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How a Substack Revived the Dracula Fandom

ICYMI

Slate Podcasts

Entertainment News, News, Tech News, Society & Culture

3.8678 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode, Rachelle Hampton and Candice Lim talk to writer Cyrena Touros about Dracula Daily, a newsletter that emails bite-sized passages from Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel to more than 235,000 readers. As an epistolary novel, Dracula is broken into letters written between May and November. Dracula Daily emails those letters to readers, who have now created a book club-like fandom rife with memes and sidebars about a guy stuck in a vampire’s castle. This podcast is produced by Se’era Spragley Ricks, Daisy Rosario, Candice Lim and Rachelle Hampton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:44.3

And I'm Rachel Hampton, and you're listening to I see why in mine.

0:48.3

In case you missed it.

0:50.3

Slate's podcast about internet culture.

0:52.3

How are we feeling this post-long weekend workday,

0:57.3

as the Brits call it, a bank holiday weekends? Not going to lie, it was stressful, babes.

1:02.9

We should probably acknowledge that if you happen to be, you know, online or just paying any

1:07.8

attention this weekend, it might have been a bit stressful.

1:11.5

The news this week was not great.

1:13.6

There are some pretty fucking horrific conflicts happening right now.

1:18.0

And it's a lot.

1:19.1

It's stressful.

1:20.5

And we're not going to talk about it on this podcast because if there's a few things I'm not, one of them is not a lawyer and the

1:29.6

other one is not an expert in international conflict. But we are experts in nonsense. So, Candice,

1:37.1

I wanted to catch up with you and ask, how was your weekend? What'd you get up to? What'd you

1:40.8

watch that wasn't your Instagram feed? Yeah, I watched two movies. One's

1:46.4

an oldie, one's a newbie. The first one is overboard. It's that movie with Anna Farris and

1:51.3

Eugenio Derbez. And it's like a reboot of the Goldie Hawn Kurt Russell one. Basically, Eugenio de

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