dracula draculer draculizt

I have discovered a new old Dracula, one even newer and older than my previous preferred new old Dracula: Mörkrets makter ("Powers of Darkness"), the likely-unauthorized Swedish version. It's nearly twice as long as the original, reframes Dracula as the head of a social darwinist conspiracy, and nobody realized it was different from the English version until a few years ago.

There's two secret draculas like this. at least two. maybe more undiscovered. whatever. The first is an Icelandic version, about one-third as long as the English version, but with a much longer exploring-Dracula's-haunted-castle section and a really rushed ending. Somehow it took over a hundred years for people to catch on that this was not the same thing as the original book, but it got an English translation in 2017. This is what I had already read; it's not as good as Stoker's version but I really like the additions to the haunted castle sequence.

The 2017 translation is what tipped off the folks in Sweden that they also had a variant instead of a straightforward translation. The Swedish version was serialized in a newspaper by an unknown translator just a couple years after Dracula Classic was published. Like the Icelandic version, it features an expanded haunted castle sequence... because this one was the source text that the Icelandic one was abridging. But instead of that rushed ending, it keeps going and going, accumulating more and more differences from the English version.

idk i just think it's neat. dracula forever