DRACULA DAILY
One of my favorite things to come out of this year was DRACULA DAILY, a Substack newsletter created by Matt Kirkland that’s literally just “the classic novel DRACULA delivered to your inbox, as it happens.” Bram Stoker’s DRACULA is an epistolary novel, told entirely through diary entries, newspaper clippings, and written correspondence between its characters, with the events of the story unfolding from May 3 to November 7—so it’s handcrafted for this format of storytelling. It was kind of bittersweet to receive the final entry earlier this week (I will truly and honestly miss getting emails from my good friend Jonathan Harker and his vampire-hunting besties), but the whole experience was a really fun way to engage with a classic novel that’s been on my reading list forever. Kirkland actually started DRACULA DAILY in 2021 and brought it back this year, so I hope the newsletter becomes an annual tradition. He’s also planning to release a book version next fall (DRACULA DAILY remixes the original novel by having each entry appear in chronological order), which I will definitely be on the lookout for.
— Lauren Kirksey, Development Intern
