Again you all are missing the point, and missing out on the true comedy of this novel which is: for as strangely cheerful as Jonathan is he IS genre savvy and he DOES think something horrible might happen to him. The last two entries ended with him hoping desperately he'll get to see his family again. Not the words of someone unaware of the danger he's in. The comedy of Dracula is how he looks at the warning signs, SEES them, and his reaction is just to be like ":/. I guess this what I signed up for when I became a real estate agent. Should I have seen this coming?" Like this man is willing to risk joining the legions of the undead if that's where his line of work takes him. Furthermore his naturally buoyant spirit heightens the comedy bc his mind is like "Am I about to die? Man I love my fiance she's the best! Am I about to die? These mountains are gorgeous! Am I about to die? These locals are so kindhearted! Am I about to die? This chicken is really good! Am I about to die? My boss likes me!!! Am I about to die?

I just want everyone new to Dracula and reading Dracula Daily to note that you are getting to read this novel in a weird and wonderful way that its author absolutely did not intend. This is not a straight serialization of the text. Dates skip around in Dracula as it is written, moving the reader backwards and forwards in time to help shape the specific narrative Bram Stoker wanted to tell. We all will–in fact–be skipping ahead some chapters in a few days to meet another narrator only to skip immediately back to catch up with our collective friend Jonathan Harker.

And I think this is rad! I think it’s amazing to have a bunch of readers who are reading this book–not as Bram Stoker wrote it–but in a way that conforms to the steady march of events within it. This is a unique opportunity in that you guys don’t get to your their reactions in relation to things you know will happen later. You can’t have your dread or anticipation undercut by future events.

Like all the characters you’re going to meet, you just have to wait for Dracula to act upon you.

I hope everyone is not only ready to experience the majestic weirdness that is Dracula but also to gradually learn about how the novel has never been adapted with anything approaching 100% accuracy and how every Dracula film is an even weirder remix of the original. All your blorbos have been bizarrely cut and spliced with other blorbos throughout this book’s cinematic history.

We have already passed the point in the novel where–in one of its most iconic film re-imaginings–the viewer has been introduced to Count Dracula’s pet armadillos and a single vampire bee crawling into its own little bee coffin.

"He petted and soothed them, and whispered something in their ears, as I have heard of horse-tamers doing, and with extraordinary effect, for under his caresses they became quite manageable again"

Can't believe Dracula is canonically a horse girl

Thoroughly enjoying the mental image of Dracula whipping up a roast chicken and a salad AND changing his fake beard for a fake mustache AND getting his guest's room ready, all at top speed, as Jonathan stands around outside like "yeah ok I guess I'm gonna just hang out here until morning, sure hope the wolves don't eat me"

[image id: an edited tweet from "Jonny Harker, ALC" (@jharkrealestate) reading "Uber driver kept getting out of the carriage to chase a blue flame and then got back in and continued as if nothing happened. Still gave him 4 stars (I'm not an animal) but is this normal in the Carapathians?" Accompanying is an edited screenshot from the Uber app, showing the driver, "Drake", a man in a top hat and dark sunglasses with a 4.8 star rating and the calèche in silhouette. The tweet is dated May 5, 1893 and was made on Twitter for iTelegraph. end id.]

[ID: A Doofenshmirtz two nickles meme. The first panel is edited with an image of the Dracula Daily icon and says, "If I had a nickel for every time tumblr fixated on a horror story from the late 1800s, I'd have two nickels."

The second panel shows Dracula's image faded out with a book cover of The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe replacing it and says, "Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice." End ID]

Jonathan Harker, a man who only yesterday was physically and mentally obliterated by paprika, is largely unphased by the locals being very clearly disapproving of his decision to visit his cool new friend, DRACULA.