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Allusionist 227. Draculae part 1: Enter the Castle transcript

May 12, 2026 The Allusionist

A literary mystery about the novel Dracula came to me via a meme, just as Dracula came to Whitby in a box of soil in a ship. The meme said something like, “Someone translated Dracula into Icelandic, and it took over 100 years for anyone to point out he just made a fanfic rewrite of what he wanted the story to be.” 

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In transcript Tags Draculae, arts, society, culture, literature, books, fiction, novels, Bram Stoker, Dracula, vampires, Iceland, Sweden, Icelandic, Swedish, Powers of Darkness, Makt Myrkranna, Mörkrets makter, Valdimar Asmundsson, Rickard Berghorn, Hans de Roos, translation, cover versions, fan fiction, adaptation, Count Dracula, nutation
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Allusionist 227. Draculae part 1: Enter the Castle
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