Uncover the myth that is Count Dracula alongside Jonathan Harker, Mina Harker (nee Murray), Lucy Westenra, Dr. John Seward, Quincey Morris, Arthur Holmwood, and Professor Abraham Van Helsing. There’s more to the story than Count Dracula and vampirism. Audiences can follow the unwilling crew through diaries, journals, telegrams, and newspaper articles as their lives are upended by the Undead. Slow-paced with unknown danger waiting to be revealed around every corner, Dracula is like reading letters from a close friend who has no way of listening to your warnings
Discussion
Dracula is a classic of the horror genre. Horror novels evoke emotional, psychological, or physical responses and what heightens those responses with this novel are the elements of suspense. The dread that comes from knowing something the characters don’t, but remaining unsure how the characters will get through the experience or even if they will survive the experience makes Dracula heart-pounding.
That apprehension – knowing something bad is going to happen to the characters that the characters themselves don’t know yet – is a draw of the genre.
Horror can be more than experiencing fear, it’s everything that is tied up with fear. Dread, disgust, tension, anticipation. Everything needs to be experienced and horror is a safe way to do that.
A digitally accessible version for modern audiences has been imagined by Matt Kirkland through Dracula Daily. Subscribers can get the entirety of Dracula emailed to them on the days that the events happen. Get letters from Jonathan in real time and experience Dracula every year.
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