Category: Dracula/Harker: A Gay Gothic Romance–Part I

• “Dracula/Harker: A Gay Gothic Romance” Short Video: What Is “Romance”?

  The “romance” in the term “Gothic romance” combines its old meaning of “an adventure tale,” its new meaning of a “love story,” and the characteristics of the Romantic Movement. Consequently, works in this literary genre, as we now know it, use the structure of an adventure tale to tell a… Read More

• “Dracula/Harker: A Gay Gothic Romance” Short Video: The Tagline

  In case you missed the tagline for Dracula/Harker in the title of my “What is it all about?” video, here is a video dedicated to it. Though very short, this video leaves a lasting impression with the image of Jonathan Harker’s tear darkening into blood. Read More

• “Dracula/Harker: A Gay Gothic Romance” Short Video: Desire, Danger, and the Undead

  “What is it all about?” is the question any storyteller should be able to answer about their narrative. If they cannot readily reply, how can they expect their audience to readily relate to their story? By way of providing my own answer, the following video distills the story of Dracula/Harker:… Read More

• “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… Read More

• “Dracula/Harker: A Gay Gothic Romance” Short Video: The Elevator Pitch

  Ecclesiastes 1:9 (NIV): “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” The video below divulges the two major influences other than Dracula that inspired my reimagining of Bram Stoker’s seminal vampire novel. But before you play it,… Read More

• “Dracula/Harker: A Gay Gothic Romance” Short Video: A Trick of the Light

  A dear reader once described Dracula/Harker: A Gay Gothic Romance—Part I as “a very slow burn”—and that it most definitely is. Set in the late Victorian period and featuring a closeted gay English solicitor and a brooding, vampiric Transylvanian count, how could it be anything else? But then, as is… Read More

• “Dracula/Harker: A Gay Gothic Romance” Short Video: Ilse, Countess Dolingen of Gratz

  Though the character of the Countess Dolingen of Gratz does not appear in Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula, she is featured in his short story “Dracula’s Guest,” a presumed unused chapter of his seminal work. In it, the countess is presented as the suicided yet somehow “beautiful woman, with rounded cheeks… Read More

• “Dracula/Harker: A Gay Gothic Romance” Short Video: Jonathan Harker

  When can we be more ourselves than when we are on our own away from home? This is what English solicitor Jonathan Harker begins to discover the moment he is unexpectedly pushed out of the carriage at Transylvania’s Borgo Pass and falls into the arms of his client Vladislaus, Count… Read More

• “Dracula/Harker: A Gay Gothic Romance” Short Video: Vladislaus, Count Dracula of Transylvania

  Unlike Bram Stoker’s monstrously mystifying Dracula, my reimagined Count in Dracula/Harker: A Gay Gothic Romance is more an immortal man endowed with not spectacular but subtler vampiric powers—for example, he can neither defy gravity nor transform into mist. But what he does have in spades over the original soulless characterization… Read More

• MMT Productions’ “Horrible Covers” and Custom Book Cover Design Service

  On September 29, 2025, I received the following e-mail message from MMT Productions, a Canadian book cover design company, regarding my request to have their satirical review of my book cover removed from their website and social media. (Note: MMT’s e-mail did not stipulate that their message be kept confidential.)… Read More

• The Queer Triptych’s Review of “Dracula/Harker: A Gay Gothic Romance–Part I”

  A thoughtful review being worth its weight in gold, I feel very rich indeed. Thank you, G. Salters, for posting about Dracula/Harker: A Gay Gothic Romance–Part I on your “Pulse” blog. May our respective writings reach well beyond us to make the world a better place for people we will… Read More