Lynnie 
fiction, horror, fantasy
I originally read Bram Stoker's Dracula in high school and I
remember both enjoying it and being terrified. I generally don't read or
watch a lot of horror, and was familiar enough with the story that I
thought it wouldn't be too bad - and I was right. I think that Dracula
is more suspenseful and psychologically scary than bloody, slasher
horror (thank goodness!).
Dracula is an epistolary novel, which means that it is told through a series of diary entries and notes. I learned from a friend that the Dracula Daily substack would be sending out an email each day with that day's events from Dracula, essentially telling the story in real time from May 3 through November 7 and I was instantly eager to join in. Dracula was not a book I would have reread in ordinary circumstances, but breaking it down in this way allowed me to add it to my current reading list while continuing to read other books. I loved the experience!
And I enjoyed experiencing Dracula day by day and thinking about how the characters were going about the time between scenes, building tension. Some days there was only a small diary entry that took five minutes to read, other days there were several entries. But spread out, I definitely took more time to think about the story and the characters in a way I hadn't when I was younger.
I recommend rereading Dracula if it's been a while for you, or reading it for the first time if you haven't. And I definitely recommend checking out Dracula Daily if you want to break up the experience into smaller digestible chunks.
Dracula is an epistolary novel, which means that it is told through a series of diary entries and notes. I learned from a friend that the Dracula Daily substack would be sending out an email each day with that day's events from Dracula, essentially telling the story in real time from May 3 through November 7 and I was instantly eager to join in. Dracula was not a book I would have reread in ordinary circumstances, but breaking it down in this way allowed me to add it to my current reading list while continuing to read other books. I loved the experience!
And I enjoyed experiencing Dracula day by day and thinking about how the characters were going about the time between scenes, building tension. Some days there was only a small diary entry that took five minutes to read, other days there were several entries. But spread out, I definitely took more time to think about the story and the characters in a way I hadn't when I was younger.
I recommend rereading Dracula if it's been a while for you, or reading it for the first time if you haven't. And I definitely recommend checking out Dracula Daily if you want to break up the experience into smaller digestible chunks.
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