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It's Tuesday, November 1st, 2020. I'm Jackson Bird today. Why does Dracula still resonate with audiences over a century later? The disease metaphor is one possible reason, but there's another less discussed theory as well. Plus, one team of scientists have detected traces of an ancient ocean on Mars,

and a turkey-flavored beer for your dog to enjoy this Thanksgiving. Here's some cool stuff

for your ride home. Long before this past month of Halloween, Dracula seemed to be having something of a renaissance.

All depictions of it, I suppose, but mostly the original 1897 novel, Dracula by Brom Stoker.

And this was thanks in large part to Dracula Daily, which I mentioned ahead of its second run beginning back in May.

Dracula Daily is a newsletter which sends the unabridged contents of the original novel, which is in the public domain, to subscribers' emails in chunks matching up with the date in which they take place in the novel.

And when the project first ran in 2021, it garnered 1,600 subscribers.

When it ran again this year, it had over 250,000 subscribers,

largely thanks to it taking off on Tumblr, where memes and fan art ran rampant.

The project, as the novel does, will be wrapping up on November 7th.

So if you want to take part, time is almost up.

Of course, you can always catch up by reading the newsletter's archive

or just getting a copy of the book from your local library or bookstore.

But why did Dracula Daily take off so much this year?

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