Dracula Daily is Tumblr’s hottest new book club

polygon.com:

Anyone who’s anyone online has been keeping up with the daily journal entries of English solicitor Jonathan Harker — aka one of the main characters in Bram Stoker’sDracula. On Tumblr in particular, posts about the classic novel have started to take over the platform. While it may seem odd that vast swaths of Tumblr users have declared the classic novel their new obsession, there is actually a pretty simple explanation for the phenomenon: Dracula Daily.

Dracula Daily is a newsletter from web developer Matt Kirkland, which delivers the classic 1897 novel Dracula to your inbox — but with a twist. Bram Stoker’s book is written in epistolary format, via letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles. The events of the story occur between May and November, and Kirkland “will post a newsletter each day that something happens to the characters, in the same timeline that it happens to them.”

The newsletter actually first launched last year, but Kirkland decided to loop it back around again for this year, because, well, why not? It kicked off on May 3 — the day that solicitor Jonathan Harker begins his travel diary recounting his business trip to Transylvania — and will end on November 7. Some days will have no entries, while some days while have multiple chapters. (Here’s a handy guide on when the emails will come, if you were curious).

It’s not a modern adaptation like The Lizzie Bennet Diaries or indeed any sort of adaptation featuring the Count, such asCastlevania. Since the newsletter goes day by day, it is also not a one-to-one interpretation of the novel, which jumps forward and backward in time. For the most part, though, Dracula Daily is simply the text of Dracula delivered in bite-size (ha) chunks. It’s not the first