God bless dracula daily cuz now everyone understands why I’m so obsessed with this book . No movie can do it justice. It’s just something you have to read to experience just how wild but entertaining it is.
Every day i realize i was not born to work I was born to sit by the window sill with an open book while i look out on the countryside and also I’m a vampire
they really captured the letter format so well, because now every day that we don’t get an update, I’m like ‘…oh no, something terrible might have happened to my dear friend jonathan harker!!’ when like of course something terrible has happened, he’s in the novel dracula
how sweet and touching is his bond with the doggies of the night!
how thoughtfully, how carefully he cooks chicken for our friend Jonathan Harker! with his own hands, he tends the fire, he makes up the bed linens… always quietly and discreetly so as not to offend our friend Jonathan’s delicate English sensibilities!
consider: his genuine interest and delight in the English train tables. so endearing!
how mournful are his soulful eyes and drooping white moustache, like a faithful hound
and really, vampirism is a low impact, even (dare I say) sustainable form of aristocracy. think of the brutish English landlord, who bleeds thousands of tenant peasants dry every year! Herr Graf Dracula sensitively restrains himself to perhaps less than one measly peasant per year.
and despite his thoughtful and sensitive nature, the people despise him! they abhor his name, poor thing!
was he able to shave? is dracula still pretending to be his entire staff? has dracula tried to dracula him? i am left to ponder until our next communication…
I just want everyone new to Dracula and reading Dracula Daily to note that you are getting to read this novel in a weird and wonderful way that its author absolutely did not intend. This is not a straight serialization of the text. Dates skip around in Draculaas it is written, moving the reader backwards and forwards in time to help shape the specific narrative Bram Stoker wanted to tell. We all will–in fact–be skipping ahead some chapters in a few days to meet another narrator only to skip immediately back to catch up with our collective friend Jonathan Harker.
And I think this is rad! I think it’s amazing to have a bunch of readers who are reading this book–not as Bram Stoker wrote it–but in a way that conforms to the steady march of events within it. This is a unique opportunity in that you guys don’t get to shape your reactions in relation to things you know will happen later. You can’t have your dread or anticipation undercut by future events.
Like all the characters you’re going to meet, you just have to wait for Dracula to act upon you.
