Bram Stoker — Irish Writer born on November 08, 1847, died on April 20, 1912

Abraham "Bram" Stoker was an Anglo-Irish author, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel, Dracula. During his lifetime, he was better known as the personal assistant of actor Henry Irving and business manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London, which Irving owned... (wikipedia)

There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.
No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.
And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again.
Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-fashioned, for of course I wanted to see all I could of the ways of the country.