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2026-03-30 02:06 UTC
@konstantinosd@mastodon.gamedev.place Two chapters were cut from the start of the text, chronicling the earlier stages of Jonathan's journey in Munich & Vienna. The text is lost, but we know the synopsis from some of Stoker's notes and Dracula's Guest.
Notably, in Munich, along with seeing a performance of Wagner's The Flying Dutchman, Jonathan Harker visited the city morgue, which was then a public attraction - and saw the living face of Dracula, pretending to be dead and observing his future guest from a bier!
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@atmcashpoint@mastodon.social 2026-03-30 02:09
@konstantinosd@mastodon.gamedev.place As I've mentioned before, you might want to check out Powers of Darkness, back-translated into English by Rickard Berghorn: an incomplete early draft of Dracula by Stoker that made its way to Sweden, and was translated & given a new ending by some newspaper editors there! Even given that Stoker didn't finish it and the Swedish editors' added ending is rather abrupt (though admittedly it's not clear precisely where the dividing line is) it's twice as long as the published novel.