They were made by Miss Lucy! - Bram Stoker

I have been so long master
that I would be master still, or at least that none other
should be master of me.

I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.

My homicidal maniac is of a peculiar kind. I shall have to invent a new classification for him, and call him a zoophagous (life-eating) maniac; what he desires is to absorb as many lives as he can, and he has laid himself out to achieve it in a cumulative way. ..