We seem to be drifting into unknown places and unknown ways; into a whole world of dark and dreadful things.
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βHe is finite, though he is powerful to do much harm and suffers not as we do. But we are strong, each in our purpose; and we are all more strong together.β
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βWe are trying to do our duty in a very sad and terrible case; we can only do as we deem best. What else have we to hope for, except the pity of the good God?β
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Pictured is the book Dracula Daily resting on a brick walk with a bunch of garlic resting on its open pages.
The banner for "Looking Back on Genre History with Amy H. Sturgis on StarShipSofa" with retrofuturist artwork showing a rocket in space.
Happy October! π On my latest βLooking Back on Genre Historyβ segment on the #StarShipSofa podcast (Episode 766), I praise the #Dracula "group read" experience. π¦ #DailyDracula #ReDracula #BramStoker #Gothic #Books #Bookstodon #SFF
Here is the link [β¦]
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Mina the train fiend, my beloved! #redracula
That night that Lucyβs mother died is terrifying - all the coincidences and mistakes meaning Lucy is left alone, her mother scared to death in her arms, the relentless attack on the home, Lucy knowing she is alone and unprotected and that HE is coming #redracula
βOh, how we are beset! How are all the powers of the devils against us!β Suddenly he jumped to his feet. βCome,β he said, βcome, we must see and act. Devils or no devils, or all the devils at once, it matters not; we fight him all the same.β
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βNo trifling with me. I never jest. There is grim purpose in all I do, and I warn you that you do not swat me.β
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"Afraid to go to sleep! Why so? It is the boon we all crave for."
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βIt was a shock to me to turn from the wonderful smoky beauty of a sunset over London, with its lurid lights and inky shadows and all the marvellous tints that come on foul clouds even as on foul water, and to realise all the grim sternness of my own cold stone building, with its wealth of [β¦]
Iβve been waiting for you, #VanHelsing!
βHe is a philosopher and a metaphysician, and one of the most advanced scientists of his day, and he has, I believe, an absolutely open mind. This, with an iron nerve, a temper of the ice-brook, and indomitable resolution, self-command, and toleration [β¦]
Iβve been waiting for you, #VanHelsing!
βHe is a seemingly arbitrary man, this is because he knows what he is talking about better than anyone else. He is a philosopher and a metaphysician, and one of the most advanced scientists of his day, and he has, I believe, an absolutely open mind. This [β¦]
Isabel Adomakoh Young really is the perfect Mina - one of my absolute favourite heroines in all literature, let alone horror stories and so very rarely portrayed as she is the book. This Mina feels like the one I imagine #redracula
Always a bit disturbed by Dr Seward coming very close to collaborating with Renfield rather than trying to stop him, in the name of science. A touch of Frankenstein thereβ¦
#redracula
The Demeter bit is like this entire different story that takes place on the middle of Dracula and I have always loved it - the horror of this monster in this ship no can leave, the Captain coming to believe and then trying to try to stop it - and yet he canβt. #redracula
βWe seem to be drifting to some terrible doom.β
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βThere seems to be some doom over this ship.β
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βNo man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and how dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.β
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βWhat shall I do? what can I do? How can I escape from this dreadful thing of night and gloom and fear?β
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βDespair has its own calms.β
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βI am surely in the toils.β
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Todayβs #DraculaDaily reading includes one of my favorite quotes from the novel:
βIt is nineteenth century up-to-date with a vengeance. And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere βmodernityβ cannot kill.β
#Dracula #BramStoker [β¦]
βI start at my own shadow, and am full of all sorts of horrible imaginings. God knows that there is ground for my terrible fear in this accursed place!β
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ββ¦the walls of my castle are broken, the shadows are many, and the wind breathes cold through the broken battlements and casements. I love the shade and the shadow, and would be alone with my thoughts when I may.β
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βI am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.β
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Pictured is a jar of paprika on a stone table against the backdrop of a flowering bush. The reference is to Jonathan Harkerβs discovery of his taste for paprika in the opening of the novel Dracula.
And so it begins.
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Pictured is the book Dracula Daily, open to its title page, with garlic stacked on top of it.
One day more.
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A dramatic reenactment of me at my literal workplace yesterday. KARIM. SIR (an all time drac tho truly). #dracula #redracula