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#WyrdWednesday Hearing wolves howling hauntingly in the deep Transylvanian forest, Count Dracula likens their wailing to song, much to Jonathan Harker’s horror: ‘Listen to them—the children of the night. What music they make!’ (Bram Stoker, ‘Dracula’)

🖼 Abigail Larson

Unpopular opinion, maybe, but I think Bram Stoker is at his most Gothic not in Dracula but in The Shadow Builder in Under the Sunset (1881). Here’s an illustration by W. Fitzgerald for the short story.

#WyrdWednesday In Bram Stoker’s Dracula, natural folk magic is used to fight the vampire: the mountain ash, the garlic, and the wild rose are equally powerful weapons against evil, and magic, religion, medicine, and technology are all brought together.

🖼 Abigail Larson

#BookWormSat ‘I had a dream of something black coming round my bed, and I awoke in a perfect horror, and I really thought, for some seconds, I saw a dark figure near the chimney-piece’ JS Le Fanu, Carmilla

🖼 IrenHorrors

#WyrdWednesday In Stoker’s Dracula, Mina breaks many conventions, using the tools of modern science & technology to fight the vampire. She is the one who bids Van Helsing to use hypnosis on her, perceiving that it can help locate the Count through their psychic connection.

#bookwormsat

‘Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore—
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!”
            Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”’ (Edgar Allan Poe)

🖼 Gustave Doré

#BookWormSat ‘sometimes the playful, languid, beautiful girl; sometimes the writhing fiend I saw in the ruined church; and often from a reverie I have started, fancying I heard the light step of Carmilla at the drawing room door.’

JS Le Fanu, ‘Carmilla’

#WyrdWednesday In Arthur Machen’s novella ‘The Great God Pan’, a doctor performs experimental brain surgery on his patient, Mary, inducing a spiritual experience described as ‘seeing the great god Pan’, and which instantiates a monstrous. reversal of the Incarnation.

#FaustianFriday The dark neoclassical band Nox Arcana experimented with setting parts of Bram Stoker’s Dracula to music in their album Transylvania. In ‘The Howling’, the Count’s famous lines are uttered: ‘Listen to them,the children of the night. What music they make.’

#WyrdWednesday In JS Le Fanu’s ‘Carmilla’, Laura falls for the mysterious and beautiful Carmilla. It is revealed however that her beauty is misleading, as the elusive lady turns out to be a vampire, feeding on Laura’s blood. Carmilla is found floating in a coffin full of blood.