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Quotation from Dracula by Bram Stoker
“My homicidal maniac is of a peculiar kind. I shall have to invent a new classification for him, and call him a zoöphagous (life-eating) maniac”
Dracula, Ch. 6 (Dr Seward's diary) (1897 first edition)
Seward, in the manner of a Victorian alienist, tries to classify Renfield's habit of eating living creatures.
Citation: "My homicidal maniac is of a peculiar kind. I shall have to invent a new classification for him, and call him a zoöphagous (life-eating) maniac" — Bram Stoker, Dracula, Ch. 6 (Dr Seward's diary) (1897 first edition). (id dracula-q4)
Portrait: Bram Stoker 1906, unidentified photographer, Public domain.
