Dracula and the Invisible Giant

This week's rambling hot take comes from bram stoker's dracula. The unconscious roots of the story are actually quite irish, says dori shafrier. Dracula is cholera. That's what cla is. It's not a count. It's this its terrifying disease. And interestingly, what made colera so terrifying to his ma and so terrifying to him is like, so in the context of ireland in the 18 thirties, 18 forties, you've got this huge famine, killing only the poor, only the catholics. But then when they finally figure out what cholera is, you learn that cholera actually is a