Jack has a spooky party at his house where everyone has to tell a ghost story like they’re living it up at the Villa Diodati.

There appear to have been werewolves planned.

Also, he just might SAVE THE DAY DURING THE FINAL BATTLE BY OPENING FIRE WITH AN EARLY FORERUNNER TO THE MACHINE GUN. He also might go to Transylvania in the middle of the book.

Quincey might be a professional inventor named Brutus Marix.

The Count has a secret chamber where everything is blood red, and it’s apparently really scary.

Other unused characters include a philosophic historian, a paranormal investigator, and a pair of deaf/mute servants in the Count’s employ.

There’s a painter named Francis who probably discovers that the Count (in addition to having no reflection and showing up as a skeleton in photographs) cannot even be painted.

There’s a third heroine named Kate Reed (or Kate Lee) who is school chums with Lucy and Mina and apparently helps to spread the flow of gossip about Lucy and her curly-hair beau going to St.

Jonathan Harker has a “shrewd, skeptical sister.”.

Arthur doesn’t exist and Jack/Lucy is canon.

Things initially were going to take place in Styria and the villain’s name was going to be Count Wampyr.

Some of them got recycled into a short story later published as “Dracula’s Guest.” Some of them only appear scrawled in Stoker’s atrocious handwriting on the various papers collected at the Rosenbach in Philadelphia. Some of these things appear in fragmentary form in the typescript for Dracula. Stoker’s Notes/Typescript/“Dracula’s Guest”īram’s notes for Dracula indicate that he worked on the novel for at least seven years, that it went through many substantial changes in its plot and cast, and that he had a lot of completely metal ideas that either fate, his editors, or his slender grip on good taste did not permit to appear in the final novel. So yeah… here’s a rundown of the three weird psuedo-canonical AUs that this fin de siecle vampire novel just sort of… comes with.

One of the coolest things about being a Dracula fan in the 2010s is all the recent publication of materials shedding light on all of the really bonkers alternate Draculas that either nearly became Dracula itself or spun off from the original 1897 text.

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