Dracula Wolves Quotes

I could hear a lot of words often repeated, queer words, for there were many nationalities in the crowd; so I quietly got my polyglot dictionary from my bag and looked them out. I must say they were not cheering to me, for amongst them were ‘Ordog’ – Satan, ‘pokol’ – hell, ‘stregoica’ – witch, ‘vrolok’ and ‘vlkoslak’ – both of which mean the same thing, one being Slovak and the other Servian for something that is either werewolf or vampire.

– Bram Stoker

Dracula, Chapter 1. As he boards the coach bound for Count Dracula’s castle, a crowd of peasants gathers and they mutter a lot of unsettling words about witches and devils and vampires at Jonathan Harker. This increases the uneasiness he already feels and is foreshadowing of evil things to come.

I saw around us a ring of wolves, with white teeth and lolling red tongues, with long, sinewy limbs and shaggy hair. They were a hundred times more terrible in the grim silence which held them than ever when they howled. For myself, I felt a sort of paralysis of fear. It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.

– Bram Stoker

Dracula, Chapter 1. Jonathan Harker, during his carriage ride to Castle Dracula. He becomes aware that the woods along the road have taken on a sinister character and he is spooked by the wild howling of demonic-type wolves which live there.

Somewhere high overhead, probably on the tower, I heard the voice of the Count calling in his harsh, metallic whisper. His call seemed to be answered from far and wide by the howling of wolves. Before many minutes had passed a pack of them poured, like a pent-up dam when liberated, through the wide entrance into the courtyard.

– Bram Stoker

Dracula, Chapter 4. Jonathan describes how Dracula summons the wolves by letting out a noice from atop the tower. The howling pack pour into the courtyard, where they devour a woman.

As the door began to open, the howling of the wolves without grew louder and angrier. Their red jaws, with champing teeth, and their blunt-clawed feet as they leaped, came in through the opening door. I knew than that to struggle at the moment against the Count was useless. With such allies as these at his command, I could do nothing.

– Bram Stoker

Dracula, Chapter 4. Jonathan Harker tells Count Dracula that he wants to leave his castle. But when Dracula draws back the main door of the castle, Jonathan is horrified to find that there is a large number or wolves howling outside. Seeing he cannot really leave, he returned to his bedroom.
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