ICYMI - How a Substack Revived the Dracula Fandom

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🗓️ 11 October 2023

⏱️ 32 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.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Candice Lim.
0:14.6	And I'm Rachel Hampton and you're listening to ICY Mine.
0:18.4	In case you missed it.
0:20.0	Slitz podcast about internet culture.
0:22.9	How are we feeling this post-long weekend work day?
0:27.4	Does the Brits call it a bank holiday weekend?
0:30.8	I'm not gonna lie, I was stressful, babe.
0:32.9	We should probably acknowledge that if you happen to be online
0:36.6	or just paying any attention this weekend,
0:39.1	it might have been a bit stressful.
0:41.5	The news this week was not great.
0:43.5	There are some pretty fucking horrific conflicts
0:46.9	happening right now.
0:48.0	And it's a lot.
0:49.1	It's stressful.
0:50.6	And we're not gonna talk about it on this podcast
0:54.9	because if there's a few things I'm not,
0:57.6	one of them is not a lawyer
0:59.2	and the other one is non-expert in international conflict.
1:02.6	But we are experts in nonsense.
1:05.6	So Candice, I wanted to catch up with you and ask,
1:08.6	how was your weekend?
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