I'm marking today's entry as very important because it introduces to the rarest kind of information in Dracula - new Arthur facts! we now know that he can drive and play tennis, which has pretty much doubled our knowledge of the guy
Mina, 19 August:
I must write no more; I must keep it to say to Jonathan, my husband.
Mina, 24 August:
When the chaplain and the sisters had left me alone with my husband—oh, Lucy, it is the first time I have written the words 'my husband'
It's delightful that she's so excited about this that she's forgotten that she literally wrote it five days ago.
Drawing Dracula, Seven years later: Well worth the pain we endured
7 Years Later
I love that in his last letter to us, Jonathan mentions only his friends. He makes no reference to the Count himself, only the terrible memories that he and the others are moving on from. Jonathan seems to have let go of that fierce anger. And of course, he closes the letter with van Helsing's praise of Mina.
can't believe its over 😭
Goodbye Jonathan "my good friend" Harker
Goodbye Mina "I am the train fiend" Harker
Goodbye Lucy "polyamorous icon" Westerna
Goodbye Dr John "what are morals" Seward
Goodbye Quincey "shoot a bat" Morris
Goodbye Arthur "money solves everything" Holmwood
Goodbye Dr. Abraham "I am an expert in everything" Van Helsing
Fuck you Count "lizard fashion" Dracula
You will be missed. Except for Dracula.
Actual things that happen in the 1897 Dracula novel, without context:
- A character has ominous nightmares and attributes them to eating too much paprika
- Dracula first appears wearing a fake beard
- The person he was trying to fool with the fake beard immediately realizes Dracula and Beard Guy are the same man, due to both having really firm handshakes
- We are told parrots are immortal unless fatally wounded
- A Texan cowboy opens fire on a bat flitting around a window, and lodges a bullet in the wall of an occupied room
- A woman is called a polyandrist for receiving blood transfusions from multiple men
- An incorrectly addressed telegram leads to two deaths, multiple druggings, and several children being assaulted
- Dracula, while trying to maintain a low profile, takes a lovely trip to the zoo and freaks out the animals so badly that he gets mentioned in a newspaper article
- The one character who knows anything about vampires spends a good two-thirds of the book refusing to talk about vampires
- Dracula went to Satan's Witchcraft Academy and somehow this is only brought up in two throwaway lines
- A character gets stuck inside a circle of communion wafer crumbs
- A major plot point of the book is Dracula (who was said to be a brilliant scholar and has the strength of twenty mortal men) realizing he can move boxes without human help
- Someone is referred to as "manifestly a prig of the first water"
- Two characters have a hobby of reading train schedules
- A hospital lets a mental patient escape to see what will happen
- A character starts vomiting up feathers from eating whole birds
- A doctor refuses to give a medical diagnosis and instead makes a speech about growing corn
- Dracula impersonates another character just by wearing the same clothes, despite being taller and visibly much older. This deception is successful.
- A character "cleans" a room by eating all the insects in it
- Suddenly: rats. Thousands of them.
- The heroes progress in their efforts through "the wonderful power of money," i.e., bribery
- Dracula has three other vampires in his castle. Their relation to him is never explained, nor are any of them named.
- A character insists his salvation depends on having a pet cat
- Dracula is thwarted by flowers on more than one occasion
- A group of vampires stand in the hall outside a man's bedroom, talking loudly about their plans to eat him. When he comes to the door to confront them, they run away laughing
- Dracula wears an unfashionable hat and gets roasted for it
- A group of Romanians encounter a disheveled, shouting man and, "seeing from his violent demeanour that he was English, they [give] him a ticket for the furthest station on the way thither that the train reached."
- A boat crashes due to Dracula having the munchies
- A wolf is thrown through a window and immediately runs off, confused and covered in glass
- Dracula makes a bed
Should have posted this yesterday, but I do find it slightly amusing that Mina basically spends a whole day just sitting in a circle
6 November - It's finally over 🌅
these are part of an animatic summarising Dracula, which you can watch here (i would say new readers beware, it has spoilers for the book but well... we are at the end already)
Someone please let the volunteers at the Church of St Marys rest
A very disgruntled Church volunteer: Dracula isn't buried anywhere because he turned to dust, and he was turned to dust in Transylvania and his dust isn't in Transylvania because he's A FICTIONAL CHARACTER thank you I will put some spooky clip art on here to distract from the fact I'm gonna deck the next person who asks
Why don't you try spending a moment of quiet up by the altar of the church and maybe you'll calm down about Dracula
Bringing this back. I also love how "Dracula is fiction." is bolded and in a larger font. They did not try to hide the salt in the slightest
have you ever wished for the very last paragraphs of the very last chapter of bram stoker’s dracula in comic form? search no more! I saw a need and I filled it. :’)
yes, in retrospect….
November 6: Went out with his boots on.
Happy Dracula Finale day!
heres a quick silly drawing to commemorate!
Hope you enjoy, and have an AWESOME day!!
CW: Death
Dracula Daily sketches for November 6th.
In which events converge.
Reading through today’s entry and somehow skipped the sentence about Van Helsing taking his field-glasses (aka binoculars) from their case, so at “he handed me his glasses and told me to look” I pictured Van Helsing taking his glasses off his head and Mina putting them on like O-O to look at something
(she isnt)
Actually, Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Frustrated that a good Dracula adaptation doesn’t exist I just made my own movie poster for the movie that should exist but somehow doesn’t!!!