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Introducing ICYMI: "How a Substack Revived the Dracula Fandom"

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Reddit, Technology

4.22.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

This episode is brought to you by Slate's ICYMI podcast.

Co-hosts 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.

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0:00.0

Hey Endless Thread Homeys, it's Ben Brock Johnson. Hope you're doing well. If you, like us, are in the midst of a serious Halloween hangover, eating all the candies, or in my case stealing candy from my children.

0:15.3

We've got a bit of a Halloween hangover episode for you.

0:19.5

It comes from IcyYM I, The Slate Podcast, which is made by Rachel Hampton and Candice Lim, who

0:27.1

who-Woo-Wo-Wo-Wom!

0:28.0

Former Endless Thread Intern who has gone on to do bigger and better things as a co-host of this show.

0:35.6

And yeah, we're excited to introduce this show to you.

0:39.4

It is an episode today about the Return of vampire fandom via internet communities.

0:47.0

Also a show that I love from Netflix, Transylvania, gets a shout out.

0:52.0

We think you'll like this show. We hope you'll listen and check it out. We'll see you

0:58.7

next week. You're going to I see why am I in case you missed it

1:25.2

Slate's Podcast about Internet Culture. How are we feeling this post long weekend work day as the Brits call it a bank holizai weekends

1:35.6

not gonna lie it was stressful babes we should probably acknowledge that if you happen

1:40.8

to be you know online or just paying any attention this weekend,

1:44.7

it might have been a bit stressful.

1:47.2

The news this week was not great.

1:49.2

There are some pretty fucking horrific conflicts happening right now and it's a lot it's stressful and

1:56.8

we're not gonna 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 other one is not an expert in international conflict but we are experts in nonsense

2:11.0

so Candice I wanted to catch up with you and ask, how is your weekend?

2:15.2

What'd you get up to? What'd you watch that wasn't your Instagram feed?

2:18.4

Yeah, I watched two movies. One's an oldie, one's a newbie. The first one is overboard. It's that movie with

2:26.0

Anna Ferris and Eugenio Derbez and it's like a reboot of the Goldie Hon. Kurt Russell one,

2:32.1

basically Eugenio de Be plays like this billionaire on a yacht.

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