It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact. If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.

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.