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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 1h

🧛 "I was ill, I have had a shock; but you have cured me already." - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 7h

🧛 The opportunities of acquiring an abnormal thirst had been here limited; a noble use of them had, however, been made, and again I was compelled to deal with the result in an ex post facto manner. - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 13h

🧛 "I have read your husband's so wonderful diary. You may sleep without doubt. Strange and terrible as it is, it is true! I will pledge my life on it. It may be worse for others; but for him and you there is no dread. - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 19h

🧛 She stopped and a shudder ran through her, increasing in intensity for a few seconds, till, at the end, she shook as though in a palsy. She said no more, even in answer to the Professor's imperative questioning. - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

🧛 "And you, friend Quincey, have you any to tell?" - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

🧛 "A shock, and after brain fever so soon! That was not good. What kind of a shock was it?" - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

🧛 "Now let us see how far the general powers arrayed against us are restrict, and how the individual cannot. In fine, let us consider the limitations of the vampire in general, and of this one in particular. - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

🧛 "I would; if there were no friend who loved me, who would save me such a pain, and so desperate an effort!" She looked at him meaningly as she spoke. - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

🧛 "Dr. Van Helsing, you may do what you will. I feel that in saying this I am doing what my dear one would have approved. I shall not trouble you with questions till the time comes." - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

🧛 When the man had fairly gone, we three crossed the street and knocked at the door. It was immediately opened by Quincey Morris, beside whom stood Lord Godalming lighting a cigar. - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

🧛 I kept away from my friend for a few days, so that I might notice if there were any change. Things remain as they were except that he has parted with some of his pets and got a new one. He has managed to get a sparrow, and has already partially tamed it. - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

🧛 When I could see again the driver was climbing into the calèche, and the wolves had disappeared. This was all so strange and uncanny that a dreadful fear came upon me, and I was afraid to speak or move. - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

🧛 Am I to take it that I have anything in common with him, so that we are, as it were, to stand together; or has he to gain from me some good so stupendous that my well-being is needful to him? I must find out later on. To-night he will not speak. - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🧛 His face fell, and I could see a warning of danger in it, for there was a sudden fierce, sidelong look which meant killing. The man is an undeveloped homicidal maniac. I shall test him with his present craving and see how it will work out; then I shall know more. - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🧛 "I did not say she was alive, my child; I did not think it. I go no further than to say that she might be Un-Dead." - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🧛 Outside the Harkers' door we paused. - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🧛 It was now late in the afternoon, and sunset was not far off. - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🧛 "I do not know. Sleep has no place it can call its own." For several minutes there was silence. Mina sat rigid, and the Professor stood staring at her fixedly; the rest of us hardly dared to breathe. - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🧛 He made me sit next to him on his right, and asked me to act as secretary; Jonathan sat next to me. Opposite us were Lord Godalming, Dr. Seward, and Mr. Morris--Lord Godalming being next the Professor, and Dr. Seward in the centre. - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🧛 From thence I went on to Carter Paterson's central office, where I met with the utmost courtesy. They looked up the transaction in their day-book and letter-book, and at once telephoned to their King's Cross office for more details. - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🧛 The whole place was becoming alive with rats. - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

🧛 Whilst he was speaking, Lucy had been examining the flowers and smelling them. - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

🧛 We left in pretty good time, and came after nightfall to Klausenburgh. Here I stopped for the night at the Hotel Royale. - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

🧛 If you will let me have his lordship's address I will consult the House on the subject, and will, in any case, communicate with his lordship by to-night's post. It will be a pleasure if we can so far deviate from our rules as to give the required information to his lordship." - Dracula by Bram

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

🧛 "She is one of God's women, fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth. So true, so sweet, so noble, so little an egoist--and that, let me tell you, is much in this age, so sceptical and selfish. -

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

🧛 "You do not know me," I said. "When you have read those papers--my own diary and my husband's also, which I have typed--you will know me better. - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

🧛 It is only about 24 hours' sail from the Dardanelles to here, at the rate the Czarina Catherine has come from London. She should therefore arrive some time in the morning; but as she cannot possibly get in before then, we are all about to retire early. - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

🧛 "God bless me!" he said. "If there ain't old Bersicker come back by 'isself!" - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

🧛 The Professor was delighted. "Ah, that wonderful Madam Mina," he said, "pearl among women! She arrive, but I cannot stay. She must go to your house, friend John. You must meet her at the station. Telegraph her en route, so that she may be prepared." - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🧛 "And now, friend John, I think we may to bed. We want sleep, both you and I, and rest to recuperate. To-morrow we shall have much to do, but for the to-night there is no need of us. Alas!" - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🧛 And besides there is nothing in all the world that can give me more pain than I have already endured--than I suffer now! Whatever may happen, it must be of new hope or of new courage to me!" - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🧛 "Well, guv'nor, you've treated me wery 'an'some"--I had given him half a sovereign--"an' I'll tell yer all I know. I heard a man by the name of Bloxam say four nights ago in the 'Are an' 'Ounds, in Pincher's Alley, as 'ow he an' his mate 'ad 'ad a rare dusty job in a old 'ouse at Purfect. -

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🧛 'Tis meet that I put it down," etc. - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

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Out of Context Dracula @outofcontexdracula.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🧛 "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 · 01/10/2026

🧛 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 · 01/10/2026

🧛 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 · 01/10/2026

🧛 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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