Tag: gothic

9 posts since December 2011 RSS

  • November 6th, 2012 10:09am

    I no longer remember the faces of the dead women. There is only Kelly’s face, and that becomes more like Lucy with each passing night. I have bought Kelly clothes similar to those Lucy wore. The nightgown she wears before we couple is very like the shroud in which Lucy was buried. Kelly styles her hair like Lucy’s now. Soon, I hesitate to hope, Kelly will be Lucy.

    — Dr. Jack Seward – (Kim Newman) Anno Dracula (1992)

  • February 1st, 2012 2:09pm

    I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.

    — Edgar Allan Poe.

  • January 27th, 2012 2:03pm

    Blood is too precious a thing in these days of dishonourable peace; and the glories of the great races are as a tale that is told.

    — Dracula; Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

  • January 24th, 2012 2:21pm

    He is experimenting and doing it well; and if it had not been that we have crossed his path he would be yet – he may yet be if we fail – the father or furtherer of a new order of beings, whose road must lead through Death, not Life.

    — Dr. Abraham Van Helsing; Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

  • January 22nd, 2012 8:31pm

    Beauty of whatever kind in its supreme development invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. Melancholy is thus the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.

    — Edgar Allan Poe (via javiercarretequotes)

  • December 29th, 2011 3:18am

    Long – long I read – and devoutly, devotedly I gazed. Rapidly and gloriously the hours flew by, and the deep midnight came.

    — Edgar Allan Poe – The Oval Portrait.

  • December 27th, 2011 11:32pm


    constellationstessellations:

    Through a circle that ever returneth in
    To the self-same spot,
    And much of Madness and more of Sin
    And Horror the Soul of the Plot.
    – Edgar Allan Poe, excerpt from “Ligeia”