Dracula - Bram Stoker - So You Haven't Read

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As I've pretty much always been into Gothic horror and vampires, Dracula is my all time favorite Gothic Horror novel. I mean, I enjoyed Frankenstein back when I read it in high school, but Dracula takes the cake for me.

So, I've been doing some research into Bram Stoker's backstory for the Count, and I can say unequivocally: the Count is NOT Vlad the Impaler. Rather, Vlad the Impaler existed in an earlier age than the Count's, and one of the Count's exploits as a Voivode himself was directly inspired in-universe by Vlad's crossing of the Danube to attack the Turks. Stoker got most of his information from the historically-inaccurate book "An Account of the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia" which is where he got the name "Dracula" from plus the little blurbs of backstory we have; this book also erroneously stated that "Dracula" translated literally to "Devil" and was a surname given to anyone who had a reputation for cunning, courage, and/or cruelty.

Came here afterwatching "Last Voyage of the Demeter". Film was massively underwhelming if I'm to be honest. Wish they could have handed off that concept to someone who knew what they were doing.

Bram Stoker's 189 Gothic shocker introduced Count Dracula to the world, an ancient creature bent on bringing his contagion to London. First and foremost, I tried to get into Dracula my friend said he's sexy, but I don't think so, he's boring....

I have a video of Vampire too but this one is indeed educational and inspiring.

Transilvania was part of Austria Hungary at that time, not Romania, darlings!

If you want a proper book try The Castel in the Carpathians by Jules Verne!

What traveling journal?! The effing Irishman didn't even make it past Budapest!

i hate how in the movies thay make it a love story between dracula and mina. in the novel he goes after mina as a revenge for leading the others against him.he comes to her one night and tells her she is going to be punished for helping those who are looking for him.he tells her if she tries to wake jonathan up he will smash his brains all over the wall in front of her,then tells her before he punishes her that he is thirsty and he will drink from her again like his own wine press ,then forcing her to drink from him.not ONE movie as ever portrayed dracula as the evil monster that stoker wrote.stoker never wrote him as this aristocat who mingled with society ,hollywood created THAT dracula..francis ford coppolas dracula (altho a good movie)strays so far from bram stoker novel.i loved the way dracula was portrayed in the last voyage of the demeter ,pure evil and bloodthirsty,i think bram stoker would have loved it.maybe as he sat looking out of his window when he was writing dracula at the hotel he was staying at in whitby were apparently he heard about the russian vessel that crashed there, he thought the exact thing,exept about the huge dog/wolf that sprang from the demeter as it smashed against the shores of whitby .

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One of the things I sort of found funny. I read a kids version of the novel when I was around five, which went more usual storytelling rather than the journals. However, in the book, Dracula transformed into the wolf on his "final"feeding of Lucy. Same for "Bram Stokers Dracula"(movie). It is really hilarious that when I read the actual book, Dracula stole a wolf from the zoo and friggin' yeeted it through the window to give Lucy's mother a heart attack. XD

Onion Dracula in this is hilarious.

Where did Dracula get the chicken he served Jonathan...?

UUUGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH It KILLS me how many things you piece back together from the first reading whenever they’re mentioned by someone else. As in, “What the hell even WERE those blue ghost fires that Dracula went to interact with at the beginning of the book?!”

THOSE WERE HIS BRIDES. They were his brides in spectral form. *face palm

Wasn’t it just Arthur Godalming whom stuck a stake through her heart? He was her fiancé and it would be unnecessary to do it multiple times. I swear that’s how it was!

It would've been historically accurate for the Dracula novel to mention Coca Cola, Nintendo, Altoids, AT&T, and A1 steak sauce.

Call of Cthulhu, by H.P. Lovecraft, is written in this same epistolary style. I highly recommend it, if you're looking for another horror story to read.

Can I use this art style. I love how it looks and how simple it is.

While i haven't read the book, I have seen a stage performance put on by my college's drama department.

Bram stoker is my great great great great grandfather

I read this a while ago and it is honestly 11/10 stars, 100% worth reading.

I really didn’t like this book

Yeah, this is a terrible synopsis of Dracula.

Do Camilla, it's also about vampires, but is older and very sapphic

Dead from vampire and not the blood transfusion from three separate guys.

I'm signed up for Dracula Daily and I plan not to read it until that starts up

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My favorite thing about Dracula is it feels like Stoker only knows his english accent so he's just guessing Quincy and Vanhelsing's

"a lot of this book is about sex and gender because of the blood, steaks, and vampire stuff"

Dude, do you think the reason all those men put stakes in the undead body of their former courtee was so that some souless monstrosity isn't parading around as the person they all loved?

Is that idea really alien to you, or am I missing a clear analytical symbolism that you know more about?

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I think you got Lucy and Mina’s characters mixed up.

did you have to use the Jackman Van Helsing? sakes...

fascinating re-watching this (having forgotten all the details) after having just finished dracula daily

Harker doesn't escape by jumping in the river- that's Coppola's film. Harker, after seeing Dracula scaling the wall, realizes that he could do the same because the walls are so worn that there are essentially footholds. He scales the wall, and hobbles away.

Also, it's made pretty clear in the book that the reason for giving Lucy all three men's blood is simply a matter of convenience, and practicality (at the time). Van Helsing didn't anticipate the problems that left Lucy unguarded and vulnerable to Dracula, meaning that he had to do three transfusions instead of the one. Each time he had to rely on a different person, in part because the amount of blood needed (As Quincy Morris observes) for one transfusion was so great as to be unsustainable. The transfusions are given in roughly the span of two weeks, and in two weeks no single person could give that much blood. Because the three healthy men are in proximity to Lucy during her struggle, they happily volunteer, even though Van Helsing initially discourages Seward from doing so.

The use of garlic and the death of Mina's mother was described as if it happened in one night. Lucy's ordeal takes place over a good deal of time (roughly three chapters) and Dracula doesn't appear as a wolf until the event of her memorandum, when he drugs the maids and kills her mother. This sounds more, again, like the condensed version in Coppola's film.

I question whether the person making this actually read the book- it sounds more like Cliff notes and Coppola to me.

dracula vampires and blood.

Just Finished it. It was a pretty good book.

I didn't feel you captured Lucy vs Mina well at all.

Because while you can argue that Lucy is "modern" she is also the one that openly complains that women aren't allowed to DO things while you have Mina who just DOES things. She might claim she is traditional again and again, but her actions show her to be quite different.

Dracula is so good, if for no other reason than Mina. Yes, I have her name and so I'm biased, but seriously, the novel is so interesting!

Even this rereading doesn't give Mina the credit she deserves! Mina might SAY she is traditional, but she is a New Woman. The evidence is all gathered by Mina and even Helsing says he cannot imagine solving the mystery without her! It really does feel like you're not giving Mina the credit she deserves.

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Dracula by Bram Stoker is a horrible read.

It is full of absurd Victorian flowery language and only the idea is good. The actual novel is dire

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Dracula Daily's got me coming back to watch this.

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The story of the ship dracula arrived is easily my favourite chapter. So chilling

First extra video watched in few years, seems we got new narrator.