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@ekuber I desperately hope this musical is about the life and times of Batboy as chronicled by the Weekly World News.

@konstantinosd@mastodon.gamedev.place Two chapters were cut from the start of the text, chronicling the earlier stages of Jonathan's journey in Munich & Vienna. The text is lost, but we know the synopsis from some of Stoker's notes and Dracula's Guest. Notably, in Munich, along with seeing a performance of Wagner's The Flying Dutchman, Jonathan Harker visited the city morgue, which was then a public attraction - and saw the living face of Dracula, pretending to be dead and observing his future guest from a bier!

@konstantinosd@mastodon.gamedev.place As I've mentioned before, you might want to check out Powers of Darkness, back-translated into English by Rickard Berghorn: an incomplete early draft of Dracula by Stoker that made its way to Sweden, and was translated & given a new ending by some newspaper editors there! Even given that Stoker didn't finish it and the Swedish editors' added ending is rather abrupt (though admittedly it's not clear precisely where the dividing line is) it's twice as long as the published novel.

@konstantinosd@mastodon.gamedev.place Dracula's Guest was part of the deleted opening sections of the novel at one point. According to deleted text in the surviving manuscript, the "Countess Dolingen" of the short story was actually the blonde Bride Jonathan Harker meets in Dracula's castle later!

@birdibirdson@mastodon.gamedev.place So cool (literally)! :D