In Each Retelling

Send us Fan Mail Good news: Ellie finally admits to actually being Carmilla, the Harkers know that Dracula was real, and Van Helsing continues to be a cinnamon roll among vampire slayers. Bad News: Laura has been kidnapped by Dracula, Seward is a stubborn skeptic, and Lucy is probably eating kids. Surely Dracula can be defeated under these conditions. Also a special announcement at the end about u...

Send us Fan Mail It's the week of Friday the 13th and no one's luck in this novel has improved at all. Lucy continues to fade away, and Van Helsing desperately tries to save her from not just Dracula, but her own mother's attempts to get rid of her garlic flowers. Additionally, we suggest that vampire hunters should start more restaurants with lots of garlic recipes. The following p...

Send us Fan Mail Jas and Callie may be despondent over happenings on a whole other podcast, but not to worry, there's plenty of misery to go around in Dracula as well, with a whopping four deaths, including our beloved Lucy Westenra. About the only levity we have is Callie's silly jokes and one very good wolfy boy...and also Jas, Shami, and Callie are ready to address the giant panther i...

Send us Fan Mail On the 23rd day in the month of September, in a year from a decade not too long before our own, a threat to the sanctity of a cult classic musical came into being...or did it? Dear listeners, your host did not expect her friends to be so eager to read her silly little sequel to one of her favorite musicals, but they did, and now you get to hear this utter nonsense! The following p...

Send us Fan Mail It is now officially the equinox and sadly Hadestown (Act II) is still in progress, but the good news is there's a whole hour of bonus goofs and tangents that I can share while Hades and Persephone reunite and hopefully bring autumn to the land instead of rising temperatures that remind us that sadly no, Orpheus did not stop climate change. Clips Used "Road to Hell (Repr...

Send us Fan Mail We may have forgotten a little thing called spring, but that doesn't mean we can't still discuss the highly acclaimed and highly popular musical adaptation of the tragedy of Orpheus and Eurydice, that also saw fit to make it all about the reason for the autumn season, Hades & Persephone. In the kind of jam packed episode we will  never allow to happen again, hear us...

Send us Fan Mail Because talking about 10 Things I Hate About You made us yearn for a simpler time when mid budget movies that set Shakespeare plays in high school existed, we've decided to pitch our own versions! Could King Lear be about Texas high school football? Can you thread the needle between the very different moods of a Measure for Measure adaptation? What if someone decided the answ...

Send us Fan Mail It's the 13th episode, and perhaps that's why Dr. Seward's having such a rough week between potentially watching the girl he loves die, and Renfield having more and more mental breakdowns because Dracula abandoned him...but truthfully, we don't care so much about Seward, so Jas, Ellie, and Shami find themselves discussing Van Helsing finally arriving, geography...

Send us Fan Mail It's officially back to school season, and without a strike to stop us, we can finally discuss the absolute high school rom com classic,  10 Things I Hate About You . Join Jas, Sam, Callie, and River in discussing how Petruchio  wishes he was Patrick Verona, how much we long for the return of the mid budget movie,  especially  rom coms, and how such a hateful play giving us a...

Send us Fan Mail Good news, Shami's back, and is torturing Dracula with disco music. Bad news, this is a fairly short segment again where Arthur finally admits something's wrong with his fiancee. So instead we end up talking a lot about vampiric animals, where the hell Quincey's been, and how we promise we're not sponsored by Are You Afraid of the Dark Universe . The following...

Send us Fan Mail Lightning Thief Month comes to an end with arguably the adaptation that finally did this story justice, the Disney+ series  Percy Jackson and the Olympians . Here Jas, River, Leif, and for the very first time Edric, will discuss all the ways this brilliant series is both loyal to its source material, and manages to update it in a way that makes this nearly 20 year old story feel f...

Send us Fan Mail This week it would seem that our attempts to thwart Dracula have put a target on our beloved Shami's back, so she sadly could not join Jas, Ellie, and Callie this week. To distract ourselves and MAYBE find a solution, we explore how Renfield is a desperate wannabe member of the Evil Polycule, Mina and Jonathan being relationship goals, Lucy is scared and alone, and oddly enou...

Send us Fan Mail In the penultimate episode of Lightning Thief Month, we discuss the musical adaptation, and it's honestly a little surprising that it exists, and Jas questions whether or not this adaptation is much better than the despised film adaptation in spite of taking just as many liberties, and River and Meredith help explain why the fanbase gives it a pass. The following podcast is f...

Send us Fan Mail It's just Jas and Callie today, and the good news is Jonathan's alive! The bad news is Mina and Lucy have no idea of the danger they're in. About the only comfort we have is how gay they're still being, and plotting all the ways we're going to beat up Dracula. The following podcast is for entertainment purposes only. The views and opinions expressed therei...

Send us Fan Mail Fourteen years ago, Jasmine's family had a movie night, and discovered the director of two films Jasmine had a great fondness for at the time had done a similar film about the children of Greek gods, and had a pretty decent time, blissfully unaware of the fandom outrage. Now, Jasmine, River, Leif, and Callie discuss whether or not that outrage was justified...spoiler alert, y...

Send us Fan Mail Between the major character deaths, the ill fated puppies, and Dracula's first bite out of Lucy, it's a harrowing week in the Dracula novel this week. Join Jas, Ellie, Shami, and Callie as we discover our comic relief had hidden depths just before we lost him, and that the SPCA has existed for 200 years (and if you can you should 100% donate to your local chapter to save...

Send us Fan Mail Surprise bonus episode, although does it really count when it's belated? But hey, this episode gets to come out on the anniversary of its subject matter, the beautifully sung, beautifully animated roleplaying game (or is it a visual novel? Jury's still out) where a metaphorical boat lost at sea must clear her name in the murder of the last muse! Here Jas, River, Ellie, a...

Send us Fan Mail "Look, I didn't want to be a half blood." Nearly 20 years ago, that simple sentence renewed youthful interest in Greek mythology, and shockingly, there have been three adaptations (four if you count the graphic novel) of this modern myth about a troubled preteen boy who discovers he's a descendant of the Greek gods, and this month, we at In Each Retelling are e...

Send us Fan Mail The Captain of the Demeter is wrong about his first mate, the older gentleman Lucy and Mina met might be right about not being so precious about the dead, and maybe the way to shake up the Dracula story is by incorporating lesser known vampire myths. The following podcast is for entertainment purposes only. The views and opinions expressed therein belong only to the speakers. Addi...

Send us Fan Mail Wrath Month belatedly continues with one of the loosest Shakespeare adaptations ever, and Jas tries to figure out how she feels about it while River, Matt, and Kyle explain why they love this meandering but poignant film, and come up with some fun double features for it! The following podcast is for entertainment purposes only. The views and opinions expressed therein belong only...

Send us Fan Mail How on earth did D&D, Taylor Swift, Star Trek, Chappel Roan, and all other sorts of nerdy shit get involved in our quest to read  Dracula and help the Harkers break the time loop? Find out on this belated edition of  Dracula Weekly , starring Jas, Callie, and Ellie! The following podcast is for entertainment purposes only. The views and opinions expressed therein belong only t...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Dracula Weekly, while the crew of the Demeter is feeling tense, Lucy and Mina are trying to be blissfully unaware in their proto cottagecore outing, but between Lucy's sleepwalking and Mina's suspicions about Jonathan's letter, it's hard to not feel like the tropes are hungry. Meanwhile Jas, Callie, and Shami bemoan the constant character assassina...

Send us Fan Mail Shami and Jas are short on novel to read and ideas on how to break the time loop this week, so we decided to discuss all of the varying adaptations of Dracula in these unprecedented times. We've got Moffat being on his bullshit, lady vampires that are tired of the Count's shit, a surprising amount of ballet, and a couple of adaptations that technically never were. The fo...

Send us Fan Mail IER returns, and since we tragically missed Pride Month, July will now be wrath month, and our first entry is really an embodiment of feminine rage in Black Swan , where Sam and Jas discuss the horrors of being a woman, being a ballerina, and our society's over-romanticization of sacrifice. The following podcast is for entertainment purposes only. The views and opinions expre...

Send us Fan Mail And just where have the Dracula Weekly gang been? Turns out you gotta be careful what you joke about on the Internet, because the multiverse just might hear you... The following podcast is for entertainment purposes only. The views and opinions expressed therein belong only to the speakers. Additionally, this podcast contains swearing, and mentions of racism and misogyny. Clips Us...