This post is a follow-up to a post I wrote way back in 2020, right in the midst of the pandemic, as part of a series called ‘Stay in and Read’. For that blog series, I recommended books that could provide a good ‘escape’ during that troubled and uncertain time. I could argue that we’re still in uncertain and troubling times now and, even if you don’t agree, who doesn’t want to escape into a good book every once and a while?

That’s why I wanted to take some time AGAIN to talk about why I love reading Dracula around this time of year. It’s spooky, it’s sexy, it’s surprising, and in my humble opinion it’s a superior experience to any adaptation I’ve seen (and I’ve seen a lot of them!).

Here are four great reasons to read (or re-read) Bram Stoker’s Dracula: