Reading Bram Stoker's Dracula In Real Time

Posted by Queuebot in Blog & Internet, Book & Lit on May 3, 2009 at 6:49 pm


Today marks the first day in the year (May 3rd) of what would be Jonathan Harker’s journal. Dracula Feed has started an experiment of blogging Jonathan’s journal in "real time", publishing each journal entry the day it would have happened.

Experience Bram Stoker’s Dracula in a new way — in real time. Dracula is an epistolary novel (a novel written as a series of letters or diary entries,) and this blog will publish each diary entry on the day that it was written by the narrator so that the audience may experience the drama as the characters would have.

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9 comments to "Reading Bram Stoker's Dracula In Real Time"

  1. Johnny Cat
    May 3rd, 2009 at 7:39 pm

    Interesting, and as long as copyright creeps can't meddle, it's a free copy of Dracula, in a neat way. Copyrights run out after how many years?

  2. Miss Cellania
    May 3rd, 2009 at 8:49 pm

    Dracula was never under copyright in the US. In the UK, it became public domain in 1962. According to Wikipedia.

  3. Johnny Cat
    May 3rd, 2009 at 9:45 pm

    Looks like I'll get to read Dracula, finally. I like it.

  4. smallerdemon
    May 3rd, 2009 at 11:45 pm

    How odd, I was feeling obsessed to watch the 1992 version last night and finishing up watching it today. Maybe this date was somewhere in the back of my head. That and I had been listening to the score all week.

    Dracula has always been a big part of my personal literary tradition and was one of the first pieces of literature that really got me in the library doing a lot of research about writers and folks tales.

  5. Carolina
    May 4th, 2009 at 12:51 am

    This is a wonderful idea, however I just went to read the first installment, and he is presenting it on a black background with white script, which makes it painful, for me anyway, to read. I subbed via rss, and am hoping to read it that way. This is a brilliant idea. I hope others decide to do the same with other books.

  6. Ajan
    May 4th, 2009 at 1:44 am

    Wow.. jus subscribed me too.. Agree with Carolina.. Its hard to read on a black background.. pains a lot..

    @ Miss Cellania
    :) Yea It was on neatorama previously.. :D the author's assistants failed/neglected to do apply for the copyright.. Sad story for their family..

  7. felixthecat
    May 4th, 2009 at 6:05 am

    Maybe some corporation can apply for a retroactive copyright as has happened with other works in some nations. Isn't that what they did with Peter Pan? That way a stranglehold can be placed that will last decades if not centuries. Or, a corporation can claim to have a copyright, demand payments from others, and dare anyone to take them to court and face staggering expenses (I'm thinking about a very popular special occasion song here).

  8. Rich
    May 4th, 2009 at 10:31 am

    Dracula has been available for download on Project Gutenberg for years.

    What a crazy book- all the talk about how to properly kill him, and in the end they (iirc) just cut his head off with a butcher knife.

  9. ted
    May 5th, 2009 at 9:15 am

    Not really an original idea. So many books were originally serials. Charles Dickens comes to mind as a great serial writer. Armistead Maupin is a more recent example.


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