Volume 13, No. 1
November 2000
Urban Legends & the Challenges of Standardization
An Artificial Line, or Technology as Spectrology
Dracula and Nineteenth-Century Communication Technologies
Although Bram Stoker composed on then cutting-edge technology, the typewriter, he posed for this 1906 portrait exhibiting the gentlemanly art of penmanship. (from David J. Skal, Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1990) page 19.
Castle Bran in Romania—a classic vampire dwelling. After reading Dracula, you would surely recharge your cell phone before entering. From Matthew Bunson, The Vampire Encyclopedia (New York: Crown Trade Publications, 1993).