Lit Witches: A Fantasy Book Podcast
Fantasy Classics Book Club: Dracula and its impact on modern day vampire lit
22 Jun 2026
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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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There are these adaptations where Mina is like a reincarnation of Dracula's old wife or ex-lover or whatever.
Okay, so that's happened more than once.
It's happened way more than once. Interesting. Yeah, and I think it's just really interesting that readers and then moviegoers have latched onto this idea that there's something more in that relationship and that's something that they want to explore. And then I think that leads us on the pathway to where we are now where we're like vampire, sexy, love intro. There's tension there.
This is the pipeline.
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Chapter 2: What is the significance of Dracula in vampire literature?
Hello and a very warm welcome to Lit Witches, the podcast for fantasy readers, writers and all things in between. I'm your host Adelaide Jensen and today I'm joined by Talia Moodley and Jodie Ramadine. Welcome. Hello. I should say welcome back to the podcast you two. Are you excited to be back? Second time around.
Yeah, I'm nervous that you're going to eat me alive, but other than that, yeah.
Is this what happened last time is that you were just so terrified?
That's what it felt like.
Okay, good. On today's roundtable episode, we'll be talking about vampires and the role they've played in fantasy from Dracula to Vampire Academy and Twilight. We'll be looking specifically at the true vampire classic Dracula by Bram Stoker and seeing how things have changed or not when it comes to vampire portrayals in our current fantasy landscape. All right.
We're going to start this week a little bit differently. Can you give me your hot recommendation? What book are you looking forward to?
Me first. I would recommend Bloodlines by Rochelle Mead. The reason I recommend it is because I feel like Vampire Academy most people already know about and the side series people maybe haven't read. And it's based on the better character in the love triangle.
No, wrong.
And that's the definitive, like, yeah. So you'd say that that series is better than Vampire Academy? Um... Like one, what's the saying? One could walk so the other ran. What's the saying? Yeah.
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Chapter 3: How have vampire tropes evolved from Dracula to modern stories?
I just wasted my money, but I had already thrown the receipt away.
Oh, my God.
So it sat. In my cupboard for ages and then I would like periodically try again and each time get a little bit further or sometimes like go to a different point in the book and start from there. So I have a very fraught relationship with Dracula.
You do. Can I ask, was this prescribed by school or you just were like?
No, I was like I love vampires. I love Vampire Academy. Like.
It's basically the same thing.
Yeah. Dracula, Dimitri, it's all the same. It's all the same. When did you finally finish it? Um, my first full read through from start to finish, I think was maybe towards the end of high school, or maybe it was early uni, something like that.
We're talking about five, six year scope of a really fraught book relationship.
And then I read it again last year through a sub stack called Dracula Daily, where they, because you know how it's,
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Chapter 4: What are some personal experiences with reading Dracula?
Oh, no. Oh, no. Look, I was doing my research for this show. Did I read Dracula again? No. But what did I read? Vampire Academy. For the first time? Yes. Wow. Let me tell you, with a frontal lobe.
We work at Penguin.
I know that. Who publishes Vampire Academy. I'm aware of that and I'm going to tell you guys. It was firing.
It was like back in the day. It was incredible.
No. Oh. No. Not for me.
Only in my memory.
It was just good stuff. That girl is just annoying. Rose. She's not making good choices.
More annoying than Bella?
Rose compared to Bella was like incredible. Let's not make Bella the bar.
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