Happy October! 🎃 On my latest “Looking Back on Genre History” segment on the #StarShipSofa podcast (Episode 766), I celebrate the #Dracula "group read" experience. 🦇 #DailyDracula #ReDracula #BramStoker #Gothic #Books #Bookstodon #SFF

Here is the link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/starshipsofa-766-jay-caselberg/id166360307?i=1000729457545

I'm getting #DailyDracula intermittently until November.

Today (12 May), Jonathan saw some weirdness and began to question the nature of his host.

Jonathan is worried, though he doesn't fully grasp the situation.

#Dracula #Vampire #Vampires #Novel #Email #EpistolaryNovel

Here's the building that Bram Stoker may have been thinking of when he mentioned the property called "Carfax" that Count Dracula wanted to buy in Purfleet, outside London. Look at it. Doesn't it just _ooze_ mystery, gothic romance and vampirism? #dailydracula
Source: https://ianfarrington.wordpress.com/2021/11/08/draculas-purfleet/
Dracula’s Purfleet

Purfleet is a small town in Essex on the north bank of the River Thames. It’s only mentioned by name six times in Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula, yet plays a vital role in the narrati…

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Catching up on #dailydracula, this quote from the letter that Jonathan Harker's boss entrusted to Harker to give to Dracula: "He is a young man, full of energy and talent in his own way [...]" Talk about damning praise.

Also, the Count is a confirmed unibrow: "His eyebrows were very massive, almost meeting over the nose."

hot thiggity thighs

I was surprised to find in my second reading of Dracula Daily that Jonathan has canonically taken pictures of Dracula's home in England with a Kodak camera! I didn't realize this since the name was n…

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Sure, Dracula can be all like "my cloak is gonna look like wings and it'll be super cool as I scuttle down this wall like a gecko," but I think gravity is gonna have some other plans, my dude.

I was on the Daily Dracula train with @feygele

#comic #webcomic #webcomics #dracula #draculadaily #dailydracula

Normalize sending your bestie letters like this #DailyDracula
In general I just really love how all the main characters are just huge nerds. #DailyDracula
There’s probably no other novel that glamorizes stenography as much as Dracula. #DailyDracula
Reading today’s #DailyDracula section and being reminded that the description of Dracula’s physiognomy is not unlike that of Sherlock Holmes: aquiline, thin nose, lofty forehead, "hair growing scantily round the temples". Then some differences, of course. Notably, the moustache.