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No, I'm not talking about my (only slightly bonkers) tendency to buy 1st edition hardbacks of Anne Rice books at thrift stores. I also collect copies of Dracula. (Go on, look surprised. I'll wait.) I've been trying to find a really battered paperback of it for a while now, for a project I have in mind. Have I been able to find any at the thrift stores lately? Ha, no.
So yesterday, I found a paperback copy with a tie-in cover for the Coppola movie. "Hey!" I say to myself, "I've already got a copy of this, so sacrificing this one for the craft project is a no-brainer! Easy!"
Except that the version I bought yesterday is not the same as the other Coppola movie tie-in I have. The previous one is the Official Movie Novelization. Yesterday's find is the actual novel of Dracula, but with a movie-themed cover and "8 pages of photos from the movie!".
(You see where this is going, don't you?)
I now find myself unwilling to sacrifice yesterday's find for the craft project. ::sigh::
(I also have a paperback with a tie-in cover for the Langella version of Dracula, with photos from that movie. Plus the Edward Gorey illustrated hardback, The Annotated Dracula, a smaller-than-paperback -sized hardback, and some abridged illustrated versions. Look, it's a thing, okay. I am incapable of passing up a copy of Dracula. STOP LOOKING AT ME LIKE THAT, IT'S PERFECTLY NORMAL.)
(I do the same thing with editions of Something Wicked This Way Comes. Someday I will be rewarded with finding a 1st edition of it at a thrift store. I cling to this dream.)
So yesterday, I found a paperback copy with a tie-in cover for the Coppola movie. "Hey!" I say to myself, "I've already got a copy of this, so sacrificing this one for the craft project is a no-brainer! Easy!"
Except that the version I bought yesterday is not the same as the other Coppola movie tie-in I have. The previous one is the Official Movie Novelization. Yesterday's find is the actual novel of Dracula, but with a movie-themed cover and "8 pages of photos from the movie!".
(You see where this is going, don't you?)
I now find myself unwilling to sacrifice yesterday's find for the craft project. ::sigh::
(I also have a paperback with a tie-in cover for the Langella version of Dracula, with photos from that movie. Plus the Edward Gorey illustrated hardback, The Annotated Dracula, a smaller-than-paperback -sized hardback, and some abridged illustrated versions. Look, it's a thing, okay. I am incapable of passing up a copy of Dracula. STOP LOOKING AT ME LIKE THAT, IT'S PERFECTLY NORMAL.)
(I do the same thing with editions of Something Wicked This Way Comes. Someday I will be rewarded with finding a 1st edition of it at a thrift store. I cling to this dream.)
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