Quote from The King on The Beatles from John Lennon: The Life

The good luck telegram that so thrilled the Beatles before their second Ed Sullivan Show had, in fact, been sent as a PR gesture by Presley's wily manager, Colonel Tom Parker. Initially, Presley had been baffled by their music and repulsed by their hair and clothes, complaining that they looked like 'a bunch of faggots'.

Not cool, Elv.

Norman, Philip. 2008. John Lennon: The Life.

Quote on zombies from The Satanic Verses

Some days he finds himself among walking corpses, great crowds of the dead, all of them refusing to admit they’re done for, corpses mutinously continuing to behave like living people, shopping, catching buses, flirting, going home to make love, smoking cigarettes. But you’re dead, he shouts at them. Zombies, get into your graves. They ignore him, or laugh, or look embarrassed, or menace him with their fists. He falls silent, and hurries on.

Rushdie, Salman. 1988. The Satanic Verses.

All joined up.

Quote on garlic from Dracula

... Oh yes! they, like the lotus flower, make your trouble forgotten. It smell so like the waters of Lethe, and of that fountain of youth that the Conquistadores sought for in the Floridas, and find him all too late.

Stoker, Bram. 1897. Dracula.

Van Helsing on garlic. And he's dead right.