ICYMI: How a Substack Revived the Dracula Fandom

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4.6 • 636 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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0:00.0	Do people love the Vauxhall Corsa as much as we do?
0:03.0	Yes, of Coursa.
0:05.0	Don't just take our word for it.
0:07.0	Here's what Julie had to say in her FIFO review.
0:09.0	I love the style and colour too.
0:11.0	Very pleased and telling everybody about it.
0:14.0	Join Julie and discover why the Vauxal Corsa is the UK's best-selling small card today.
0:19.0	Visit your local Vauxhall retailer to book your test drive or search Courser now.
0:24.4	For best-selling claim verification, visit voxel.com.com. Hey, I'm Candace Lim.
0:44.3	And I'm Rachel Hampton, and you're listening to I see why I'm mine.
0:48.1	In case you missed it.
0:49.9	Slate's podcast about internet culture.
0:52.2	How are we feeling this post-long weekend workday,
0:57.0	as the Brits call it, a bank holiday weekends? Not going to lie, it was stressful, babes. We should
1:03.2	probably acknowledge that if you happen to be, you know, online or just paying any attention
1:07.9	this weekend, it might have been a bit stressful.
1:11.3	The news this week was not great.
1:13.1	There are some pretty fucking horrific conflicts happening right now, and it's a lot.
1:18.9	It's stressful.
1:20.4	And we're not going to talk about it on this podcast, because if there's a few things I'm not,
1:27.4	one of them is not a lawyer and the other
1:29.5	one is not an expert in international conflict. But we are experts in nonsense. So, Candice, I wanted to
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