Bram Stoker‘s Dracula is the story of a vampire’s reign of terror in Victorian England, told through letters and diary entries. This blog will post each entry on the day it appears in the book, so readers can experience the story “in real time.” Dracula started on May 3 and ends November 6. Think of it as a new series to follow with your friends now that The Wire is over. Freakonomics readers will notice that this whole terrible adventure is set off by a real-estate agent who helps a lusty Transylvania count buy a house in London. [%comments]
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I’m loving reading it this way. One correction though – He’s not a real-estate agent; he is a lawyer (“solicitor”)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solicitor
Awesome idea. My one gripe with this is the background color and the links on the blog. It just doesn’t fit the mood!
Good catch, Debi. Jonathan Harker is a solicitor, but the reason he travels out to meet Count Dracula is to smooth over a real estate deal. Though Stoker never mentions it, I assume that deal was initially brokered by a real-estate agent. Maybe this calls for a prequel: “Dracula’s Realtor”?
This reminds me of an email mystery I “read” a few years ago. After signing up for it, you received emails for a period of 3 weeks showing the correspondence between the characters in real-time, which allowed you to follow the story. There were also other kinds of online content… the emails would link to websites, etc. It was fun. The story itself was nothing spectacular, but I enjoyed the novelty of the format.
http://emailmystery.com/
The story I read was The Daughters of Freya
I am waiting for the first one to come out over twitter. Not that I am on twitter…but a story that is pushed to you in real time…wakes you up in the middle of the night etc would be cool
A modernized version of Dracula will be tweeted by the characters come May. For more information check out these links:
http://twitter.com/#!/draculabites/characters
http://www.dracula-bites.com/
http://postdracula.wordpress.com/