Haunted habits: what Dracula still teaches us

FROM whispered warnings to quiet rituals, some stories don't stay confined to the shelf.

- REHANA RUTTI

Eventually, I found myself rewatching Dracula.

By the time the credits rolled, I reached for my battered copy of Bram Stoker's Dracula. This time, the story felt less like a horror tale and more like a conversation with a shadow from the past.

I wasn’t just reading - I was inside the book, standing face to face with the Count himself.

If I ever met Dracula, what would I say? Would I see the charming nobleman beneath the dark cape or would the superstition woven into his legend stop me in my tracks?

There's a hypnotic tension here. Dracula is both magnetic and terrifying. The very details that make him noble also render him uncanny.