#strigoi lover

Love makes me tremble, love sets me burning; I press your door with my hand and open it, And rush into your alcove — to my shrine; Beside this bed, henceforth, I set my vigil.

Nothing will unsettle me, Not even the shadows of your thin, trembling hands. I shall remain — I give my sacred word; Though you implore me, I shall not leave your alcove.

Bolesław Leśmian (1877-1937)

(translated from Polish)

Inside 'Nosferatu': A Conversation with Robert Eggers and Willem Dafoe

“Your husband is lost to you. Dream of me. Only me. Only me.”

BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA (1992) dir. Francis Ford Coppola

NOSFERATU: A SYMPHONY OF HORROR (2023) dir. David Lee Fisher

“It turned to torture, it would kill me.”

NOSFERATU: A SYMPHONY OF HORROR (1922) dir. F.W. Murnau

“I’ll inform you Catherine Linton is as different now from your old friend Catherine Earnshaw […] Her appearance is changed greatly, her character much more so; […] [you] will only sustain [your] affection hereafter by the remembrance of what she once was […] you have no scruples in completely ruining all hopes of her perfect restoration, by thrusting yourself into her remembrance now, when she has nearly forgotten you, and involving her in a new tumult of discord and distress.”

“You suppose she has nearly forgotten me?”[Heathcliff] said. “Oh, Nelly! You know she has not! You know as well as I do, that for every thought she spends on Linton she spends a thousand on me!”