...on to the creation of my hideous enemy. I looked on him nearly in the light of my own vampire—my own spirit let loose from the grave, and forced to destroy all that was dear to me. Anguish and despair had penetrated into the core of my heart. I was seized by remorse and a sense of...

...nearly elapsed since the night on which he first received life ; and was this his first crime ? Alas 1 I had turned loose into the world a depraved wretch,...grave, and forced to destroy all that was dear to me. [Justine, an innocent individual, is charged with the murder, and beheaded on circumstantial evidence....

...inconvenience of the weather; my imagination was busy in scenes of evil and despair. I considered the being 20 whom I had cast among mankind, and endowed with the...grave, and forced to destroy all that was dear to me. 25 Day dawned; and I directed my steps towards the town. The gates were open; and I hastened to my...

...Prospero, he finally acknowledges this thing of darkness his, even acknowledges this thing of darkness him: "my own vampire, my own spirit let loose from the...grave and forced to destroy all that was dear to me" (p. 77). But he cannot bring himself to actualize woman on any level: "Alas! to me the idea of the...

...Frankenstein's equation of love and death. He himself sees that the monster serves his own destructive urges: I considered the being whom I had cast among mankind...grave and forced to destroy all that was dear to me. (74) Accordingly, Frankenstein seems to know intuitively what the monster has done, even before he...

...the monster and its creator are twinned and doubled till one cannot tell itself apart from the other. 'My own vampire, my own spirit let loose from the...grave, and forced to destroy all that was dear to me', cries out Victor in a sudden shock of recognition. He has glimpsed the forbidden truth: the monster...

...earlier. As the creator of the monster, the ironically named Victor, declares: Clausewitz and Friction 3 5 I considered the being whom I had cast among mankind...the grave and forced to destroy all that was dear to me.14 It is moreover around that same period that madness itself is powerfully conceived as an automatism...

...and Dracula, "He 'ad white kid gloves on 'is 'ands" (chap. 11, 177). 26. Victor Frankenstein remarks: I considered the being whom I had cast among mankind,...grave, and forced to destroy all that was dear to me. (chap. 7, 79) 27. Dracula also recounts his "childhood," an intriguing journey into his memories of...

...world a depraved wretch whose delight was in carnage and misery; had he not murdered my brother? . . . I considered the being whom I had cast among mankind...grave and forced to destroy all that was dear to me. (74) This is what gets Frankenstein into lectures on vampirism. A few pages later Victor will continue...

...creation; the appearance of the work of my own hands at my bedside; its departure. Two years had now nearly elapsed since the night on which he first received...were open, and I hastened to my father's house. My 75 first thought was to discover what I knew of the murderer, and cause instant pursuit to be made....