Dracula Bats Quotes

Then I caught the patient’s eye and followed it, but could trace nothing as it looked into the moonlight sky, except a big bat, which was flapping its silent and ghostly way to the west. Bats usually wheel about, but this one seemed to go straight on, as if it knew where it was bound for or had some intention of its own.

– Bram Stoker

Dracula, Chapter 9. Renfield, the patient in the lunatic asylum, becomes agitated and attempts to escape but is caught by the orderlies and Dr. Seward. Just then Renfield looks upwards and Dr. Seward notices a large bat flying above. Renfield suddenly becomes calm and agrees to go back to the asylum. Seward is puzzled, he doesn’t realize that the bat is Dracula who can transform into an animal.

Can you tell me why in the Pampas, ay and elsewhere, there are bats that come out at night and open the veins of cattle and horses and suck dry their veins, how in some islands of the Western seas there are bats which hang on the trees all day, and those who have seen describe as like giant nuts or pods, and that when the sailors sleep on the deck, because that it is hot, flit down on them and then, and then in the morning are found dead men, white as even Miss Lucy was?

– Bram Stoker

Dracula, Chapter 14. Van Helsing challenges Dr. John Seward’s rigid scientific thinking. He puts the case for believing in vampire bats that suck the blood of other creatures and prey on human beings like Lucy.

The Count, even if he takes the form of a bat, cannot cross the running water of his own volition, and so he cannot leave the ship. As he dare not change to man’s form without suspicion, which he evidently wishes to avoid, he must remain in the box.

– Bram Stoker

Dracula, Chapter 25. If the vampire hunters board Dracula’s ship by daylight, the Count will be trapped in his box, Jonathan Harker writes. So the group’s opportunity will be to get on the boat between sunrise and sunset, Van Helsing suggests.
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