tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15742539.post2141848580880167844..comments2024-03-28T03:10:19.013-07:00Comments on Fraggmented: Storytelling Engines: Universal's "Dracula"John Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07530526320973807452noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15742539.post-88281609134968783902009-01-28T12:05:00.000-08:002009-01-28T12:05:00.000-08:00Looks like we both only partially remembered it. F...Looks like we both only partially remembered it. From Project Gutenberg's HTML version (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/345/345-h/345-h.htm):<BR/><BR/><I>" I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.<BR/><BR/>"As I looked, the eyes saw the sinking sun, and the look of hate in them turned to triumph.<BR/><BR/>"But, on the instant, came the sweep and flash of Jonathan's great knife. I shrieked as I saw it shear through the throat. Whilst at the same moment Mr. Morris's bowie knife plunged into the heart.<BR/><BR/>"It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight. "</I><BR/><BR/>So he got a slash to the throat, and a stab to the heart, but not with a stake but with a bowie knife. He "crumbled to dust"... or so it seemed. (-:magidinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12255841033538755123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15742539.post-37186994384308247402009-01-28T07:46:00.000-08:002009-01-28T07:46:00.000-08:00I know you well enough to know that if I remember ...I know you well enough to know that if I remember it one way and you remember it another, then I'm wrong, plain and simple. :)<BR/><BR/>I always remember that sequence as "stake to the heart", but I'll freely admit I remember the Classics Illustrated panel far better than I do the book. Something about the stricken look on Dracula's face as they say, "For Mina. For Lucy. For all mankind," just indelibly burned itself into my childhood brain far better than the book ever did.John Seaveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07530526320973807452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15742539.post-59959511427371208612009-01-27T11:50:00.000-08:002009-01-27T11:50:00.000-08:00Ehr, no: the book does not end with Dracula gettin...Ehr, no: the book does <B>not</B> end with Dracula getting a stake through the heart; rather, he gets a chop to the neck with a "blessed" machete. <BR/><BR/>In fact, that is the plot device used by Saberhagen to bring back Dracula in "The Dracula tapes": since the Count was not terminated in one of the approved methods, he only had to wait long enough to regenerate and be able to come back.magidinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12255841033538755123noreply@blogger.com