Tag: Demeter
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The Disease That Javier Botet Lives With, And How It Became His Acting Superpower
In Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel “Dracula,” the titular Count travels from his remote castle in the Carpathian Mountains to a new home in England on a ship called the Demeter. He travels with multiple coffins filled with earth and is sealed in a coffin of his own. Weeks after departing, the Demeter drifts into Whitby…
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Where to Watch ‘The Last Voyage of the Demeter’
One of the creepiest chapters of Bram Stoker’s Dracula is “The Captain’s Log” which tells the story of the merchant ship Demeter that sailed from Carpathia to London, not knowing that Dracula is aboard, hiding inside one of the 50 wooden crates it is carrying as cargo. By the time the Demeter washes ashore, the…