October 27, 2025

Mandy Kaplan finally reads Bram Stoker’s Dracula and discovers a shocking truth: there’s almost no Dracula IN Dracula. Joined by Lester Ryan Clark—a high school teacher who annually reads this book and somehow convinced teenagers to care about Victorian epistolary novels—they dissect why the world’s most famous vampire is barely in his own story, and how that might be the best marketing strategy ever devised.