Who created the email newsletter Dracula Daily?

Matt Kirkland created the email newsletter Dracula Daily.

Kirkland, a web designer, developed the project after reading Bram Stoker’s Dracula in 2020 and sharing updates about the story with his daughter. He turned that idea into a free subscription newsletter that sends each passage on, or near, the calendar date on which it occurs in the novel.

Dracula is an epistolary novel set across a single year, from May 3 to November 7. Dracula Daily uses that structure to make readers experience the narrative in real time, rather than reading all of the diary entries, letters, newspaper reports, and telegrams in one sitting. The newsletter began in 2021 and has been repeated annually.

Kirkland does not rewrite Stoker’s prose. Instead, he rearranges material so events arrive in chronological correspondence with their fictional dates. One notable example is the Demeter captain’s log, which appears as a block in the novel but can be delivered over several days by the newsletter. The format has also encouraged online discussion, memes, and renewed interest in Dracula’s adaptations.