The Journey Planet team is back with the second installment of their look at Bram Stoker’s Dracula. There was so much interest in this topic that they received enough contributions to fill two full issues. 

Issue 87 — “Mina – Dracula’s Destroyer” — commemorates Bram Stoker’s birthday. Allison Hartman Adams joins Chris Garcia and James Bacon again to do a deeper dive into the text and works of fiction, art, and comics Dracula has inspired. 

In “Train Fiend” James looks at the railway connections to Bram Stoker and the railway aspects in the novel, comparing the train movements and times in the novel to timetables of the day, seeking to pinpoint where and when Bram Stoker based these journeys.

Dracula-related comics and movies have a strong presence here as well: Kim Newman’s review of Batman/Dracula; Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen from David Ferguson; Dracula Lives from Rob Kirby; Batman and Vampires from James Bacon, and Alberto Breccia’s “I Was Legend” from Jim O’Brien. 

In “Molested, Murdered, Maligned: In Defense of ‘Poor Dear Lucy’”, Allison challenges the dreadful treatment Lucy has received at Dracula scholars’ hands over the years. 

Allison also considers and reflects on the character of Mina in relation to why she writes, and takes a nerdy wander in “Dracula By the Numbers.”

In “Dracula: Then and Now,” James sets out from Budapest to the Borgo Pass by train, reflecting on the changes and sharing his experience and journey through Hungary and Romania.  

With stunning front and back covers by Iain Clark, the issue is beautifully bound.  

Journey Planet Issue 87 – “Mina: Dracula’s Destroyer” is available as a free download at the link.

Table of Contents

• Enditorial by James Bacon
• My Bradshaw’s: Editor’s Note by Allison Hartman Adams
• Train Fiend by James Bacon
• Mina and the The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by David Ferguson
• Why Mina Writes by Allison Hartman Adams
• Batman/Dracula (1964) by Kim Newman
• Dracula Lives by Rob Kirby
• Molested, Murdered, Maligned: In Defense of “Poor Dear Lucy” by Allison Hartman Adams
• I Was Legend: Alberto Breccia, Dracula, and the Argentinian Military Dictatorship by Jim O’Brien
• Batman & Vampires by James Bacon
• Dracula by the Numbers by Allison Hartman Adams
• Dracula Then and Now – The Borgo Pass by James Bacon