“Dracula/Harker: A Gay Gothic Romance” Short Video: “The Children of the Night”

“Listen to them—the children of the night. What music they make!”

In Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the indelible phrase “children of the night” refers to wolves. However, in my reimagining Dracula/Harker: A Gay Gothic Romance, the literary appellation refers to bats. Why, you ask? Because, of the two, the bat is the more purely nocturnal creature, unlike the wolf, which is largely crepuscular (i.e., most active at dawn and dusk). However, for Stoker’s purposes, bats’ squeaking and chirping, unlike wolves’ mournful howls, can hardly be called “music”—lol.

Watch the video below to read what my novella makes of Count Dracula’s “children of the night.”