Dracula was written in a form called the epistolary novel, where the prose is presented as a series of documents. These documents are all date stamped, and so Dracula1897 used these stamps to separate out the novel into a sort of serial, making semi-daily* posts following the chronology of the story** spanning the six month period in which the book takes place.
I will once again be reproducing this experience (in my own way) here over the next six months.
Expect the first story post May 2nd 2023.
There is an associated Facebook page and Twitter feed which are to have automated links to the posts and the RSS of the blog is linked on the right side of the page. It always takes a few posts to knock the rust off the automation so if there are issues please bear with me.
There is also a Facebook group to discuss and handle administrative questions.
To my dismay, I only caught the very tail end of the Dracula1897 run and they have not done it again since. In 2009 Dracula-Feed ran the novel here on Blogger in the same way, but I was not aware of this until well afterward. I decided that rather than wait for someone else to do this again I would do it myself, but of course, came to this conclusion at precisely the wrong time of year as the book starts in May and ends in November so I ran it exactly six months off as Dracula on the Off Season. The most recent run is still up on that page and should give you an idea of what you would be seeing over the next six months. I've tripped over a few other presentations in the meantime, but for better or worse this one is mine.
I started my first offseason run-through in November 2010 and tried for a second offseason run in November 2012.
Ultimately I hated the formatting of the Project Gutenberg text I was working from and never felt happy with the final presentation, so I overhauled the whole thing using a new copy of the text for the additional offseason and real-time runs in 2016, 2019, and 2020.
There may be occasional non-story Admin. posts from me but I will do all I can to keep them at a minimum. Please feel free to let me know at any time if you have any ideas that you think will help enhance the experience and by all means, pass the word along.
I do not ask for or make money off of this project. Any ads you see have been inserted by the platform, not me.
If you want to see the rest of what I do with my spare time check out my Instagram the_itsybitsy.
The Project Gutenberg copy of Dracula is available here.
* the chronology is not completely regular, some days have no posts, some have multiple.
** the chronology is also not completely linear, a few items are presented out of order according to how they appear in the text. these will be noted by an "out of order" tag
