#dracula media

[shadowsteed15]

So for all the new people just entering the Dracula fandom - and I truly hope there’s a lot of you - and for everyone else, I thought I would give you a list of some of my favourite Dracula stuff so you can get an inspiration as to what to look at next. 😊

Movies

- Dracula (1931) - Hammer Dracula series (with Christopher Lee) - Count Dracula (1970) - Van Helsing (2004) - Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995) - Dracula 2000 (2000) - Count Dracula (1977) - Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) - Dracula (1979)

TV shows

- Dracula (2013) - Dracula (2020) - Young Dracula (2006)

Video games

- Dracula 3: The Path of the Dragon (2008) - Dracula 4: The Shadow of the Dragon (2013) - Dracula 5: The Blood Legacy (2013) - Dracula: Origin (2008)

Plays

- Dracula, the Musical (Dracula das Musical in German)

Comics

- The Tomb of Dracula (1972) - Bram Stoker's Dracula (2020) with the count as Bela Lugosi

Books

- Dracula the Undead (Freda Warrington, 1997) - The Tangled Skein (David Stuart Davies, 1999) - Fred Saberhagen Dracula series - Dracula, My Love: The Secret Journals of Mina Harker (2010)

Audiobooks

- The Unquenchable Thirst of Dracula (2017) - Dracula (2016) with David Suchet and Tom Hiddleston

[prokopetz]

Being as Dracula Daily is starting up again in about three days, I think this is a perfect opportunity, as we follow along this year, to play the PG-13 game.

For the unfamiliar, the PG-13 game is as follows: you are allowed to insert one and only one instance of the word "fuck" into the text as written. For maximum impact, where do you put it?

[tooth-with-eyes]

[evydraws]

"It seemed as if the whole, awful creature were simply gorged with blood; he lay like a filthy leech, exhausted with his repletion."

Bram Stoker's Dracula | portfolio | prints

[winters-orbit]

I think what I love most about current day tumblr and it’s obsession with things like Dracula daily and Goncharov is that it’s a reminder that the internet and social media can be fun. It’s not all algorithms and selling things to you based on data the company got from tracking all your movements. Sometimes it’s about coming together to have fun over something completely superfluous and stupid but ultimately meaningful because we gave it meaning.

[wolfsteax]

Anyway, my human Narinder concept.

[can-of-w0rmz]

The Herr Englishman 🕯🦇

[vampiresque]

GLORIA HOLDEN as COUNTESS ZALESKA DRACULA'S DAUGHTER (1936)

[theroseinthedarkness]

DRACULA (1979)

dir. John Badham

[vampyr-tea]

You mean to tell me…I could’ve had an animated Dracula movie by this legend…🧍I’m. Going to. Destroy the world. 🦇

[see-arcane]

Thinking about how Jonathan Harker’s role as the haunted vampire hunter-archenemy has been so thoroughly pushed onto Van Helsing's shoulders. Annoying as it is to see in so many adaptations and spinoffs, I can’t help King Laughing about both the comedic and dramatic potential of this misconception as it would apply to future supernatural shenanigans post-Dracula canon

Specifically, how hilarious and/or advantageous it would be to

Have would-be enemies getting bamboozled by one of Dr. Abe’s monologues, as per rambling banter rule, only to have some soft-spoken solicitor drop off the wall behind them and kukri them in half without a word. Or,

Have our good friend Jonathan Harker constantly getting approached by people with a bad case of the Horrors, said people assuming the white-haired, haunted-eyed, knife-wielding, vampiric vendetta fellow must surely be the famous Abraham van Helsing who—by way of a game of Victorian telephone is assumed to have—‘spent a season in close quarters with a horde of vampires, injured the latter without even a holy item on his person, scaled a mountainside and traversed the Carpathians barefoot, and sent Count Dracula himself running after nearly splitting him in two..!’

All while Jonathan ‘Only Assertive Under Duress’ Harker is just sitting there, politely waiting for the chance to speak up and say, no, actually, that professor over there is Abraham van Helsing. His name is Jonathan H—

“Oh, Jonathan van Helsing? My apologies. Was it your father who did all that?”

Jonathan, sweating: “um—"

Van Helsing, not immune to a Good Bit: “No, no, it was him! My child, do not be shy on the matter of your so many harrowing feats! He brings such pride to the Van Helsing name.” :)

Jonathan, internally: (Why this???)

Mina, internally: (It keeps our name out of the wind and away from snooping supernatural ears, darling. I’d rather Mary not open the door on an angry undead horde because they knew where to find Mr. and Mrs. Harker.)

Mina, out loud, the Power of Prank Compels Her: “He really is too modest.” <3

I just think it’s a gimmick that could get some good mileage as a misdirection ploy and a feasible in-universe excuse for why Van Helsing keeps getting all the Dracula Nemesis credit

[shesnake]

Zahra Newman performing every role in Kip William's Dracula, Sydney Theatre Company 2024.

[prokopetz]

Fact: The earliest reliably dated use of the phrase “fucked up” appears in the court records of a US Navy court-martial case from 1863; the way the phrase is used suggests that its meaning was already well known at the time, but this is the first known printed record of it that we can confidently put a date to.

Additional fact: Bram Stoker’s Dracula is set in 1897.

Conclusion: It would not anachronistic for your Dracula fanfic to have a character describe the Count as a fucked up old man.

[milyas-girlblogging-era]

i feel so bad for vampires like i would be evil too if i couldn’t eat garlic bread that’s so fucking sad. what a miserable existence omg.

[sexyleon]

Dracula has been my favourite novel for just under two decades and I have reread it multiple times throughout the years, but nothing compares to the experience of @re-dracula . Something about hearing the voices of all the characters, experiencing the horror as it happened to them, is more chilling, more compelling, and more terrifying than any other reading experience. Nothing is filled in and nothing is cut out. It’s a 1:1 adaptation that places you between predator and prey. The voice acting, the sound design, the pacing— all of it lends itself to a completely immersive experience that transforms Dracula from a silly little vampire story into a fundamentally horrifying tale.

Anyways, you can listen to Re: Dracula here.

[marzipanandminutiae]

the themes of homoeroticism between Dracula and Jonathan are an interesting narrative thread to pluck at, but if you erase Mina to make them an exclusive couple, I am gluing Legos to the soles of your feet