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Classic Cast: Dracula (Patreon)

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2025-03-26 15:45:58
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2025-04-30 15:34:56
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We've combined our four episodes on Bram Stoker's Dracula into one FREE epic listen, brought to you by please subscribe to our Patreon!

That opening Castlevania riff was rocked by Erik Peabody of Viking Guitar Productions!

Special thanks once again to Ken Hite, John Reppion, Andrew Leman and Rachel Lackey!

Links to the original eps with show notes from ten years ago:

Dracula - Part 1

Dracula - Part 2

Dracula - Part 3

Dracula - Part 4

Comments

Pete Williams

This reminded me of the recent adaptation of Salem's Lot. I thought it was fine, neither especially good or bad, but I was very happy with how quickly the characters were on board with it being draculas.

Kyle Griffiths

This might be my third or first listen to this series of episodes and it’s still delightful and insightful.

John Bladek

Four episodes of Dracula! Fracula! Also a swear word from Battlestar Galactica.

Gregg X

Jeez, this was ten years ago already. I'm at the age where everything makes me feel old.

Viking Guitar

I am so frequently intimidated by Ken's extensive knowledge of literature that I took a small, perverse pleasure in hearing him say that 'Salem's Lot took place in New Hampshire.

Wulf Mungus

Love the Heavy Metal cover of a Castlevania track... Plus I forgot this was another fun conversation with Ken

Pete Williams

I can't quite believe the original run of these was ten years ago.

Nancy Black

Awesome! I’m currently re-reading Dracula so perfect timing.

Eric - Speaker in Digressions

This is great! Handy one-stop shopping for the next time I listen to this again--which I do every fall when I teach my Monster Lit course! I'm always thinking about Dracula's chicken.

cthulhusdream

Hahaha love that Nosferatu chicken bit

Professor Murder

Great to listen to this classic series once again. Two random thoughts: 1) You almost make it sound like an anti-vaxxer Van Helsing is going to start insisting that you might catch Vampirism off a toilet seat. 2) "Well Arthur, since you would definitely be the most traumatized, it's up to you to decapitate your fiancé. Here. Take this sharpened shovel."

Richard Horsman

Wow, ten years of remembering the “mmmmmmmmmMUTTONCHOPS” bit at random moments.

Derek Scott

Where are the “Dracula’s Chicken” recipes? You’ve had enough time at this point to hunt down the family recipe.

Avlin Starfall

I love these episodes. I listen to them. Every October.

James Anthony

Listening to this again, and having just watched Last Voyage of the Demeter, I'd love for y'all to do an episode on that movie.

Our old pal Brendan Gardiner

The mention of the prophylactic use of the consecrated communion hosts to restrict Lucy reminds me of my initial reading of Dracula as an adult and how distracted I was at the extent to which the story leans on everyone, including Dracula, and I guess the reader too, being invested in the legitimacy and efficacy of Catholic dogma and trappings. As a Catholic youth, I fully accepted stories that trafficked in this sort of thing, like The Exorcist, taking it as natural that a battle against evil should be fought with the holiest of holy weapons, crucifixes and holy water and such other things native to Catholicism. Having lost that perspective in my adulthood, I’m left to wonder if this story works only within that binary of evil incarnate being opposed by Original Recipe Christianity, or if there is room for a more expansive reading where these tools work because of the intention and sincerity of the welder of them, apart from some innate power they have? How does one negotiate with this story on its own terms without adopting the worldview of a believer?

Our old pal Brendan Gardiner

So this will be comment number two from me on this show from a religious perspective, but bear with me. A biblical scholar I follow online recently shared some insights about how the god of the Jews was regarded early on as territorial, the limits of his power ending at the boundaries of the land of Israel, where the authority of a neighboring god would pick up. One workaround for a person called Naaman who was going to relocate to Babylon was to bring several casks of soil from home so he would maintain access to his god. This is not something I ever knew about, but I’m wondering if Stoker had a working biblical literacy, as many people did back then, and drew on this concept as a basis for Dracula’s need for home soil.

Tara Murphy

I forgot about all the sexy moaning in the outro music from back then.

Robby H.

I always wanted to comment this whenever I register to these episodes, but keep forgetting: Chad was wondering about how Dracula had a beard in England - was it a disguise or was it clenched teeth and hair grows out. I think that since hair cells are dead cells, Dracula may have some control over his dead cells of his body

James Anthony

It's weird how with some stories you find more on every telling. This read through it occurred to me that perhaps Dracula's weakness to the symbols of the Christian church is because the source of his power is from its antithesis, he was trained by the Christian Devil after all. That got me imagining a Van Helsing stand-in who, having spent decades fighting vampires from the Scholomance, finds himself on the trail of a vampire raised by other means who, consequently, doesn't share that weakness and is perhaps even confused about the strange man waving a lowercase letter T and flatbread at him.

Grackles

“The Sun Comes Up Over the Asylum” is a great name for a band.

Richard Upton Sinclair Lewis Pickman

I did go back to listen to this AGAIN but I wanted to share that I just found out about The Powers of Darkness, a ‘lost,’ or maybe more accurately, until recently not translated, version of Dracula, originally published in Swedish and Icelandic, which is very, very different! There is also a podcast out now on the controversy around the translation into English and some hypotheses about its origins… including that Stoker may have orchestrated the alternate version. I really want to read it.