The Demeter Diaries
Report an issue
Tell us what's wrong and we'll take a look.
Thanks – we got it. We'll review and follow up if needed.
'The Demeter Diaries' is a record of love and longing and the inevitable horror that arises between the minds of Mina Harker and Vlad Dracula as they court one another in waking dreams. The dialogue, written in both poetry and prose, imagines a psychic connection that develops between the two even before Dracula arrives in England. As Dracula makes his way from Transylvania to Whitby on the doomed ship Demeter, the two would-be lovers transmit their thoughts across the waves and lands that separate them, alternately wooing and terrifying one another with the idea of love eternal and all the dark delicacies necessary to ensure it. Front cover art by Wendy Saber Core, interior illustrations by Luke Spooner
Bryan D Dietrich
Bryan D. Dietrich is the author of nine books of poems and co-editor of an anthology of superhero poetry. He has published poems in The New Yorker, The Nation, Poetry, Ploughshares, The Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, Harvard Review, Yale Review, and many other journals. Finalist for the Yale Younger Poets Prize, as well as the Walt Whitman, Pablo Neruda, and Bram Stoker Awards, he has won the The Paris Review Prize, the "Discovery"/ The Nation Award, a Writers at Work Fellowship, the Lord Ruthven Award, and has been nominated for both the Pushcart and the Pulitzer. Bryan is Professor of English at Newman University in Wichita, Kansas.
More by Bryan D Dietrich
Why Readwise Books?
Readwise Books is an ebook & audiobook platform that automatically logs how much you and your friends read, making it fun and easy to read more. Learn more →