i really love dracula

and other classic horror monsters but mostly good ol drac. this is my horror loving and aesthetic loving blog. call me Percy! (he/they)

[omenfan666]

[dracula-is-homosexual]

he was highkey the perfect jonathan harker too bad nobody in the world is willing to have the GUTS to make a dracula movie actually about the primary initial narrator of act 1 and first in-book victim of dracula be an actual character in a dracula adaptation instead of a plot device in what always boils down to some kinda cuck fantasy LMAO

[dracula-is-homosexual]

Me: Yes, waiting 400 years for the wife who was killed in front of you, partly by your own hands, to reincarnate and love you back is a truly beautifully romantic thing. That wasn't a part of the book by the way. I don't know what the hell you're talking about. That literally never happened in the book at all. Anyway. I just have. Just one question. Just one: uh, so. The gargoyles? What's that about? Who were those boys? Luc Besson, director of hit 1997 film The Fifth Element: I directed ze Fifth Element Me: That's great , Luc Besson.

[greycat13]

and the angels, they forgot her

[greycat13]

and who by fire?

[cry-ptidd]

Lucy Westenra

[cinephil-ia]

House (1977), dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi

[nonalimmen]

© Nona Limmen {Instagram / Website}

[enchantedbook]

Strega by Pia Valentinis

[trench-ghost]

[starlitartworks]

Wake up babe, the time loop reset. It's time to go to Transylvania.

[rikiteekeetavee]

Carmilla, Chapter XVI. Conclusion

Letters to Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir / Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë / Poem Without a Hero & Selected Poems, Anna Akhmatova / Brite Z, Poppy, "My Wild Heart Bleeds" from introduction to Carmilla (Beehive Books) / Vesti la giubba, Ruggiero Leoncavallo / Crimson Peak, Guillermo del Toro / You’ll Find a Girl, Fortesa Latifi / The Coffin of Andy and Leyley

[thegoatsongs]

It's often said that Carmilla influenced Dracula, but usually it's left at that.

Hopefully I'll expand on this soon, but one of the Carmilla influences on Dracula can be found in Lucy Westenra:

Lucy and Carmilla are both victims of a vampire who bit them, attacked them in their beds, and turned them.

Both of them died ill, shy of turning 20.

Both Carmilla and Lucy slip through cracks and locked spaces that are otherwise impossible to get through.

Both are seen at night in white.

Both of them move at night in a trance-like state when spotted by outsiders (among trees with Carmilla, among graves with Lucy). Lucy's sleepwalking could have been influenced by Carmilla's nightly trances, from when she prowls to feed.

Both of them will choose a random victim at night, feed on them, and then leave them to their fate, to hunt another day (Carmilla with the villagers, Lucy with the children). The difference is that Carmilla's feedings prove fatal after a few days.

Carmilla and Lucy both have a target with whom they have formed a bond. They see this person not just as a source of sustenance, but as someone they want to accompany them in undeath (Carmilla with Laura, Lucy with Arthur).

Lucy has similarities with Laura as well, in that both of them are also the same age, from an old, known family, in peril of turning into a vampire, and are kept in ignorance by parental/male figures. The narratives have differing attitudes towards the last point.

[vampires-official]

official vampire post

[dracula-is-homosexual]

I'm playing a Fable-based dnd campaign with some friends and i'm playing as Van Helsing au where everyone died at the end of the book except for him and Mina and it was all his fault . him and dracula are exes btw . and then he got isekai'd into a magical world where he learned to be a wizard . here's his kin list . i can't wait to start it

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[nocturnalbatt]

[descendinight]

"Dream of me. Only me." from Nosferatu 2024