Thomas McDonald has a worthy salute over at his blog<\/a>. \u00a0FWIW, I don\u2019t bemoan the prose style of the late 19th century, or the cumbersome high Victorian that permeates the book. \u00a0For me, that\u2019s part of the charm. \u00a0In fact, as our own society devolves into a Twitter era of\u00a0speech\u00a0by tweet, I can\u2019t help but long for a bit of the respect given to the English language that was more common all those years ago. \u00a0Nonetheless, here\u2019s a pint raised to the man who made Vampires so awesome they will probably even survive the Twilight <\/i>series. \u00a0For me, the first section of the book, dealing with Jonathan Harker\u2019s arrival and eventual confrontation\u00a0with the reality of Dracula, stands as one of the great literary passages; like McDonald points out, the meeting of the three brides of Dracula is hard to forget. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Or at least creator thereof, Bram Stoker. \u00a0Yes, today is the birthday of the man who brought the Gothic into mainstream, and gave us a character that transcends the ages, just like he did in the novel. \u00a0Thomas McDonald has a worthy salute over at his blog. \u00a0FWIW, I don\u2019t bemoan the prose style of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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