I’m a little late in the month for this, but I couldn’t resist doing a themed Re-Covered Book contest for Halloween. So this time around we’re tackling Dracula by Bram Stoker, a classic novel who’s reach has influenced pop culture in so many ways and defined what a modern day vampire was. The book was written back in 1897, and as Wikipedia says, “touches on themes such as the role of women in Victorian culture, sexual conventions, immigration, colonialism, and postcolonialism.” I think this is a great way to look at the book, these themes not necessarily coming across from a pale guy with fangs and a cape.

Your job is to make a super rad cover the portrays those themes without resting upon Hollywood cliches. Perhaps your cover is gruesome? Or maybe you say fuck it all and make the funniest cover ever? It’s up to you, but be sure to steer clear of pre-existing imagery like Bela Lugosi and the such.

The prize for winning, as always, is $100 to Amazon.

RULES

• Please save your images as JPGs no larger than 800px wide at 72 DPI/RGB mode, there’s no height restrictions (within reason). Feel free to play with the dimensions and have fun with what you make. Making a front and back cover with certainly help your chances, but is not required.

• Label your files “Firstname-Lastname-Dracula.jpg”

• Send all entries to [email protected] with the subject “Re-Covered Books: Dracula“. Cut and paste what I wrote there, it’s super easy and it helps me keep track of your entry.

• All entries are due Saturday, November 12, 2011 by Midnight, PST.

If there are any other questions feel free to leave them in the comments. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with and be sure to tell your friends/classmates/pets to participate. Good luck and have fun!

See the entries below.

Fabiano Vincenzi

Steve St. Pierre

Paul Jeffrey

Laura Gomez

Simon Lindenthaler

Heather Shaw

Michael Lashford

Mikkel Holm-Knudsen

Luca van Grinsven

Grégory Sujkowski

Ryan Wunn

Mark McCartney

Jeff Sutthoff

Dominic Clifford

Marcin Dzbanuszek

Chris Best

Gillian Hobbs

Bryan Byczek

David Dalbey

Lawrence Cole

Victoria Fernandez

Devin Watson

Nim Ben-Reuven

Jennifer Talesfore

Daniel Lopez

Steven Stevens

Shelley Barnes

Francisco Hernandez

Christie Aguasin

Egyed Szabolcs

Misho Zivanov

Destin Cox

Matías Otero

Mirelle Ortega

Laurie Rollitt

Stefan Breukers

Josh Wendell

Paul Bartlett

Chase Kunz

Dustin Daniels