During his time, Oscar was a prolific reader as well as writer. Throughout his life, he created his own personal library with his favorite books. What's not often known is that he would take books he somewhat liked and changed them to suit his purposes. These were never published but were under his ghost name of Illuminati Bastard.
Dracula
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The Count is not Amused |
Wylde was at his oldest when he read Bram Stoker's
Dracula. According to various notes in the margins, he was aghast at the opportunities given up to add hot, sexual moments. especially between Lucy Westenra and whomever Oscar was thinking of at the time. He wrote an entire devoted to a circle jerk including Jonathan Harker, Lord Godalming, and Quincy Morris. Morris was rewritten to live through the final confrontation with Dracula. In this extra chapter, the three men discuss at length their adventure while masturbating over the Count's corpse.
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Laura and Carmilla |
A partially written chapter simply titled "Chapter XXX" (
Dracula has 27 chapters) seems to continue Wylde's last chapter, with avid descriptions of homosexual intercourse and necrophilia. Jonathan Harker is noted to be seen skullfucking Dracula and yelling expletives while the other two men pleasure each other. The rest of the parchment is ruined so no one knows how the extra chapter ends.
Carmilla
Oscar Wylde kept a gilded copy of this short story in his dresser. Though few, his notes indicate that the author wastes time detailing the surroundings when he could have expanded the end of the story. He quips, "After so many chapters, the protagonists suddenly learn Carmilla is a vampire, find where she sleeps, and kill her in a single chapter. I guess it isn't that I want less description, but I'd take it in exchange for a less abrupt ending." Curiously, Wylde's note are free of homosexual implications between Laura (the protagonist) and Carmilla.
Brave New World
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Lenina from Brave New World; not a distraction |
Wylde had rewritten an entire version of
Brave New World before his death. He replaces the main character John with himself and changes an introspective journey into one of continuing debauchery. If you've ever read the book, perhaps for class, you know that in the opening chapters there are descriptions of naked children "playing" with each other. Never mind what that means in a school setting. Oscar puts himself, adult self, in the middle of the children and writes rather graphically about his actions.
Against all odds, he convinces Bernard Marx to have sex with him. This changes Marx forever and makes him into Wylde's play toy and subservient. He removes all ideas of being with Lenina. Speaking of whom, Oscar also rejects her due to his homosexual nature.
Helmholtz is written as a smut writer who ultimately finds success by letting Oscar ghost write for him, This avoids Helmholtz's exile in the original novel and serves to bolster Wylde's importance eve more. For his help, Wylde is given a special batch of soma that not only suppresses unwanted emotions, but also improves wanted emotions by magnitudes.
Conclusion
These are but three stories from Wylde's rewritten collection. Perhaps you have a different view of them now that you know what Oscar thinks of them. Let me know in the comments!
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