Meant To Recommend This Earlier

[calliopes_pen]

I thought I had linked to this already, but apparently I hadn’t. For Yuletide Madness, lost_spook wrote the fantastic Night Falls for me, for Dracula (1968). I recommend reading it.

Night Falls (8535 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dracula (TV 1968)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Count Dracula/Jonathan Harker, John Seward/Lucy Weston
Characters: Jonathan Harker, Dracula, John Seward, Mrs Hoskins (Dracula TV 1968), Mrs Weston, Lucy Weston, Mina Harker, Abraham Van Helsing
Additional Tags: Mental Institutions, Mental Disintegration, Victorian, Victorian Attitudes, Pre-Canon, Period Typical Attitudes to Mental Illness, Mind Control, Vampires
Summary:

Something unknown and sinister is coming for them all…

In other Dracula related news, I just now ordered Powers of Darkness: The Lost Version of Dracula. It’s the Icelandic version, which was originally published/translated into that in 1900, and now finally translated into English--with extra characters and a few other differences in the plot from the original novel, from all I’ve heard. I’ll finally get to see how different it is.

Comments

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, thanks! (And I hope you'll review here when you've read the book, too.)

[calliopes_pen]

I might end up listing at least a few of the differences; it should be delivered sometime around Friday, so after that. From what they say over at Lit Hub, Mina is apparently named Wilma, while Lucy becomes Lucia, and Renfield is gone. Over at Lit Hub, a few of the differences start being mentioned around the paragraph that starts with this:

"The portion set in the Count’s castle is even longer than in Dracula but more action-packed. There is also a subtle layer of subversive humor present in the conversations between Harker and his host, who obviously enjoys playing cat-and-mouse with his young and somewhat naive guest."

I also read something about this version at For The Gothic Heroine after stumbling across a link that led to Tumblr a while back. A mentioned difference in this version? "Seward going temporarily insane from partying with Dracula too hard." Which...I just think of Seward in Dracula (1968), and imagine the poor man fainting at the very thought.

Oh, and apparently Jonathan is called Thomas in this version, according to what I spotted at Good Reads.

[thisbluespirit]

Oh, how interesting! I'd been hearing stuff about it, but I'd assumed most of the differences would be fairly minor tweaks, not major ones.

A mentioned difference in this version? "Seward going temporarily insane from partying with Dracula too hard." Which...I just think of Seward in Dracula (1968), and imagine the poor man fainting at the very thought.

LOL, yes. Heh, not his style at all! (Well, I suppose the being driven mad as a result is thus a fair point...)