Hilarious That Dracula Does Not Seem To Realize That He Could Have Just Showed Up As A Dog And Scratched

Hilarious that Dracula does not seem to realize that he could have just showed up as a dog and scratched on the door and Lucy absolutely would have let him right in. Work smarter, not harder, buddy.

Of wolves* and bats...

*A response to DD September 18 in two parts; I talked about wolves in another post.

Bats. VAMPIRE BATS, specifically.

Today our beloved cowboy, Quincey, relates the story of the overnight exsanguination of a horse, *relating the incident overtly to Lucy's illness." He describes damage to the "gorge" aka throat.

I have to conclude this was Stoker slapping the reader upside the head just in case due to their inexperience with vampire fiction they might not yet have figured out what was going on with Lucy. What with Victorian Lady Dying Disease being a thing, or whatever it's called.

But come on, Seward. COME ON. Did you not JUST NOTICE that Lucy's throat puncture marks look mangled? Have you not been racking your brain to think of how she could possibly be losing blood? Have you not SPOTTED BATS flying around in the sky?

I'm certainly not suggesting Jack should realize it's a vampire monster. But when Quincey told his story how could Jack not respond "HOLD UP. A bat drained your horse of blood overnight, you say? And Van Helsing insists we keep the windows shut in Lucy's room? DEATH TO BATS!!!"

"Yes but Cherry, vampire bats aren't native to England."

Of course not, but ships are docking in London from all over the world, friend. You really want to argue that ONE vampire bat couldn't have stowed away?

I get that up until now it was reasonable for no one but VH to have a clue about what the illness afflicting Lucy could be. But Quincey dropped *that* story and Jack didn't pick it up I'm dtvgdggdhhgjj

Sir Edward Burne-Jones, School For Dragon Babies, 1884, pencil on paper

Van Helsing, trying desperately not to get put in a straitjacket: don't tell anyone about this. in fact I'm not even going to tell you. just make sure you don't go to sleep. the garlic is medicine okay and it stays. you wouldn't dig up a corn, would you? CORN, Jack. guys she ran out of blood we need your blood don't ask why. I'm off to Amsterdam don't die.

Quincey Morris, showing up a week late with Starbucks: hmmm sounds like vampires to me

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