Bram Stoker Quotes

People have always had a fascination with the supernatural going back to the beginning of time and with vampires in particular. This phenomenon is not new.

I love the idea that magic and witchcraft and battles between supernatural creatures could be raging all around us but just out of our sight.

When I go home, the last thing I want to do is read about the popular lore of vampires.

I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and usually that's in the world of the supernatural or the world of the fantastic, so that's why those kinds of stories about demons and the supernatural appeal to me or maybe I'm really interested in that subject.

Angels, demons, spirits, wizards, gods and witches have peppered folk religions since mankind first started telling stories.

One of my favorite things about supernatural fiction is its vast array of creatures.

I love monsters, I love creatures, I love beings, I love aliens. That's more supernatural and more the stuff of fairy tales. Fairy tales are as ancient as we are. I love those stories. I think they're really interesting because they always have more than simply the fright aspect. There's something deeply psychological.

The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.

I like vampires.

I'd go into the woods to look for the witches, the mythical beings.

Magic is at the core of myths.

When you consider the concept of vampirism, it is inherently part of a Western culture.

I realised that today we are very much interested in reading about subjects that would have also interested people in the 1500s: ghosts, demons and things that go bump in the night.

Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy.

I swear to God I was freaked out about the Aswang when I was a kid in the Philippines.

Basically, Urban Fantasy means D&D in New York. Ordinary people have no idea that they share the world with fantastic, supernatural creatures. It can't just be vampires or werewolves; it has to be a whole continuum of fantastic beings, with their own society within society.

Vampires aren't made - they're just born that way, and no one knows why. They're sort of a race unto themselves.

Europe is so much the home of Horror, with its myths of vampires, werewolves, witchcraft and the undead, yet it's like those myths were exported to Hollywood, leaving Europe the room to develop a new tradition as a way of processing its traumas, particularly the two world wars.

I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.

The words 'fairy tales' must accordingly be taken to include tales in which occurs something 'fairy,' something extraordinary - fairies, giants, dwarfs, speaking animals.

Vampires were an excellent springboard. I still love them; they fascinate me.

I don't know what to think about magic and fairy tales.

Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this is so may be interesting, but in most cases the beliefs themselves are devoid of interesting content, at least to me.

I love the stories of changelings and the thought that the Fey were these ancient, capricious creatures who were tricky and dangerous. I've always preferred the Brothers Grimm faery tales to the Disney fairy tales.

Are vampires kinky? I didn't know.