Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh. I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.

Nosferatu was produced while Florence Stoker Bram Stoker's widow and literary executrix was still alive. Stoker then spent several years researching European folklore and mythological stories of vampires. "The Censorship of Fiction" The Nineteenth Century and After Vol.

During his lifetime he was better known as personal assistant of actor Henry Irving and business manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London which Irving owned. Abraham "Bram" Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish novelist and short story writer best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula.