Dracula Daily by Matt Kirkland was a funny and interesting take on the classic Dracula story by Bram Stoker. I thought the journal entries by date idea was inventive and it made the story feel more realistic. I absolutely loved all of the commentary and pictures that were included as part of the project! This was so much fun to read and helped me fall back in love with an old favorite.

This was my first time reading Dracula, and I would not have wanted to do it another way! 
Reading the book in chronological order on the day the actions takes place not only put some perspective into the novel, but took a classic and broke it up into bite sized pieces for me (someone who is not a classics reader), making it much less daunting of a read. 
THE MEMES were amazing. Not only did they make this book much more fun and enjoyable to read, they also helped with my comprehension of the story. 
I loved doing Dracula Daily this year and would highly recommend it!

A bit of simple fun. Unique and interesting way to read Dracula. Definitely made for hardcopy rather than device.

I loved reading a classic this way!!! The memes made Dracula so much fun and reading the story in order of how it happened on the day everything happened was so interesting.

I really enjoyed reading the Dracula Daily emails as it spaced the story out of the course of about six months. One of my favorite aspects was the fan art and tweets that the community added about each email, and I was so glad that this book found a way to bring that context to this version of the novel. It's a fun way to experience Dracula.

Dracula Daily, what I refer to as the Dracula Devotional, is a great, easy to digest way of reading through Dracula, which can be daunting. Reading through any classic can be daunting. But, what makes this fun, is that you get to read the entries for that specific date in the book. So from May 3 all the way through November, you can count on an entry. It’s the same as the newsletter that you can sign up for, but with an added bonus of fun added in the margins, such as memes. I love what they’ve done with Dracula Daily, and I promise if you’ve struggled with Dracula before, you won’t regret this one!

Giving this one star more than the OG Dracula, because Dracula Daily was such an omnipresent, genuinely wholesome experience in 2022. This is nothing but a chronological edition of Bram Stoker's epistolary work, but just like on tumblr, the commentary in the margins is what elates it to new levels of fandom entertainment (though I do hope that the shitposters on social media were asked for permission before being mentioned in this publication). There is even fanart! You had to be there.

Dracula Daily documents an experiment in reading the events of Dracula in real time online, along with plenty of commentary from the internet. It was an interesting idea and I had some fun jumping between the book and the current day comments. I also liked the concept of reading it in real time, but did get distracted from this because it's just not how I read. I do like that I can use this Dracula Daily to repeat the experiment any time in the future. An interesting concept that influenced how I view this classic.

I participated in Dracula Daily last year (although I failed to finish it), so I was very curious when I heard it was getting published as to how they were going to format it into a book in a way that justified it's existence over a regular copy of Dracula. I think the direction they took worked out really well. I'm glad they included the commentary from last year's participants because the online response is what led me to Dracula Daily and is half the fun of the project. The illustrations and fan art were a great addition too.

This is perfect for someone who wants to read the classics but has a hard time getting into them. The tweets and comments in the margins provide a break from the story and are like little rewards, egging you on to get to the next one. Stoker's prose isn't super convoluted for a classic (except for maybe when Van Helsing is talking), but the comments and images do also aid with reading comprehension and processing the absurdity of certain scenes.

I really wanted to like this book, and I think it is a great edition to help a younger audience interested in this classic. However, I was expecting more content. There were entire pages that were just Stoker's original text, with no comments, jokes, memes, or any other form of interaction. It didn't work for me, I couldn't finish it, but I do like the idea. I'm just the wrong kind of reader for it.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for an eARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. 

I really loved how this book was set up. It was fun reading chronologically and I felt like it gave a better understanding of the book’s events. The memes and comments from various contributors definitely added to the story. This book is best read with friends and I highly recommend getting a group together to go on the Dracula Daily journey with.

As someone who has read Dracula in the past, this is such a fun way to read this story! It made the classic story feel fresh in a way that I hadn't expected. I look forward to reading this again next year!

Reading Dracula in this format is so fun. I loved seeing the events exactly as they unfold and the memes/art/commentary really makes it so much fun and helps with understanding. I wish some other classics had the commentary like this, too!

Such a fun experience! Definitely recommend.

What an absolute delightful way to read such a classic tale. the side bar funny add in's had me cackling the entire time. I will be buying a copy for next years read through

I haven't finished the book yet - I'm reading along with the dates. But this is such a delight to read. Besides Bram Stoker's fascinating story, the art, the jokes, and the comments in the margins are so much fun. They bring a fun modern understanding and enhance the reading experience. I definitely recommend the book as an excellent and unique edition of a classic book.

What an incredibly fun way to read Stoker’s Dracula. I am a huge fan of annotated books, especially this one as it’s annotated by my fellow Tumblr users. It was as if I was reading it alongside others which was an interesting experience for me. As other reviewers have mentioned, I did expect more illustrations, but the funny comments were enough to satisfy my soul. 

I really wish we had more versions of classic novels that are annotated with hilarious internet commentary and memes.

This was such a fun way to read Dracula, especially when reading it with.a book club! I loved how easily the diary entries were to follow, and that they were in chronological order so you can read it based on the actual date! I had no idea Dracula was an epistolary until this. This was a super approachable way to read a classic!

Great to have this in book form! I read Dracula daily through the email newsletter last year and loved the slow reveal of the story. This book includes comments and art from other contributors that all added to the online experience.

Compiling pop culture reactions and responses with a format that perfectly suits the epistolary style of the original Dracula, Matt Kirkland succeeds in creating a new experience for today's readers (and re-readers). The mixture of tweets, memes, and general commentary from over a century after its initial release captures a fascinating perspective of not only the horror and gothic genres, but also of how culture itself has grown and yet stayed the same.

So this is fun! I was introduced to Dracula Daily last year (however, I failed and stopped reading sometime around.. August?) and got the announcement in my inbox it was going to be a book. ?? What? How could they make a book out of something that was already a book, just rearranged in chronological order?

This is much more than "just Dracula, but in Chronological Order;" it's fully annotated with the sort of title descriptions you get when today's entry of Dracula (the novel) hits your inbox, along with comments from people who've read it over the last year or two as so many of us were, each day, fresh in the e-mail, a bunch of memes and jokes we shared with each other (or in my case, one friend put into the group chat like a meme sommelier). 

This is honestly really cool, both as someone who was there when a lot of these jokes were dropping and I think anyone who is interested to read Dracula in the future but is intimidated by its age. It's not really hard to read as it is, but I think the occasional jokes and summaries of what is going on will help make it accessible too for people who may not be used to reading older language, are ESL, or who honestly just want to have a good time.