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*waves* welcome (back)!
quick guide: you can browse by characters, days, and post types. but if this is your first time reading, be careful! don’t go back far enough that you see posts from last year.
spoiler policy: will hold back posts until referenced events happen or characters appear for the first time, although vague hints and marked spoilers are okay.
suggestions or feedback? send a message, ask a question, mention or tag. please be nice!
Alright babe, you’ve succeeded. I spent $40 at a coastal bookshop on a special edition of Dracula because my mutual sleep reblogging your daily posts and now I want to read the book.
I support your choices, they are most valid.
(I'm not really here, shhh, carry on everyone.)
How do I convince my family that Dracula isn't scary and to join me in this year's production? One of them never got past Jonathan's no go very bad business trip. :(
Frankly, Dracula is scary at times (though of course your family's mileage may vary). If you'd really like them to join you, perhaps it'd be good to emphasise that while things get creepy and ominous, there's also a lot of funny moments and heaps of love among the characters.
Or, you know. Just show them some memes.
absolutely love that people are counting down to dracula daily 2 months in advance. There's only five months of the year dracula daily DOESN'T cover, and people are already champing at the bit halfway through it. VALID
Hello and thank you for everything! Is it okay if I made a blog like yours for tracking this year?
Yes, please go ahead! I'd love to see that, and I'm sure others in the community would appreciate it too :)
hi dracula daily fandom~
this blog will not be active for the 2024 dracula season, which starts in a week's time. I decided this some time last year, and changes in my personal life have only solidified that decision. it is with a heavy heart that I acknowledge I likely will not be doing subsequent years, either.
thank you for having me for the past two years. I don't know if anyone will miss having this blog appear on their dash, but I know I will miss being tracker mod. I wasn't perfect, but I liked the project and am ultimately content with the work I did.
mod over and out, at least for now
Our good friend Jonathan Harker is getting ready to leave for his business trip, Mina Murray is picking out a new journal, Lucy Westenra is charming a gaggle of smitten suitors, Abraham van Helsing is wrapping up his lectures, and Castle Dracula is prepping the guest room for a very long stay.
Which must mean that Dracula Season is here again!
‘Dracula Season’ being a catchall term for the voracious reading, memeing, writing, illustrating, analyzing, and general fun-having that’s ensued since Matt Kirkland’s project, Dracula Daily, caught on with us back in 2022. The Substack had already been running before then, but it sparked a conflagration as time went on and readers old and new to Bram Stoker’s Dracula—the actual novel, not Coppola’s fanfiction—devoured it in a way that scratched an itch none of us knew we had. Stoker wrote the book in epistolary fashion, clumping sections together as needed for the pacing without perfect adherence to chronological order. Matt went ahead and put all the events in order and proceeded to set up a lovely chain of emails that delivered entries on those correlating dates.
This style of organization and pacing turned out to not only make the virtual book club that much easier to engage with, but left space in-between to stew on the story and relate with the characters themselves. Every day of waiting in the book feels weightier when you have to pace and sweat and worry in tandem with poor Jonathan trapped in the castle or Lucy wasting away or Mina running out the clock before she loses the fight for her own humanity. And while we sat with the story or the lulls between Dracula Seasons, some of us found ourselves craving more of that ghastly gothic horror goodness to the point that we figured:
“Well. Why don’t I make something?”
And then we did! Tons of creative works have been churned out in the wake of Dracula Daily’s high. I figured that while we’ve still got a bit of time to wait for May 3rd, we should check out all this new stuff in the meantime. (Plus a handful of neat stuff that just clicks with the Dracula itch overall.)
So, in the interest of Dracula Season pregaming, let’s take a look at…
FICTION
Blood of My Blood – A recent addition to the Dracula Bad Ending AU pile, and definitely one of the most harrowing and addictive group-produced narratives I’ve ever come across, Blood of My Blood is the dramatically gothic currently-WIP work of @ibrithir-was-here and @animate-mush’s devious design. Give or take a heap of other fascinated folks (hello!) adding ideas to put more Horror into the Horrors that our cast has to face. The premise:
The Transylvanian climax went fatally sour and the Harkers were forced to shelter with Dracula himself, including their half-vampire son, Quincey. Cut to two decades later, and Quincey finds himself out in modern London, smitten with Lu, adopted daughter of Arthur and Jack, and diving into certain bloodstained old documents that detail the real history of how his parents came to live in the castle. Said revelations coming not a moment too soon, as a storm is coming for him straight from the Carpathians…
Dracula Daily Sketch Collection – An array of illustrations that captures every entry beat by beat, the Dracula Daily Sketch Collection by Georgia Cook, alias @georgiacooked was dished out over the course of the last Dracula Season. Some of the most fun character designs out there.
Fanfiction Spotlight: BlueCatWriter – With a whopping 99 works devoted to the novel Dracula (so far, the number may have gone up since I blinked), @bluecatwriter is one of the most prolific and talented fanfiction scribblers out there. Romances, nightmares, and overlaps between the two seem to crop up the most, give or take a crossover. Seems fitting that those blue paw prints have contributed to BoMB too.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlefolk – An ongoing comic in which all your favorite characters from the Classics section get together and tackle some perils ranging from the mundane to the monstrous. Started by the amazing @mayhemchicken and posted on @lxgentlefolkcomic, this series is a love letter to beloved Victorian era lit, with a spotlight on the two couples leading the League. Namely, the Harkers, ala Dracula, and the Nortons, ala Sherlock Holmes,’ “A Scandal in Bohemia.” Mina and Irene are the driving investigative and steering forces here, and still deeply in love with their likewise-infatuated husbands, just like in their canons! What a concept! Alan.
Without spoiling the full character list, just know there are going to be a ton of familiar faces roaming around before you finish reading the first arc. Said arc having conveniently wrapped up just a few days ago! Give the comic and its bonus silliness a look if you’re in the mood for a new comfort-adventure epic.
Re: Dracula – Probably the most well-known and incredible thing to come out of the initial Dracula Daily wave. This podcast is a full audio drama that follows the same format as the Substack, with episodes coming out in time with the entries themselves. And it has an unfairly cool soundtrack. They have a Tumblr with @re-dracula, a site and a Patreon to check out before the series kicks up again on May 3rd. (Also, keep an eye out for their next work, an audio drama in the same style with Carmilla.)
The Soldier and the Solicitor – Another treat from @ibrithir-was-here, this one involves a bit of time travel trouble. Quincey Harker has stumbled out of World War I and into the same dark forest where his father once fled for his life…then runs into the man himself, on that same night. Jonathan Harker, young and starved and lost, who has no choice but to trust this stranger while the Weird Sisters are at his heels…despite said stranger having no shadow. It’s a tasty emotional trek, already complete on Tumblr, but now it’s turning into a Webtoon. While Ibrithir is juggling a number of other stories, she’ll be redrawing spruced up versions of the comic and adding a few new scenes as things unfold.
Substack Stack – You know what’s better than one emailed-out public domain book club? A mountain of them. Just. So, so many of them. You’ll see that a lot of these are finished, but some are still ticking along. Either way, they’re all great picks if you’re craving some more old school lit to fill the void between undead emails.
Frankenstein Weekly – Frankenstein
Jekyll and Hyde Weekly – The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Voyage of the Nautilus – Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Letters from Watson – Sherlock Holmes
The Invisible Mail – The Invisible Man
Letters from Bunny – E.W. Hornung’s short stories of the eponymous Bunny and Raffles
Letters Regarding Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse’s Bertie Wooster short stories, including the novel, Right Ho, Jeeves
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…The Beetle Weekly – The Beetle (NOTE: Do Not Read This.)
The Vampyres – A novella I finally wrenched through the gears of self-publication as of March this year. Starring a petite but powerful paranormal cast, The Vampyres, centers on an unscrupulous undead fellow who finds that the revenants of the world are being mowed down by an entity known only as ‘Quinn Morse.’ Between trying to save his neck and figure out where the shadowy bastard came from, the Vampyre in question crosses paths with a new paramour and handy human shield in the form of a grieving Good Samaritan. He’s even polite enough to invite the Vampyre into his home while he’s in dire straits! Surely this will end well. All the info is available here and a little author site is over here.
What Manner of Man – This is the one made for everyone who started out hoping there’d be a real love story with our good friend Jonathan Harker and the Count when he was at his most charismatic. Where that sea of wonders dried up into a mire of horror, What Manner of Man by @stjohnstarling keeps things firmly on the romantic tracks. This Substack stars the letter-writing priest Father Victor E. Ardelian as he finds himself meeting with one enigmatic Lord Alistair Vane. It isn’t long before interest turns into intrigue and intrigue into undead intimacies.
The entire novel has been completed—along with multiple epilogues in the author’s Patreon, allowing readers to choose for themselves just how the uncanny romance plays out in the end—and the Substack now has a number of other gothic goodies piling up in the meantime.
NONFICTION
Dracula Daily: A Unique Reading Experience: This one comes courtesy of @realwomenofgaming. It’s a short and sweet piece that amounts to a fun snapshot of the entire Dracula Daily ride. A cozy couple-minute read.
‘Dracula Daily’ is the One Substack You Need a Subscription To: Features my favorite Matt Kirkland interview. @mattkirkland, if you’re still floating around on here, thank you for dispatching our vampire newsletter again this year.
Dracula Daily is Tumblr’s hottest new book club: Alright, the ‘new’ part is worn out by now, but this one is still a delightful article to swing back around to. Two years on, this Polygon piece is a time capsule of those early months when people outside our bookworm bubble realized we were all happily receiving letters from our favorite classic gothic horror blorbos.
“How Mina Murray Became Dracula’s Girlfriend” – Princess Weekes, if you ever read this, thank you, thank you, thank you. I am sending oceans of love and millions of rewatches to your video essay. If you haven’t seen it yet, “How Mina Murray Became Dracula’s Girlfriend” is one of the most refreshing and well-made breakdowns of both the title subject and numerous other issues that have proliferated in the public view of Dracula’s cast and plot as adaptations endlessly warp or outright bastardize the actual novel. An incredibly cathartic watch.
Literary play gone viral: delight, intertextuality, and challenges to normative interpretations through the digital serialization of Dracula: A mouthful of a title for an even more elaborate article about the Dracula Daily phenomenon. This one is a full-on study that analyzes just what happened within the big bloodsucker book club surge and how its ‘wandering reading practices’ enriched the experience for participants.
“The Undying Undead: An analysis of the Dracula Daily community for a theory of online community formation and interaction” – We have a thesis on here! Look at that! @sirangelothebestest’s MA thesis used our vampiric book club as the bones for a massive brick of an academic piece that definitely deserves a look.
…And I think I’ll go ahead and cap things here.
This isn’t everything I got recommended, but if I had squashed all of it in here, I think folks’ eyes would start to fall out of their head. I hope you can find something cool to comb through here. Or, if there’s something great I overlooked, tack it onto the list! We’ve got just two weeks to go until we’re off with Mr. Harker. Let’s enjoy our respite before those castle doors close behind us.
*boops you all*
sadly, sideblogs cannot boop people back, or I'd do so with relish
please accept this big boop instead
okay for real this time
Super quick gender swapped Harkers as I continue to combat art block :D
Hilarious shit in dracula I can't get over
LIZARD FASHION
Dracula steals a wolf from the zoo and uses him to break a window
Quincey morris, my beloved, 1/2 only good things to ever come outta texas, all of him but ESPECIALLY TRIES TO SHOOT (BAT) DRACULA
Every time Seward is exasperated with van helsing's terrible explanations and, simultaneously, van helsing is exasperated with seward for his skepticism and refusal to consider vampires are real, But ESPECIALLY the corn and "tell me why a turtle lives so long?" "I don't know!!"
Dracula randomly getting a stray hat. (Prob to hide his scar?) That apparently to the English looked old and outta fashion so I can only sorta theorize that he bought it from Transylvania out of nostalgic purposes cuz?????? What the hell???
Reinfield suddenly talking not only sane, but like a higher than average educated gentleman as he pays high complements to VH, Quincey and Arthur when Seward introduces them. And Seward sit there like '??????????????? ' bonus points cuz earlier Harker said he was coming too and then Stoker just completely forgot to write him being in the room at all.
When Arthur and Quincey show up to save lucy at perfect timing (bonus points cuz in @re-dracula Quincey has the most texan sounding theme and it completely shifts the tone of the scene as soon as he's there)
VH literally saying how Seward gets no bitches (in Victorian English)
My good friend...
saw dracula daily trending and my very first thought was "wait, I thought it was the off season??" as if there is actually an on season for draculas in real life.
me, before reading dracula, with a preconceived notion that count dracula is this suave and misunderstood dude because of modern adaptations: oh boy!! i can't wait to see how cool count dracula is!!
me, after reading dracula: oh. oh. he's a fucked up guy.
Thank you @re-dracula for giving me permission to do this, and also for creating the best adaptation of Dracula
I don't think it can be seen but underneath piss I did yellow first and then black over the top
Original post can be found here
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My dealer: got some straight gas 👌🔥🔥 this is called paprika hendl 🐓🔥 youll be zonked out of your gourd
me: I don’t feel anything
five minutes later: im having queer dreams…
my good friend Jonathan harker pacing: the villagers keep speaking of were-wolves and vampires…I must ask the Count about these superstitions…
Mina Harker, from Dracula. Really been digging the colour palette for the creepier parts of the story
(Mina Harker, de Dracula. Me estuvo gustando una banda la paleta de colores para las partes más oscuras del libro)
