#mark of dracula

[livingdeadgrl666]

𝕸𝖆𝖗𝖐 𝖔𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖁𝖆𝖒𝖕𝖎𝖗𝖊 🖤🪦🦇

[goryhorroor]

day 18 of horror: female vampires

[alucarddaily]

COUNTDOWN TO CASTLEVANIA: NOCTURNE—ONE EPISODE PER DAY

Day 32: "It's Been a Strange Ride"

[ex-libris-craux]

So Re: Dracula ended and has left a horror-themed-audiofiction-shaped hole in your life? Please allow me to recommend Shadows At The Door as your next listen! Some reasons you may be interested:

David Ault (Judge Moneybags, aka Lord Arthur Godalming) is, for the first couple of seasons, almost literally the entire cast. There are jokes about it. So many jokes. I think there are even T-shirts.

Karim Kronfli- you know, that Dracula dude? Is also a recurring VA, including for SatD's PHENOMENAL dramatisation of The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Rahul Motherfucking Kohli - also a VA for SatD! Believe me when I say I screamed like a little girl and replayed the episode four times in a day.

Ever listened to The Magnus Archives? Did you like their sound design? Nico does the score for SatD as well and it's BREATHTAKING.

Jamie Flanagan wrote the script for an episode in the current season. Yes, THAT Jamie Flanagan. The Haunting of Bly Manor, Midnight Mass, The Fall of the House Of Usher, Jamie Flanagan. You're welcome.

Two podcasts in one! Each episode features not just the horror fiction, but a post-episode discussion that is every bit as entertaining as the stories themselves. Mark Nixon (the showrunner) and David (Ault, yes), occasionally joined by VAs or writers, chat together thoughtfully, irreverently, frequently filthily, always entertainingly, sometimes even about the episode itself, lol (digressions are frequent, and frequently hilarious).

Drunk. Ghost. Stories. Trust me. TRUST ME.

The sound design is exquisite. Mark has a fantastically talented ear for effective and atmospheric foley and a flawless editor's touch.

An engaging blend of classic stories and new authors.

QUEER REP IN QUEER MEDIA MADE BY QUEER PEOPLE!!!!

Genuinely, Shadows at the Door is one of my favourite podcasts, full stop, and I cannot recommend it highly enough. It's just *so damn good*. Please consider giving it a listen!

[legendarybelmonts]

Richter Belmont

[caleod]

19-9-23

[vickyvicarious]

When I go there I shall be all alone, and my friend Harker Jonathan—nay, pardon me, I fall into my country's habit of putting your patronymic first—my friend Jonathan Harker will not be by my side to correct and aid me. He will be in Exeter, miles away, probably working at papers of the law with my other friend, Peter Hawkins.

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One was an atlas, which I found opened naturally at England, as if that map had been much used. On looking at it I found in certain places little rings marked, and on examining these I noticed that one was near London on the east side, manifestly where his new estate was situated; the other two were Exeter, and Whitby on the Yorkshire coast.

So... we all agree that Dracula plans to kill Jonathan before leaving the castle. Regardless of when he planned to do so, he's certain it will happen before leaving. And yet the places marked on his map are all directly related to his planned travel (and later attacks). Carfax, where he will live. Whitby, where he will land. Exeter, where...? As far as I recall, his other properties were all still within London.

...I have a suspicion that, in addition to killing Jonathan and covering up his fate with faked letters, Dracula has tentative plans to go and kill Mr. Hawkins as well upon arriving in London. It turns out not to be necessary in the end because he dies on his own before that, but I could see him having a plan to kill everyone who knows too much about his background.

In fact, it's possible the other lawyers were also marked for death, once a non-suspicious amount of time had passed after he finished his dealings with them. Or maybe it was just covering his tracks all the more with the disappearance of Jonathan, and the more normal communication through letters was inconspicuous enough that he didn't feel the need to go after them at all.

[hypnoticvamp]

Carroll Borland and Bela Lugosi in a publicity shot for Mark of the Vampire (1935)

[uri59]

*Seward meeting Jonathan*: How could this earnest and civil quiet English gentleman have done the things described in that diary?

*Seward seeing Jonathan's hair growing white with rage, describing him with hollow burning eyes and the energy of a living flame, seeing him jump from windows and striking at Dracula at the heart with a machete*: ohh

[livingdeadgrl666]

𝓜𝓪𝓻𝓴 𝓸𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓥𝓪𝓶𝓹𝓲𝓻𝓮

[goryhorroor]

30s horror girls

[rosie-the-demon]

Very important work

Aka forgery :)

Here are the references

[astrangergivingthestrangewelcome]

Can we all pour one out for one of the most important unnamed characters of the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker and that's Dr. Seward's housekeeper. That lady must have had no idea what the fuck was happening and she still had to feed everyone.

[starburstcosmos]

are we all out of mofftiss trauma yet? can we do dracula daily but sherlock holmes and be normal about it? can we all listen to sherlock & co together 👉👈

[addicted-to-the-knife]

Renfield (2023) is one of those vampire movies that gave me everything I could have wanted and more. I haven't felt this way about any vampire media in a long time. Nic Cage was the most perfect choice to play the count himself in this film. Just--- *chef's kiss*

[see-arcane-scribbles]

@animate-mush​ your tags are a treasure

Lucy, trying to sneak a sip of Arthur in bed: For me? :)

Van Helsing, yanking Arthur away: No!

Lucy, trying to sneak another sip of Arthur in the graveyard: Now for me? :)

Van Helsing, throwing down a Wafer paste baby gate: No! Not allowed! Ever! Does everyone understand?

Suitors Three: Yeah... <:( <:( <:(

Lucy, consigned to vampire jail in the tomb: >:(

One October 3rd Later

Mina, coming down with vampiritis: <:’(

Jonathan ‘Forbidden Snacc’ Harker, already rolling up his sleeves and opening his shirt collar 0.05 seconds after Helsing and the Suitors turn their backs: You can have little a Jonathan. As a treat. :) 💕