#dracula 1897

[deespoinaa]

Every year I watch that white boy go, with no way of warning him. No way of letting him know. Helplessly watching him devour his paprika chicken before journeying the road to his doom. Don’t go, white boy. Don’t go.

[piannpire]

castle dracula arc my beloved

original:

[corvys-clover]

Dracula season... it beckons......

(Alts and dress ref ⬇)

[edwire]

big fan of whatever the hell these guys have going on

[wicker-draws]

dracula concept cover from a few months ago! the harkers <3 they will always be famous to me <3

[kuzakat]

And if they get me and the sun goes down

And if they get me, take this spike and

You put the spike in my heart!

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I'll never let them, I'll never let them

I'll never let them hurt you, not tonight

I'll never let them hurt you, I promise

~ Vampires Will Never Hurt You - My Chemical Romance

[jhoca]

Bachelors

The three bachelors who propose to Lucy in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897)! I laugh at the thought that it's like the Victorian Bachelorette (but in a funny satirical way like in Shrek). I love that Art canonically has a bunch of terriers (spoiler? lmao)

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[thegoatsongs]

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

One of Carmilla's influences on Dracula can be found in Lucy Westenra:

Carmilla and Lucy are both victims of a vampire who attacked them 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, at times bloodstained.

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 female townsfolk, Lucy with 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 romantic 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 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.