Dracula Daily (2021– )
The novel by email, each entry on the day it happens.
Dracula is a stack of dated documents, so read it on the dates — alongside a few hundred thousand other people doing the same.
You have started the novel before and stalled, and you would like it to arrive in small pieces, on the right days, with a few hundred thousand people reading along.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: Stoker’s text and his calendar. Nothing arrives early, and some weeks nothing arrives at all, because nothing happened to anyone that week.
Changes: the pace, which becomes the novel’s own. It is free; there is also a hardcover that prints the text with commentary collected from readers online.
Whose story is it?
whoever is writing that day.
How much time does it ask?
Runs every year from May 3 to November 7. This year’s run was live when this page was checked on 21 October 2026.
Free on Substack, run by Matt Kirkland. The book: Dracula Daily, Andrews McMeel, hardcover, 19 September 2023, 304 pages.
Where to find it
Subscribe free — Dracula Daily
Other ways to get it: Buy the hardcover — Bookshop.org · Hardcover — Amazon · Ebook — Kobo · Kindle — Amazon
Borrow it free: Borrow on Libby · Find at your library — WorldCat
Common questions
When does Dracula Daily start?
Every year on May 3, the date of Jonathan Harker’s first journal entry, and it ends on November 7. It is free. If you join partway through, the earlier entries are on the Substack.
More Draculas: The Norton Critical Edition, second edition · The Oxford World’s Classics edition (2011) · The Penguin Classics edition (2003)