…things are getting weird
The Doclopedia #3,113
Alt. History Snippets: Dracula Goes To New York, July, 1898
Not all of these snippets are based on our actual history…
What Happened: In the spring of 1898, Count Dracula decided to move to New York because the heat was on in London. Thanks to bringing along several female immigrants for their blood, the crew of the ship Dolly May never knew that Dracula is on board.
When the ship docked in New York, dockworkers demanded extra money to offload the four stone coffins and other cargo Dracula had shipped over. Unfortunately, Renfield did not have enough money to pay them. The ship’s captain told him to get the stuff off his ship. At some point, a fight broke out between crew and dockworkers and the coffins got tossed onto the dock, busting open. It being noon on a sunny summer day, Dracula and his brides screamed and crumbled to dust. Everyone but Renfield ran away at the sight of that. Renfield, who was insane to begin with, went into Insanity Overdrive. He attacked and injured several people before a couple of dozen cops beat him senseless, then took him to an insane asylum, where he spent the rest of his life. He compulsively wrote and babbled about Dracula and vampires.
The End Result: 20 years later, in 1918, H.P. Lovecraft got hold of Renfield’s notes from a friend. Intrigued, he was able to establish a correspondence with the madman. In 1920, Renfield died and Lovecraft used what he had learned to write a much different, but still very popular, Dracula novel. His career really took off. He was still a very strange and racist person until his death in 1950, in Los Angeles, California, where filming of “the Call of Dracula” was taking place. Now, in 2025, people from our world would recognize some elements of the Cthulhu Mythos in his Dracula Mythos.
The Dociverse Blog 