Jodie Ramodien

written in letter forms and then everything is dated yeah they will send you the like segment from each date on that date so it starts in may and ends in like november or something like that extremely fun experimental way of reading dracula i love that though and what a like bite-sized way to and then because also like enough time has passed you've maybe like forgotten pieces and the passage of time feels so real wow yeah so the novel starts in may when does it end

Well, there is this period towards the end of the narrative where they're just travelling to go stay at Dracula.

And you just get days, like, over this month.

Like, when you're experiencing it, like, on the days that it was written, you just get days where you're, again, getting an email and it's like,

We were traveling.

Yeah, you really get a sense of how fast we live our lives now compared to back then because you couldn't even slay a monster efficiently.

I never thought of that as being reflected in the way that we watch horror currently.

And I feel like both in the novel and in the horror movies that we watch today, it builds suspense really well.

And also it kind of makes you feel like you're like, I don't know, a librarian in an archive or something and you're like finding this out for real.

So it's like that extra bit of scary because it feels like you're just one step closer to...

the freaky thing at the central fiddle.

Well, to be really uneducated and bring it to extreme modern publishing, I really enjoyed Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Fairies recently.

Love a good fairy.

And that's also a story.

So she's, like, writing in her journal and recounting events as they happen.

There's a lot of mystery, like, novels that I do not enjoy because it feels –

almost like you're being taken a step away from the action sometimes.

And so to bridge that gap is a feat for an author.

And it does feel successful.

And I think Dracula does feel successful with that as well.