestalling nature. - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 17h

🧛 It was a welcome sight; for here was a great bedroom well lighted and warmed with another log fire,--also added to but lately, for the top logs were fresh--which sent a hollow roar up the wide chimney. - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 23h

🧛 Whilst they were talking Mr. Morris was looking steadily at the window, and he now got up quietly, and went out of the room. - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🧛 No, you don't; you couldn't with eyebrows like yours." - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🧛 She was leaping for them, when Van Helsing sprang forward and held between them his little golden crucifix. She recoiled from it, and, with a suddenly distorted face, full of rage, dashed past him as if to enter the tomb. - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🧛 I think the feeling was common to us all, for I noticed that the others kept looking over their shoulders at every sound and every new shadow, just as I felt myself doing. - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🧛 "Let me advise you, my dear young friend--nay, let me warn you with all seriousness, that should you leave these rooms you will not by any chance go to sleep in any other part of the castle. It is old, and has many memories, and there are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely. Be warned! -

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🧛 Fifty years ago a series of great fires took place, which made terrible havoc on five separate occasions. At the very beginning of the seventeenth century it underwent a siege of three weeks and lost 13,000 people, the casualties of war proper being assisted by famine and disease. - Dracula by

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🧛 As I write there is in the passage below a sound of many tramping feet and the crash of weights being set down heavily, doubtless the boxes, with their freight of earth. There is a sound of hammering; it is the box being nailed down. - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🧛 "But I do mind," he answered. "The affairs of their clients are absolutely safe in the hands of Mitchell, Sons, & Candy." This was manifestly a prig of the first water, and there was no use arguing with him. - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🧛 "Ah, then you have good memory for facts, for details? It is not always so with young ladies." - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🧛 "'Ow yes, they would,' says I, a-imitatin' of him. 'They always likes a bone or two to clean their teeth on about tea-time, which you 'as a bagful.' - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🧛 "Count me in, Professor," said Mr. Quincey Morris, laconically as usual. - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🧛 "5 September.--Patient greatly improved. Good appetite; sleeps naturally; good spirits; colour coming back." - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🧛 Somewhere high overhead, probably on the tower, I heard the voice of the Count calling in his harsh, metallic whisper. His call seemed to be answered from far and wide by the howling of wolves. - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🧛 Now go." - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🧛 Thus the Count had knowledge of the persons who could arrange this service. When the box was on land, before sunrise or after sunset, he came out from his box, met Skinsky and instructed him what to do as to arranging the carriage of the box up some river. - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🧛 Harker groaned and said, "And this is all arrayed against my darling! But how is he experimenting? The knowledge may help us to defeat him!" - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🧛 Jonathan kept staring at him, till I was afraid he would notice. I feared he might take it ill, he looked so fierce and nasty. I asked Jonathan why he was disturbed, and he answered, evidently thinking that I knew as much about it as he did: "Do you see who it is?" - Dracula by Bram Stoker

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

🧛 At least, so he says, but I don't give much for it myself, for if he did 'e never said a word about it to his missis when 'e got 'ome, and it was only after the escape of the wolf was made known, and we had been up all night-a-huntin' of the Park for Bersicker, that he remembered seein'

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

🧛 My poor darling's brain had told her the significance of the fact as quickly as her nerves received the pain of it; and the two so overwhelmed her that her overwrought nature had its voice in that dreadful scream. - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

🧛 When Dr. Van Helsing had done speaking, I asked him if he were certain that the Count had remained on board the ship. He replied: "We have the best proof of that: your own evidence, when in the hypnotic trance this morning." - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

🧛 Later.--I went after my round to Van Helsing and told him my suspicion. He grew very grave; and, after thinking the matter over for a while asked me to take him to Renfield. I did so. - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🧛 I think I must have continued my wonder in my dreams, for, sleeping and waking, my thoughts always came back to the little punctures in her throat and the ragged, exhausted appearance of their edges--tiny though they were. - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🧛 "Then you are on a ship?" We all looked at each other, trying to glean something each from the other. We were afraid to think. - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🧛 This staggered me. A man does not like to prove such a truth; Byron excepted from the category, jealousy. - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🧛 "My friend, it was because I wished to be gentle in the breaking to you, for I know you have loved that so sweet lady. But even yet I do not expect you to believe. - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🧛 Them feet-folks from York and Leeds that be always eatin' cured herrin's an' drinkin' tea an' lookin' out to buy cheap jet would creed aught. I wonder masel' who'd be bothered tellin' lies to them--even the newspapers, which is full of fool-talk." - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🧛 "We must reduce the pressure and get back to normal conditions, as far as can be; the rapidity of the suffusion shows the terrible nature of his injury. The whole motor area seems affected. The suffusion of the brain will increase quickly, so we must trephine at once or it may be too late." -

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🧛 This was a poser to me. - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🧛 "Shall I have a nurse?" I asked. - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🧛 "Why not?" I asked, for some grave, terrible feeling was coming over me. Again he paused, and I could see that he was trying to invent an excuse. - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🧛 Every trace of all that had been was blotted out. The castle stood as before, reared high above a waste of desolation. - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🧛 Therefore may I ask that you promise me in the dark, so that afterwards, though you may be angry with me for a time--I must not disguise from myself the possibility that such may be--you shall not blame yourselves for anything." - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🧛 The whole bed would have been drenched to a scarlet with the blood which the girl must have lost to leave such a pallor as she had before the transfusion. - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🧛 "Now, sir, you can go on and arsk me what you want. You'll excoose me refoosin' to talk of perfeshunal subjects afore meals. I gives the wolves and the jackals and the hyenas in all our section their tea afore I begins to arsk them questions." - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🧛 It had indeed been an awful strain on him; and had he not been forced to his task by more than human considerations he could never have gone through with it. For a few minutes we were so taken up with him that we did not look towards the coffin. - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🧛 "Again I swear!" came the Professor's resonant voice. Mrs. - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🧛 In the hours that had passed, the fits of sleep, or the comatose condition that passed for it, had grown more frequent, so that the pauses when conversation was possible were shortened. - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🧛 There is no mistake of that. Lucy has not walked much in her sleep the last week, but there is an odd concentration about her which I do not understand; even in her sleep she seems to be watching me. She tries the door, and finding it locked, goes about the room searching for the key. -

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🧛 We went thoroughly into the business of the purchase of the estate at Purfleet. When I had told him the facts and got his signature to the necessary papers, and had written a letter with them ready to post to Mr. Hawkins, he began to ask me how I had come across so suitable a place. - Dracula

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🧛 "Look here, sir," I said, "does what you have to do concern the Count?" - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🧛 "Oh, no, oh no! I want no souls. Life is all I want." Here he brightened up; "I am pretty indifferent about it at present. Life is all right; I have all I want. You must get a new patient, doctor, if you wish to study zoöphagy!" - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

🧛 "And now," he said, "may I ask you for some more help? I have a great task to do, and at the beginning it is to know. You can help me here. Can you tell me what went before your going to Transylvania? Later on I may ask more help, and of a different kind; but at first this will do." - Dracula

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

🧛 "Jonathan, I want you to promise me something on your word of honour. A promise made to me, but made holily in God's hearing, and not to be broken though I should go down on my knees and implore you with bitter tears. Quick, you must make it to me at once." - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

🧛 "Oh, thank God for good brave men!" With a sigh she sank back again to sleep. I write this now as I am not sleepy, though I must try again. - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

🧛 Having been in the house, I could well believe him; but if he knew what I know, he would, I think, have raised his terms. - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

🧛 By this time my little joke was over, and I was almost ashamed; so I took the typewritten copy from my workbasket and handed it to him. - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

🧛 As I raised the blind, and the morning sunlight flooded the room, I heard the Professor's low hiss of inspiration, and knowing its rarity, a deadly fear shot through my heart. - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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