Do You Wanna See Possibly The Worst Retelling Ever?

Do you wanna see possibly the worst retelling ever?

A copy of Dracula in Love by Karen Essex

You look at the goodreads summary and you think, "Well, that's sort of interesting."

From the shadowy banks of the River Thames to the wild and windswept Yorkshire coast, Dracula's beautiful, eternal muse, Mina-the most famous woman in vampire lore-vividly recounts the joys and terrors of a passionate affair that has linked her and Count Dracula through the centuries, and her rebellion against her own frightening preternatural powers.

Mina's vampire tale is a compelling journey into Victorian England's dimly lit bedrooms, mist-filled cemeteries and terrifying asylum chambers, revealing the dark secrets and mysteries locked within. Time falls away as she confronts perils far beyond mortal comprehension and must finally make the decision she has been avoiding for almost a millennium.

But then you see the inside dust jacket.

And it only gets worse.

Reader, you are about to enter a world that exists simultaneous with your own. But be warned: in its realm, there are no rules, and there is certainly no neat formula to become - or to destroy - one who has risen above the human condition... The truth is, we must fear monsters less and be warier of our own kind.

London, 1890. Mina Murray, the rosy-cheeked, quintessentially pure Victorian heroine, becomes Count Dracula's object of desire. To preserve her chastity, five male "defenders" rush in to rescue her from the vampire's evil cluthes. This is the version of the story we've been told. But now, from Mina's own pen, we discover the story is vastly different when told from the female point of view.

In this captivating, bold act of storytelling, award-winning author Karen Essex breathes startling new life into the characters of Bram Stoker's Dracula, transporting the readers in to the erotic and bizarre underbelly of the original story. While loosely following the events of its classic predecessor, Dracula in Love deviates from the path at every turn. The result is a darkly haunting, propulsive, and rapturous tale of immortal love and possession.

From the shadowy banks of the river Thames to the wild and windswept Yorkshire coast, Dracula's eternal muse - the most famous woman in vampire lore - vividly recounts the joys and terrors of a passionate affair that has linked her and the Count through the centuries, and her rebellion against her own frightening preternatural powers.

Mina's version of this gothic vampire tale is a visceral journal into Victorian England's dimly lit bedrooms, mist-filled cemeteries, and terrifying asylum chambers, revealing the dark secrets and mysteries locked within. Time falls away as she is sweapt into a mythical voyage far beyond mortal comprehension, where she (continued on back flap)

(continued from front flap) must finally make the decision she has been avoiding for almost a millennium.

Stoker's Dracula offered one side of the story, in which Mina was a victim bearing no responsibility for the unfolding events. Now, for the first time, the truth of her secret history, and of vampirism itself, is revealed. What this flesh-and-blood woman has to say is more sensual, more devious, and more enthralling than the Victorians could have expressed or perhaps even imagined.

(Followed by an about the author.)

Is... is this author aware that Dracula DOES have Mina's POV? Like we know what Mina feels about it. We know Mina's perspective. She likes her husband, typewriters, and trains.

Feminist Dracula, y'all.

✨️Jonathan Harker ✨️

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loucifer-777

1 month ago

can we like, have adaptations made by people who care about the thing they're adapting

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loucifer-777

1 month ago

coming out of my cage and i been doing just bad. going back in my cage because i like my cage

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loucifer-777

2 months ago

writing really is just googling synonyms. that's it. just a constant carousel of "I used this word two paragraphs ago, what is another word for this word"

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loucifer-777

1 month ago

I am loving the building excitement in the Dracula Daily fandom...We’re not even halfway through April but people are posting memes and giggling...Jonathan's trip to the Carpathians is almost upon us! It's like Advent for Harker fans.

(Was making a Moon Knight meme and accidentally reset the base image into something infinitely funnier.)

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loucifer-777

3 weeks ago

I'm always shocked when Lucy says that Mina and Seward would make a good couple if it wasn't for Jonathan because........I just cannot see it lol. Not to get into a ship war with Lucy Westenra but......

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loucifer-777

2 weeks ago

New Dracula stage play.

Cynthia Erivo as 23 characters.

Sounds grea--

*sigh*

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loucifer-777

3 weeks ago

Jonathan is like obviously I picked your new house because it was the creepiest, shittiest old place in town and Dracula is like hell yeah brother

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loucifer-777

2 weeks ago

Jonathan on the 12th: This thing isn't human, I just watched him scale the bloody walls like a fucking lizard, what sort of beast am I forced to be in contact with????

Jonathan on the 15th: Saw the old bastard scaling the fucking wall again and honestly fuck this shit I am so over it hope he falls actually.

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