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"Few creatures of the night have captured our imagination like vampires.
What explains our enduring fascination with vampires? Is it the overtones of sexual lust, power, control? Or is it a fascination with the immortality of the undead?"

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Dracula Readthrough 2025, 30 July (aussie.zone)
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CHAPTER VII

LOG OF THE “DEMETER.”

30 July.---Last night. Rejoiced we are nearing England. Weather fine, all sails set. Retired worn out; slept soundly; awaked by mate telling me that both man of watch and steersman missing. Only self and mate and two hands left to work ship.

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[–] Sergio@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"OK, listen to this one: DRACULA VERSUS THE SPARTANS. Dracula's in a boat going to England and every night he goes out of his coffin to eat the sailors. But he eats too many of them, and the boat crashes into the Greek coast. Now it turns out that there are a bunch of Greek survivalists in the wilderness there, living and training as if they were ancient Spartans. They got shields, they got spears, they got helmets robes and loincloths and that's it. And they got to survive a week in this forest with Dracula hunting them down every night. Whadayasay?!?!?"

DING! the elevator stops. the doors open. what do you say?

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This would be pretty terrifying to experience. I haven't seen the 2023 film The Last Voyage of the Demeter, but reading this, it's easy to see how someone could make a horror film out of just these few log entries.

I did see the Netflix adaptation of Dracula. Or the first two out of three episodes, at least; the second of which was based loosely on these logs. It was just a total mess though and I can't recommend it.

[–] DScratch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The Demeter episode was my favourite of the series. But yeah. Overall wouldn’t recommend.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago

I think the first was my favourite, based purely on the fact that episode 2 was bad enough that I decided not even to bother watching episode 3. But neither episode I saw did much to recommend it.

[–] oeil@jlai.lu 2 points 2 weeks ago

In a way, it reminds me of Christie's novel And Then There Were None / Ten Little Niggers and the popular nursery rhyme from 1869, Ten Little Niggers, which inspired it.

Ten little nigger boys went out to dine

One choked his little self, and then there were nine.

Nine little nigger boys sat up very late

One overslept himself, and then there were eight.

Eight little nigger boys traveling in Devon

One said he'd stay there, and then there were seven.

Seven little nigger boys chopping up sticks

One chopped himself in half, and then there were six.

Six little nigger boys playing with a hive

A bumble-bee stung one, and then there were five.

Five little nigger boys going in for law

One got in chancery, and then there were four.

Four little nigger boys going out to sea

A red herring swallowed one, and then there were three.

Three little nigger boys walking in the zoo

A big bear hugged one, and then there were two.

Two little nigger boys sitting in the sun

One got frizzled up, and then there was one.

One little nigger boy living all alone

He went and hanged himself and then there were none.