A mutilated short story collection that once included Bram Stoker's Dracula has
metamorphosed into a different text: an imagined police case, the physical evidence stored
in a moldering case file in the archives of bureaucracy. Because of the nature of the
disappeared text, its vandalism had overtones of violent, bloody (vampiric) sexual predation.
Here the prey is Dracula himself, and so the classic villain becomes the victim, ripped from
the binding and presumably unceremoniously disposed of. Through the generation of a
case file, the scene of the crime has been thoroughly investigated, cataloged, and filed away.
The documentation of the disappeared Dracula has created another text to take its place.
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