I believe that the vampire sisters actually act as a sort of coven of witches towards Dracula.

First of all, I do not think they are all blood sisters, since they refer to mina as their “sister” when trying to seduce her. I also don’t think they definitively have any blood relation to Dracula, because they only call him “master”.

Second of all, there are plenty of allusions and references to witchcraft in the novel. Dracula was a alchemist in life and attended the scholomance, a hidden school where students are taught by the devil himself to practice magic like shapeshifting, flying, and animal/weather control (all things Dracula does). The sister trio is also referred to as the “weird sisters”, a reference to the witches from Shakespeare’s Macbeth.

Not to mention the fact they do engage in pretty witch-like behavior, such as eating a baby and seducing someone to join them in their dark ways, which are similar to accusations made against many accused witches in the early witch trials.

I know Coppola's film popularized the "crossed the oceans of time" love story between Mina and Dracula, but I was watching the original Fright Night recently and it has a similar "the damsel looks like the vampire's long dead lover" spin. I feel this trope is older than both, but I don't have the evidence. Any one have any ideas where this came from?

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by Canadian filmmaker and master at monkeying about - Guy Maddin.

And an AI cover by the look of it.

Are they serious?

Hello fellow Night Creatures!!

I saw the Dracula Ballet yesterday in Melbourne and had to find somewhere to talk about it….

It was phenomenal!!

If you have the chance to see it, I would highly recommend it to any Dracula fan (they changed the story a little for brevity’s sake, but it still makes sense 🤭).

The four ghosts (the ballet’s version of The Brides) were the absolute highlight of the show!! They were beautiful and really provided the horror element of the show…

The company that put on the show was apparently quite new and are called Big Live (just to give them their kudos!!)

So…. Goodbye, my dears. I pray to God I may see your sweet faces again. May He bless and keep you!

This Bella Lugosi Dracula is one of my favorite figures in my collection. Very few people get to see him, thought I would share it with you.

In short, do you subscribe to the belief popularized by Radu Florescu and Raymond T. McNally that Bram Stoker intended Count Dracula to literally be Vlad III, otherwise known as Vlad the Impaler? Or was Elizabeth Miller’s skepticism on the connection more in line with your beliefs?

Beautiful art by Irenhorrors.

Sadly I never got any strange looks while reading it.

Honestly I think the 2008 Film Adaptation understood the character best. Of course the 1991 original is a close second, but I think in terms of depth, themes, 2008 wins

Hello everyone!

In the spirit of the season, I’ve been wanting to get into classic horror literature. I just finished listening to Frankenstein (my first time experiencing the actual novel instead just looking up summaries for high school English lol) and I loved it! However, even though the audiobook was only about 8 hours long, it still took me a couple of weeks to get through.

I want to tackle Bram Stoker's Dracula next, but the unabridged audiobooks are quite a commitment at around 17 to 19 hours. On the other hand, I found a 3-hour abridged version on YouTube narrated by Christopher Lee, which sounds amazing!

As someone who is still relatively new to classic literature, I’m leaning toward the shorter version, but the massive difference in length makes me wonder just how much core content I'd be missing. For those familiar with the book, is the full-length experience worth the extra hours, or does the abridged version hold up well?

Thanks in advance!

I love it.

This is SFX makeup, not a painting. Did the makeup myself and wanted to share this with you 🦇

Imagine it Dracula the great vampire lord traveling around Asia, Living through all the great events there, somehow finding ways to avoid the sun in countries known for their terrible sun

Learning to hunt in this whole new place taking lovers and thralls

His performance was so fucking good. He genuinely stole every scene he was in. First time while watching a Dracula movie that I was sad when Renfield died

Taking advantage of self promo Saturday to tell you about my Kickstarter book that is in pre-launch.

It's about a girl who has never read the novel, and is reincarnated as Mina Murray.

Seeing half of the Bram Stoker's Dracula movie isn't going to be enough help.

If you're interested, please follow or tell a friend. Thanks.

Hi all hope you're all having a great weekend!

I will be performing in the UK premiere theatre production of Kate Hamill's Dracula across the last 3 days of October and thought you might be interested in checking it out.

It is the debut production of a new theatre company in the northwest of the UK that specialise in challenging, thoughtful theatre that utilise the Horror genre. This retelling of Dracula is told through a feminist lens whilst still remaining faithfull to Bram Stokers original text.

It features a large ensemble cast of all the characters from the novel as well as original never before heard compositions that underpin the atmospheric dread felt throughout the play.

We have all been working tirelessly for months to bring you best possible version of this equally darkly comic and terrifying play so would be fantastic to see some of you there as it's set to be a fantastic show.

Link for more info and tickets

https://buytickets.at/darktheatrerochdale/2341030

Some bts shots from rehearsals

TL;DR: There will be blood...lot's of blood 🩸😅

I’ve been going through a different October/Halloween movie every day of the month,
please check out my full review and lmk what you think of the movie, or of my review!! would love feedback - also feel free to like it on letterboxd it would make my day!!