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About
This readalong is created to follow Dracula Daily - a newsletter that sends you emails in real time as events happen within the timeline of the novel Dracula.
Reading Progress
About Dracula Daily
Bram Stoker’s Dracula is an epistolary novel - it’s made up of letters, diaries, telegrams, newspaper clippings - and every part of it has a date. The whole story happens between May 3 and November 7. So: Dracula Daily will post a newsletter each day that something happens to the characters, in the same timeline that it happens to them.
Now you can read the book via email, in small digestible chunks - as it happens to the characters.
Click here to subscribe to the Dracula Daily newsletter.
If you're joining after May 3, don't worry, you can still get the daily posts as they happen, and you can check out the archive to catch up!
Click here to subscribe to the Dracula Daily newsletter.
If you're joining after May 3, don't worry, you can still get the daily posts as they happen, and you can check out the archive to catch up!
How It Works
Forum topics will be created to discuss the emails received.
Further, please refer to the Librarian's Note below to figure out how to mark progression on this edition of Dracula.
Librarian's note: Over the course of this email series, 110 emails are sent. These emails vary in length, but the page count has been calculated based on a rough average of 1 email = 4 pages. Some emails are much shorter than this, some are much longer, but this calculation gives a page number that makes sense with the page numbers of other editions.
Additional Resources
- If you prefer audiobooks or wish to follow along the readalong in audio format, please check out Re: Dracula. This podcast is a full cast audio drama directly inspired from the Dracula Daily newsletter and follows the same schedule.
- The entire novel can be accessed via the The Project Gutenberg eBook of Dracula
FAQs
Please refer here for any questions.
Also, make sure to check out the General Chat forum to discuss your thoughts or to ask any further questions you may have!
Please be respectful and have fun!
Forums
Initial Thoughts and Impressions
Welcome~
Say hello and connect with other readers!
You can also share what most excites you about this readalong, if this is a re-read of Dracula or whether you have participated in Dracula Daily earlier or if this is your first time.
Say hello and connect with other readers!
You can also share what most excites you about this readalong, if this is a re-read of Dracula or whether you have participated in Dracula Daily earlier or if this is your first time.
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Guide to Readalong Forums
Refer here to find the right forum topic:
- spoilers ahead; archive of emails sent will be available here
- Emails From May 3 to May 16
- Emails From May 18 to May 31 - currently live
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General Chat
This is a no-spoiler zone to talk about the book or about the Dracula Daily newsletter.
Please feel free to use this space to ask questions, share general thoughts or to have idle chatter.
Please feel free to use this space to ask questions, share general thoughts or to have idle chatter.
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Favorite Quotes
Share the quotes you found insightful, humorous or profound.
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Discussion Thread - Emails From May 3 to May 16
Share your thoughts on the emails that arrive between May 3rd to May 16th.
Again, the link to subscribe to the Dracula Daily emails is here.
You can follow along via the full cast audio drama Re: Dracula here.
Again, the link to subscribe to the Dracula Daily emails is here.
You can follow along via the full cast audio drama Re: Dracula here.
Archives
If you've missed an email, an archive is available below:
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Discussion Thread - Emails From May 18 to May 31
Share your thoughts and feelings as we hear more from Jonathan Harker~
Recap
The past couple weeks, we saw Jonathan Harker go on a work trip to Transylvania. Despite the locals there advising Jonathan against visiting Count Dracula, he continues on. After an eerie journey, he finally arrives at the Castle, where Dracula greets him and sees to Jonathan's comfort. As the days go by, Jonathan grows uneasy and anxious as he slowly comes to the haunting realization that he is held prisoner in the castle, that the Count is not what he seems, and there seems to be strange beings roaming in the hallways.
Archive
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Discussion Thread - Emails in June
Share your thoughts while we get more updates from Castle Dracula!
Recap
We saw Count Dracula coerce Jonathan to write three letters dated in June, detailing his leaving the castle. Jonathan takes this as a sign of the remaining duration of his lifespan. Miss Lucy is now engaged to Mr. Arthur, and we received our first communications from Dr. Seward, Mr. Quincy, and Mr. Arthur. In the meantime, Jonathan attempted to discreetly transmit some letters, but he was discovered by Dracula. A few mornings later, Jonathan awoke to find that all of his essential belongings for travel have vanished.
Archive
The commentary and email archives from May 3 to May 16 can be accessed here.
The commentary and email archives from May 18 to May 31 can be accessed here.
June 5
June 17
June 18
June 24
June 25
June 29
June 30
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Discussion Thread - Emails in July
Share your thoughts as we dive deeper into Dracula's world~
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