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#DraculaDaily / #ReDracula Oct. 12: okay can we agree that Mina getting them to read the burial service for her is just fucking goth as hell. almost as goth as when Van Helsing is reading the "prayer for the dead"* while Arthur is staking Lucy.
also,
Oh, my friends, you know as well as I do, that my soul is at stake
is that a pun
* I don't know what this would be, never been to a Catholic funeral let alone know what Victorian-era practices were, but it's out of a "missal" and this was before the first Church of England missals came out, and while from today's entry Seward seems to be quite familiar with the C of E burial service, he and Quincey have to try to follow along with Van Helsing, so idk something Catholic I guess.
theses have no doubt been written on Catholicism in Dracula and in Gothic literature, but suffice it to say, i think, that by the time of Dracula it was a long-established genre tradition that Catholicism is super goth
@nev Hey out of curiosity have you ever read the 1992 novel "Anno Dracula"?
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