Part 2: here the unknown author has changed the names a bit from the originals. But he has kept Arthur Holmwood, son of Lord Godalming. So curious, to what end?
Here‘s who‘s who so far in order of appearance:
Jonathan Harker is Tom Harker
Dracula is Draculitz
Mina Murray is Wilma Murray
Lucy Westernra is Lucy Western
& many new characters
But
Arthur Holmwood is Arthur Holmwood
Trying not to peak ahead to see if Van Helsing is Van Helsing.
Almost 300 pages into this chunkster I‘m finally at Part Two!
Well, well, well there‘s an evil magic ring in this Swedish version of Dracula. A ruby ring.
Could this 1899-1900 version have any influence on Tolkien? Did Tolkien read Swedish? He was a language genius, so maybe.
This is how far I am in this chunkster of a book. I‘m still at it. Because the book is so valuable it doesn‘t go on work trips. And it‘s not broken into chapters but only into 3
Parts, I have to find loads of time to sit down with it. So I may be reading about Count Draculitz through Christmas at this rate!!
panI hate read #DraculaDaily though not daily because I would give up again. I'm rating this purely as a reading experience.
Some parts of this were good, some were horrendous, and others were boring.
Silent vampire classic with a small orchestra was an eerie & fun Halloween treat. The skilled silent filmmakers ripped off Stoker back in the day, but it made my husband want to read Stoker's classic, which he's seen me read twice. #film #vampire #Dracula
#threelistthursday #tlt
I‘m surprised I got SEVEN on this list, as someone who‘s really not into scary/creepy/horror! The three on the left are favorites from this list (although I was surprised to see Name of the Rose on there!). The three on the right I‘ve read the book and watched one or more movie adaptations. With Dracula and The Dead Zone, I enjoyed the book more, but Hitchcock‘s Rebecca tops both the book & the recent movie version for me!
“Vampires, the whole lot of them,” Vambéry says. “They are rising from their graves.”
