Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.

Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road, a long, agonized wailing, as if from fear. The sound was taken up by another dog, and then another and another, till, borne on the wind which now sighed softly through the Pass, a wild howling began, which seemed to come from all over the country, as far as the imagination could grasp it through the gloom of the night.

It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.

There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.

Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me! How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.

I'm a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.

Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.