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And they don’t think Dracula or his predatory methods are sexy at all.

Seward and Quincey to be different, faithful, strong men.

They want Jonathan and Mina to build their marriage and resist evil.

Many fans silently long for wholesome, caring, strong, emotive heroes.

They are feeling, not just seeing, parallels.

Stephen had hoped this story could help people discern modern evils.

It’s great now to return to Stephen’s hopes in our October 2020 episode.

And now some readers are discovering the many overt Bible allusions.Ĭhapter 3: Can this help us recover fictional evil?.

For them, Dracula is a predator, not tragic/sexy, and needs to go down.

For them, Jonathan, Lucy, and Mina are thoroughly victims of assault.

And these fans aren’t appreciating any of those changes, and rightfully so.

It also morally compromised the heroes, especially (and grossly) Mina.

That film made Dracula into a sexy and sympathetically tragic villain.

Many movies, like Francis Ford Coppola’s 1992 one, ruined the book.

Stephen has never seen a whole Dracula movie, but has done research.

Maybe even better, they’re catching on that many movies have ruined it.

And finally, they love the caring yet firm heroism of Dr.

(Stoker plays his trio of good men vs.

(Many loved Stoker’s incidental subversion of the “love triangle” trope!).

Seward and laughing with (not at) Quincey Morris.

They’re rooting for Jonathan, falling in love with Lucy, admiring Mina.

Instead, many Dracula readers are humbly entering this Victorian world.

They’re not projecting our own culture’s foolish religions over top of it.

They are not rejecting the world’s creator and abusing it for their ill ends.

Not all young readers appropriate stories as tools for their own tales.Be not dismayed, fans of literature and Truth per a Christian worldview!.Next, we’ll survey some of the fans’ reactions to the book thus far.Ĭhapter 2: How have new fans respected Dracula?.As of this recording, fans are nearing the book’s conclusion, on Nov.Fans are speculating about the book, cheering, grieving, making fan art.In this case, it’s not just a wretched hive of scum, villainy, and pronouns.Kirkland says most traffic comes from Tumblr, doing something right!.The format has reinvigorated the “book club” concept, and Dracula.That way old and new fans can read the book in a new way, and slowly.Fans get the novel, unabridged, but rearranged by day of record entry.Now something caught fire, and his newsletter has over 200,000 readers.The New York Times has a newer story (we found this after we recorded!).A chap called Matt Kirkland rediscovered the book. Stephen is indebted to his wife Lacy for tracking this year’s Dracula fandom.Of course, we’re also exploring Dracula’s castle in our own book quest.Ĭhapter 1: How did #DraculaDaily boost this book?.The author, Bram Stoker himself, at least understood deep gospel ideas.This includes Dracula, a deeply Christian story now over 120 years old.Instead, we base our discernment of horror in the Bible and the gospel.We see horror not as means to be “realistic” or edgy or to “get” legalists.It also follows from our last episode, Do Christians Really Need Horror?.There we focused mostly on Stoker here we focus on new novel readers.This episode is a spiritual sequel to episode 39, with Geoffrey Reiter.David Umstattd, The Pilgrim’s Progress ReloadedĮxplore the complete Podcast Sponsors page.Fitzgerald ( audiobook, ebook, paperback) Mountain Brook Fire, The Tethered World by Heather L.Enclave Publishing: Dream of Kings by Sharon Hinck (Amazon ebook, hardcover, audio CD).

What have they thought about the story? How have they sought to respect the world they’re entering? And after many decades of showing Dracula as a cartoon or tragic figure, how can we better discern this villain and his horror versus the holiness of Christ’s power? Subscribe to Lorehaven This year, over 200,000 readers have been reading Bram Stoker’s original classic novel, cheering its earnestly good heroes who fight this evil vampire’s predations. What music they make! As we continue exploring the Count’s evil castle in this month’s Lorehaven Guild book quest, we plan to peer deeper into this crypt. Listen to them, the new fans of Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula.

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