i finally read dracula the book by bram stoker a few years ago and it's totally bananas. very excited about new tech (typewriters! blood transfusions, as poorly understood by stoker!). there's a cowboy in it. nestled inside is a vastly superior horror novel about a doomed ship

Funny thing is that the book is tied into Castlevania. It's kinda how I got introduced to both of them LOL. I also treat the story as a grand mystery. What's also funny is that Symphony of the Night Dracula was VERY quick to pop into my head.🤣🤣🤣

Whenever I taught it, I was struck anew by how very weird it is.

What I love about DRACULA, the book, is that it is basically the literary equivalent of “found footage”.

also blood transfusions are explicitly compared to the intimacy of sex, at some length

That superior novel nestled inside is why I was so excited when I heard they were making "The Last Voyage of the Demeter" and then so disappointed after I saw it.

I love it sm but Van Helsing monologues so much and my ADHD struggled so bad with his passages.

Europeans were and remain very into cowboys.

also, Mina is so strong in the book and plays such a crucial role she’s often just seen as a damsel in distress in most films but she knows the importance of collaboration and note taking and team work hehe i like her

They made a movie about the ship recently it was Fine

also lots more preachiness about Christian female virtue than I would've expected from the advertisements