I Received Two Dracula Stories!

[calliopes_pen]

This year, I received two stories for Yuletide, and I recommend reading both of them if you’re a fan of either Dracula (1968), or Horror of Dracula (1958)--or a Dracula fan, at all, really.

Served Cold (3402 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dracula (TV 1968), Dracula & Related Fandoms
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Jonathan Harker/Mina Harker
Characters: Jonathan Harker, Mina Harker, John Seward, Abraham Van Helsing
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Dark, Revenge, Vampires, Blood, Yuletide Treat, Crueltide, Major Character Undeath, Rocks Fall Everyone Dies, Mentions of Mina/Lucy
Summary:

Mina’s one remaining desire is simple: she wants revenge.

To the Crossroads (4581 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Horror of Dracula (1958), Dracula & Related Fandoms
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Jonathan Harker, Dracula, Van Helsing (Hammer)
Additional Tags: Vampires, Character Turned Into Vampire, Vampire Turning, hammer horror, Blood, Blood Drinking, Vampire Hunters, Religious Imagery & Symbolism
Summary:

Dracula discovers Jonathan Harker’s plot to destroy him and gives him a punishment worse than death. Harker races to get intelligence—and evidence identifying his accomplice—away from Dracula's castle, in the hope that his partner will still be able to defeat the Monarch of All Vampires. To succeed, Harker must stay ahead of Dracula’s suspicions and of his own unholy transformation.

Now to wade through the rest of the archive, and see if there are any other fandoms that I’m familiar with.

Comments

[strange_complex]

Thanks so much for sharing these! I haven't read the Dracula (1968) one, as I haven't actually seen that adaptation (though I certainly intend to at some point), but I have been saving the Dracula (1958) one for a quiet evening, and have just returned here and read it now.

I think the author has done a great job, really capturing the conflicting impulses within Jonathan's mind and the terrifying allure of Dracula himself, as well as quietly explaining quite a numfer of unexplained details about the original story. Lucky you! Do let us know if you find anything else Dracula-ish which you think is of this standard.

[calliopes_pen]

I believe that Dracula (1968) can still be found on Youtube.

(And a couple minutes to verify where I linked to it in my Dear Yuletide letter confirms that it hasn't been removed as of yet.)

[strange_complex]

Yes, I've got the link literally stored away on a list of 'to-watch' material, but am in the unhappy position at the moment of feeling so over-whelmed with long-over-due reviews that I'm not 'allowed' to watch anything else until I have written them all - an entirely arbitrary and self-inflicted rule! However, I am genuinely making progress with those now that I've got a few days to myself over the holiday, so hopefully I'll be able to get stuck into that to-watch list with gleeful abandon before too long...