Topic: Have you read the original Dracula novel?

[Fofa]

I've read the original once when I was 12, then again when I was 15.

When you were 12? That reminds me of one time I was at a major bookstore chain and I saw Dracula in the kids' section, and I was just thinking, "What?" (Because decapitation is so appropriate for a kids' book.)

[TheFly22284]

I read it for the first time in 9th grade and used to read it every Halloween. I'm now in an English PhD program, largely because of the book, and have managed to write about it in my undergraduate classes, my Master's Degree classes, and in my PhD classes. It's a deeply flawed book, but I love it dearly. It's sort of the outlier on my qualifying exam list; alongside Ulysses, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Mrs. Dalloway it seems "under-literary," but it really captures the anxiety of modernity and the weird hybrid space of the Anglo-Irish in the late British empire.

[Ratty]

It's a deeply flawed book, but I love it dearly. It's sort of the outlier on my qualifying exam list; alongside Ulysses, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Mrs. Dalloway it seems "under-literary," but it really captures the anxiety of modernity and the weird hybrid space of the Anglo-Irish in the late British empire.

Indeed, excellent way of putting it. Grats on going so far in your education for a subject you're passionate about. I like that you seem to understand that while it may be "under-literary" like so many other works the proof is in the pudding as far as it's influence/literary importance. Might I suggest the works of H.P. Lovecraft if you're not already familiar with them?* The xenophobia present in his work is something of a magnification of the prejudices the old families in New England felt at the 20th century's new wave of immigrants, and his rather small output is extremely influential in the world of horror and science fiction to this day. He was the one who really got the ball rolling on combining the two one might say, with the Cthulhu mythos he started.

*Though doubtless you've at least heard of them.

When you were 12? That reminds me of one time I was at a major bookstore chain and I saw Dracula in the kids' section, and I was just thinking, "What?" (Because decapitation is so appropriate for a kids' book.)

Actually I think that's around how old I was when I first read it.

[Omegasigma]

The Ultimate Dracula, Has several great short stories, one of the best would have to be when Beli Legosi meets Vlad Tepes Dracula, the two have an odd encounter and both learn from each other, another is Dracula 1944, set after the events of the novel, it tells that the novel was really a chronicle of Dracula's exploits, but he didnt die, he left his castle, and began travelling, long story short, he ends up in a Nazi Camp, where the story takes place.