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

• Immortal Beloved

  By chance—that is, while browsing online and ruminating over regrets—I discovered that the partner of one of my college years’ two beloveds, long ago lost to death in the form of AIDS, had himself recently died, succumbing to equally dreadful Alzheimer’s. Though it seems like only yesterday, we had, a… Read More

• “Dracula/Harker—Part I” Short Video: “When the World Has Gone Mad”

  Enter “modern woman” Wilhelmina “Mina” Murray in all her outspokenness and suspicion. Though she first appears in the first part of Dracula/Harker well before this diary entry, here is where she begins to marshal her formidable self-righteousness against the imposing foreigner Vladislaus, Count Dracula, in the cause of keeping hold… Read More

• “Dracula/Harker—Part I” Short Video: What Happens in Between

  Like all stories, Dracula/Harker: A Gay Gothic Romance—Part I has a beginning, a middle, and an end. The video below clues you in on the first and the last. As for the second, finding out is up to you. Read More

• “Dracula/Harker—Part I” Short Video: “I Awoke Alone”

  In the second chapter of the first part of Dracula/Harker: A Gay Gothic Romance, Jonathan Harker awakens in the middle of the afternoon—naked but for a few bandages—in secluded, desolate Castle Dracula, unable to recall much of what transpired between him and the mysterious Count after his arrival at the… Read More

• “Dracula/Harker—Part I” Short Video: “The Stuff of Dreams”

  Excerpted from Chapter VII: “Reticence and Fear,” this romantic interlude, which may have been only a dream, exudes the intense longing and extreme reticence unique to men who love men in a world that condemns such love. If you know, you know. Read More