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Write Your Own Dracula Story

Underfiction turns Dracula into interactive literary prose. Choose an authored first page, enter beside the canon cast, and decide what the next scene does without being confined to prepared choices.

Bram Stoker’s world is already in motion. The characters keep their histories and tensions; your decisions create the unwritten version of Dracula.

A scene, written for you
Whitby in August is a postcard with something wrong in the corner of it. The little town stacks itself red-roofed up both cliffs of the Esk; the harbour works; the band plays on the pier. Above it all, on the East Cliff, stand the ruins of the abbey and the parish churchyard — a hundred and ninety-nine steps up, gravestones leaning out of the turf, and a bench at the cliff edge that takes the whole sweep of sea and sky. It is the finest view in Yorkshire. Lately, in the hour after sunset, people find they do not care to sit there.

You direct; the engine follows. Try a line like Continue from this choice. Preserve the characters and period, but let my decision change what follows.


The first page of Dracula is written. Take the pen and change what follows.

Begin this story

Frequently asked questions

Is this a retelling of Dracula?

No. The world and canon characters are the foundation, not a fixed plot. You can redirect a familiar scene, form new relationships, reveal a secret earlier, or take the story somewhere the original never went.

Do I choose from prepared options?

No. Write any action, dialogue, thought, or direction to the narrator. The next passage is generated as continuous prose around your decision.



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