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brightknightie) wrote2022-12-25 07:27 pm
brightknightie) wrote2022-12-25 07:27 pm
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Yuletide Dracula (original novel) stories '22
Interesting how many -- nine, and none are crossovers -- Yuletide stories we have this year for the original Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897 novel). See the list. I wonder what inspired the cluster. Maybe the second round of "Dracula Daily"? Or Red's dramatic reading charity fundraiser on OSP?
I haven't read any of these stories yet, but the tag "Crew of Light Doing Crew of Light Things" certainly has my attention. I enjoy that the good guys in Dracula are canonically really ... well, good!
(And we seem to have more than the usual Yuletide servings of nineteenth-century literature all around. Possibly folks washing away the lingering taste of that Persuasion debacle earlier this year?)
I haven't read any of these stories yet, but the tag "Crew of Light Doing Crew of Light Things" certainly has my attention. I enjoy that the good guys in Dracula are canonically really ... well, good!
(And we seem to have more than the usual Yuletide servings of nineteenth-century literature all around. Possibly folks washing away the lingering taste of that Persuasion debacle earlier this year?)
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Three cheers for more folks reading (or listening to) the original text. I have a stash of literary criticism opinions about it (imperialism, prejudice, repression, gender, etc.), but I also have squeeing fangirl affection for the text exactly as Stoker believed he meant it to be. I imagine how downright terrifying it must have been, reading it when it was first published, and you don't know any of these tropes because they aren't yet tropes.