PoT: Dracula, Nosferatu, and Castlevania

Today, Sherigan and Mischief talk quite a bit about vampires. The duo discusses the potential origin of the vampire myth and its fictional adaptations, especially focusing on Dracula (1897). Moreover, the two further discuss the adaptations of Stoker’s vampire mythos through F.W. Murnau’s movie Nosferatu (1922) and Netflix’s series Castlevania (2017). All the while, they pore over the hardest question of them all: “If evil, why hot?”

(The format of this podcast is still undergoing changes as both Sherigan and Mischief pore over the best strategy for this project)

CW: Swearing; Mentions of Depression and Suicide

Intro-Music by aaroncookmusic “Lo-fi Jazz Chill Cafe” on audiojungle.
Background-Music by HotLoops “Lo-Fi Jazz Soul Loop” & “Lo-Fi Jazz Hop” on audiojungle.

Secondary Sources:
D’Agostino, Thomas, and Arlene Nicholson. A History of Vampires in New England. Published by Haunted America, a Division of the History Press, 2010.

Fall, Wendy. “Vampires: Reflections in a Dark Mirror”. The Palgrave Handbook to Horror Literature. ed. Kevin Corstorphine and Laura R. Kremmel Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, pp. 205–18.

Gilmore, D.D. (2009) Monsters: Evil beings, mythical beasts and all manner of imaginary terrors. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Groza, Adriana. Transylvanian Vampires: Folktales of the Living Dead Retold. McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2014.

Gothic Afterlives: Reincarnations of Horror in Film and Popular Media. Lexington Books, 2021, pp. 61-78.

Miller, Elizabeth Russell. A Dracula Handbook. Xlibris, 2005.