I read Nosferatu The Vampyre by Paul Monette

So this is kind of a weird object to exist: a novelization released alongside Werner Herzog's 1979 adaptation of Nosferatu, itself a remake of a movie from 1922 that was based on a slightly shuffled up version of the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker to avoid copyright issues from hewing too closely to the text. I've read Dracula, I've seen Herzog's Nosferatu, I've even seen Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula from 1991. But still this weird story adapted a thousand times over compels me. An interesting thing about this novel is that it kind of sees the outbursts of vampirism and plague as a needed release valve for a rationalist Western European culture that had become stodgy, dull, exclusionary and conformist. Maybe making a bit more explicit what lurked as underlying themes in the original work, and framing them in a more sympathetic or understandable way. I enjoyed it! No idea how hard this is to find beyond stumbling on the paperback.