Dracula

While I didn't finish Dracula in time to meet the deadline of the R.I.P. Challenge, I did finish it within days of the end of the novel's action on November 6 of some indeterminate year. One of the things I've noticed about reading a book like Dracula, around which a cottage industry of adaptations, homages, and even an entire genre have sprung, is that the story in the actual book becomes altered to the point that the reader had different expectations. For instance, I had the idea that the c...