#Dracula by Bram Stoker

[poetic-poltergeist]

Now, I do not believe stabbing people is an okay thing to do, and I do love Doctor Seward, but if I was Renfield I would have also stabbed my psychiatrist.

[lauralot89]

Horny Dracula fans, take two

I made this poll already but I left off names like an idiot so let me do my spiel again

You have been given an unlimited budget and an unlimited run time to make your ideal adaptation of Dracula. You can be as faithful or unfaithful as you want, it's all up to you, with one caveat:

Dracula has to have a relationship, sexual or romantic or both, with one of the humans.

Now if I just made a poll right here, the answer would overwhelmingly be Jonathan Harker. Let's be real. Even if you don't personally ship it, he's the one Dracula spends the most time with, he's the one Dracula declares to be his and stares at while saying "I too can love," Jonathan's plot parallels so many damn "pretty lady with dangerous man" narratives like Bluebeard and Scheherazade and so on and so forth, it all writes itself

so I have removed him as a choice because I'm genuinely curious as to who your second choice would be and why

You don't have to vote on what you think would be cute or whatever (I mean you can if you want but given what Dracula is and his goals I don't think he can have a cute or even vaguely healthy relationship with a human), just whatever you think would be most narratively interesting. Whether within the narrative of the existing story or going off in some other direction.

Give me your vampire romance thesis

[distort-opia]

So I get that a guy might be working through his complicated homosexual crush on his boss via writing a genre-defining novel in the 19th century, in which their boss becomes a vampire aristocrat that seduces and kills people all over the place. Sure. But it's weird that it happens fucking twice? Both with John Polidori's The Vampyre (1819) and Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897)?

Polidori bases off Lord Ruthaven on Lord Byron, for whom he worked as a personal physician and travel companion for a short while; all while admiring him immensely and being obsessed with him and resenting him too, for his literary talent and status in society. They had a tumultuous relationship, and the history of The Vampyre as a published story is also very interesting, but... Bram Stoker apparently also based Count Dracula off Henry Irving, a famous actor he worked for as a business manager for like 27 years? And their relationship is also described as extremely close, with Bram Stoker being a huge fan of Irving and constantly catering to his needs, to the point of people around him describing Irving as the most important person to him. And the fact both Byron and Irving were described as distant and mean-spirited to Polidori and Stoker, with the former being a lot worse than the latter. In both The Vampyre and Dracula, the suave vampire noble is, in some ways, an incarnation of the male main character's forbidden and complicated desires-- made evil because of their simultaneous emotional and societal inaccessibility, turned into supernatural leeches that must be defeated and who interestingly seek out mostly women as their victims. John Polidori's story ends with Aubrey dying and Lord Ruthaven draining his sister after having killed his lover, but Bram Stoker's novel has Jonathan kill off Count Dracula and Mina surviving after Dracula caused Lucy's death. And John Polidori ended up committing suicide, but fortunately Bram Stoker lived on. One exorcised their demons better than the other.

...I just did not expect to go on this vampire obsession spiral because of Nosferatu (2024) and end up with the new perspective of "Wow, poor Aubrey/Jonathan/Thomas, they took your gay Count away and made him mainly an expression of the female character's repressed desires." Goddamn.

[villiarty]

Actually, uh, I drink lots of fluids. Red fluids. Much like your wine. Except it is not wine.

What We Do in the Shadows — 5.02 A Night Out with the Guys / Dracula by Bram Stoker, Chapter II: Jonathan Harker’s Journal (continued) / Dracula (1931) dir. Tod Browning

[canon-in-too-deep]

Free Dracula Typeset

Here lies Dracula...as a half letter typeset🧛. There's two versions of this letter folio pdf in my google drive. The one with the title page above and a one with a non bloody, black and white title page instead. Otherwise, the two files are the same. The typesets are completely free for ya to use, just leave credit and consider dropping a like/reblog if yee can! Interior images below the break...also, I'm not 100% set on this title page design. Might make another version later on if I find new inspiration.

Link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1S2wl_PuxCupofnDpqGuk7VjMHYFMWC6g?usp=sharing

[lonewolf638]

Mina Harker's Journal, Dracula & Sam Winchester, Supernatural

CHUCK You want to know if I know about the demon blood. I didn't even write it into the books. I was afraid it would make you look unsympathetic.

x

[redversaillesrose]

Note to self: If I ever publish my vampire story, use this post as a reference of what the cover of the first edition should look like to make it a pillar of vampire literature.  

[godinvent]

So I saw this post about how in the books, Dracula is actually an old man and I always imagined Dracula looked like older Christopher Lee, who played him while he was a kid. While looking him up I accidentally discovered that Christopher Lee was the coolest person in the universe and there is a non-zero chance he was actually Dracula in real life

Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee CBE CStJ (May 27th 1922 - June 7th 2015), Sir because he was knighted in 2009 for his charity and his contributions to cinema

So first of all, I saw that he actually knew 8 LANGUAGES (English, Spanish, French, Swedish, Italian, German, Russian and Greek) and was also a staggering 6 feet 5 inches in height. Born in Belgravia in London, one of the most Dracula sounding places I’ve ever heard of, here’s some insane facts about him

•His father, Lieutenant Colonel Geoffrey Trollope Lee of the 60th King's Royal Rifle Corps, fought in the Boer War and World War 1

•His mother, Countess Estelle Marie (née Carandini di Sarzano) was an Edwardian beauty who was painted by Sir John Lavery, Oswald Birley, and Olive Snell, and sculpted by Clare Sheridan

•Lee's maternal great-grandfather, Jerome Carandini, the Marquis of Sarzano, was an Italian political refugee

•Jerome’s wife was English-born opera singer Marie Carandini (née Burgess), meaning that Lee is also related to famous opera singer Rosina Palmer

•His parents would divorce when he was four and his mother would marry Harcourt George St-Croix Rose, banker and uncle of Ian Fleming, making the author of the James Bond books Lee’s step cousin. Fleming would then offer him two roles as the antagonist in the film adaptations of his books, though he was only able to land the antagonist role in The Man With the Golden Gun. It’s believed his role in the film is significantly better and more complex than his book counterpart, played as “a dark side of Bond”

•His family would move and they lived next door to famous silent film actor Eric Maturin

•One night, before he was even 9 years old, he was introduced to Prince Yusupov and Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich, THE ASSASSINS OF GRIGORI RASPUTIN, WHOM LEE WOULD GO ON TO PLAY MANY YEARS LATER

•Lee applied for a scholarship to Eton, where his interview was in the presence of the ghost story author M.R. James, who is considered one of the best English language ghost story writers in history and who widely influenced modern horror

•He only missed by King’s Scholar by one place by being bad at math, one of the only flaws God gave him

•Due to lack of working opportunities, Lee was sent to the French Riviera and stayed with his sister and her friends while she was on holiday, and on the way there he stopped briefly in Paris with journalist Webb Miller, a friend of his step father. Webb Miller was an American journalist and war correspondent and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the execution of the French serial killer Henri Désiré Landru, also known as BLUEBEARD. He also helped turn world opinion against British colonial rule of India

•While staying with Miller he witnessed Eugen Weidmann’s execution by guillotine, the last public execution ever performed in France

•Arriving in Menton, Lee stayed with the Russian Mazirov family, living among exiled princely families

•When World War 2 began, Lee volunteered to fight for the Finnish Army against the Soviet Union in the Winter War, and a year later, Lee would join the Home Guard. After his father died, he would join the Royal Air Force and was an intelligence officer and leading aircraft man and would later retire as a flight lieutenant in 1946

•While spending some time on leave in Naples, Lee climbed Mount Vesuvius, which erupted only three days later

•After nearly dying in an assault on Monte Cassino, Lee was able to visit Rome where he met his mother’s cousin Nicolò Carandini, who had fought in the Italian Resistance Movement. Nicolò would later go on to be the Italian Ambassador to Britain. Nicolò was actually the one to convince Lee to become an actor in the first place

•Oh yeah Christopher Lee was seconded to the Central Registry of War Criminals and Security Suspects where he was tasked with HELPING TRACK DOWN NAZI WAR CRIMINALS

•Lee’s stepfather served as a captain in the Intelligence Corps

•He was actually told he was too tall to be an actor, though that would honestly help him considering one of his first roles was as The Creature in The Curse of Frankenstein

•He was cast in Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N (1951) as a Spanish captain due to not only his fluency in Spanish but also he knew how to fence!

•Lee’s portrayal of Dracula had a crucial aspect of it which Bela Lugosi’s didn’t have: sexuality, a prime aspect of the original novels.

•While being trapped into playing Dracula under Hammer Film Productions, Lee actually hated the script so much that he would try his best to sneak actual lines from the original novel into the script

•Ironically, he was rejected from playing in The Longest Day because “he didn’t look like a military man”

•Christopher Lee was friends with author Dennis Wheatley, who “was responsible for bringing the occult into him”. He would go on to play in two film adaptations of his novels

•His biggest regret in his career is not taking the role of Sam Loomis from Halloween when offered to him

•Christopher Lee was the only person involved with the Lord of the Rings movies to have actually met J.R.R Tolkien

•When playing Count Dooku, he actually did most of the swordsmanship himself

•Christopher Lee was the second oldest living performer to enter the Billboard Top 100 charts with the song “Jingle Hell” at 91 years old. After media attention, he would get No. 18, and Lee became the oldest person to ever hit the Billboard Top 20 chart

I really am leaving some stuff out here and I may go on

[nemeyuko]

Me @ Raoul de Chagny and Quincey P. Morris

[mrhyde-mrseek]

Ok yeah no I’m drawing the entire cast. Be warned, there’s more coming

[weird-tea]

You know that game where you take a movie that is allowed one 'fuck' due to the rating but doesn't have one, and you pick where the 'fuck' should go? That but for Dracula.

So many of those characters deserve a nice cathartic swear, but where would it be most impactful?

Van Helsing arriving to find Lucy dead with the garlic gone feels like a strong contender. There are so many moments of Jonathan at castle Dracula that it would make so much sense. Quincey being the only one with a foul mouth feels right so maybe it's him, maybe in his final moments he realises he's dying and says it. Maybe it's dignified Arthur Holmwood breaking down for a moment, at the death of his love, in the aftermath of having to slay her vampire, or realising his dear friend Quincey is also lost. Perhaps it's Dr Seward feeling guilt & sorrow at finding his his patient Renfeild dead, realising he failed to help him just like he failed Lucy. Maybe it's 'school teachers never swear' Mina after reading of Jonathan's time in captivity.

Or maybe it's something joyful. Maybe it's uttered in the bright moment of Jonathan & Mina's wedding night amongst all the horror. Maybe it's spoke in ruful joy by Quincey or Jack to Arthur because fuck yeah man I'm heartbroken for my self but so fucking happy for you my dearest friend that she said yes. Maybe Van Helsing has a drink with his old pupil to celebrate when it looks like Lucy may recover, and it's a break in the mentor/pupil dynamic letting Jack see him in a human moment but it's all right because they are more than that now they are old friends truly and isn't that absurd and wonderful. Maybe is Lucy & Mina talking about men and marriage and giggling together under the covers in Whitby. Maybe it's Jonathan getting fired up in his passionate devotion to Mina on the train to hunt Dracula, surrounded by darkness and despair but still holding fast to and so blissfully overwhelmed but his love for this astonishing woman.

[dbmars]

This is how you will know it’s me at C2E2!!!

[lauralot89]

Listen up all you horny Dracula fans

You have been given an unlimited budget and an unlimited run time to make your ideal adaptation of Dracula. You can be as faithful or unfaithful as you want, it's all up to you, with one caveat:

Dracula has to have a relationship, sexual or romantic or both, with one of the humans.

Now if I just made a poll right here, the answer would overwhelmingly be Jonathan Harker. Let's be real. Even if you don't personally ship it, he's the one Dracula spends the most time with, he's the one Dracula declares to be his and stares at while saying "I too can love," Jonathan's plot parallels so many damn "pretty lady with dangerous man" narratives like Bluebeard and Scheherazade and so on and so forth, it all writes itself

so I have removed him as a choice because I'm genuinely curious as to who your second choice would be and why

Personally my vote would be Lucy both because she's the only person who doesn't outright hate Dracula (mostly because she never met him while conscious) and also they're parallels to each other in some ways (he has the three brides, she has the three suitors, etc) but I would be interested to see what everybody else is shipping, give me your sexy vampire thesis

[mourningmaybells]

i think a lot about how in a lot of older (but also newer) media, sexual assault is treated seriously when the perpetrator is not white, not american, or is jewish or gay coded like. hmmm. maybe people gave Dracula too much credit for being "ahead of its time"

[firelife14]

One of the things that bothered me when i first read Dracula, is the way Van Helsing talks. His English isn't flawless, which makes total sense, but it's so far from the mistakes a Dutch person would make. Listening to Re: Dracula now, I hoped his accent would be actually Dutch but uhhh... That's not Dutch... It's something Scandinavian I think? I know the name Helsing is Finnish, but the character is supposed to be Dutch...

[bumps-in-the-night]

I put the Dracula gang into the incorrect quote generator (https://incorrect-quotes-generator.neocities.org/)

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