Dracula Blogged

Betty Boop meets Dracula

Yes, the Count gets it on with Betty Boop.

"You hav' booped... your last... boop."

New Radio 4 Dracula play

Britain's Radio 4 is broadcasting a new take on Dracula, one focusing on the fatal voyage of a Russian ship.  "The Voyage of the Demeter" is written by Robert Forrest.

I can't get to it.  Has anyone heard it?

(via SFFAudio)

Dracula Twins: cute Gothic game

Dracula Twins is a cute game, where you play a young vampire adventuring through a cemetary stocked with monsters.  Reminds me a bit of The Hobbit (Inevitable, 2003).

(also posted at Infocult)

Dracula's Riddle

Dracula's Riddle is a website game consisting of a series of puzzles.  You solve one by correctly finding a word, which is the end of the URL for the next page.  Each page (so far) consists of an image and text.  Very frustrating, clever, and addictive stuff!

Christopher Lee reading Dracula

Christopher Lee reads an adaptation of Dracula.  The Tales of Horror podcast just made this available for download (part one, part two).

(image of Lee in the 1958 Hammer Dracula, via Wikipedia)

Lair of the White Worm podcast

A later Bram Stoker Gothic novel is now available as a free, downloadable podcast.  The Lair of the White Worm (1911) is fun and interesting, if not at the level of Dracula.

There is also a movie version (Ken Russell, 1988).  About this Roger Ebert says:

Let this much be said for Ken Russell's "The Lair of the White Worm": It provides you with exactly what you would expect from a movie named "The Lair of the White Worm." It has a lair, it has a worm, the worm is white and there is a sufficient number of screaming victims to be dragged down into the lair by the worm.

Russell provides you with your money's worth.

Illustration by Pamela Colman Smith.

More media for this year's Draculablog

I've started fulfilling my promise of adding more media to this project.  Several images have been inserted into upcoming posts, and two apposite images to one earlier entry and another.  I reproduce one here:

These are steps leading up from a tunnel in the 18th-century fortress of Terezin, located in what is today the Czech Republic.  Photo taken by the author in 1999.

Ssssssssssssoul Dracula

A lost 1970s version: Soul Dracula:

(via BoingBoing)

Dracula climbing

As Elizabeth Miller mentioned in comments, here is the image of that great scene with Dracula climbing down the castle wall, from the cover of the first paperback (abridged) edition (1901) of the novel:

(thank you, Elizabeth!)

Pack up your stakes

While we consider how to run Dracula '07, we can reflect on the appearance of yet another vampire-hunting kit in the web.

(via BoingBoing; thanks, Jesse)