<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[R.K.McGill]]></title><description><![CDATA[Literary Musings by R.K.McGill]]></description><link>https://www.rkmcgill.co.uk/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 21:45:49 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.rkmcgill.co.uk/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Afterlives of Dracula Part 1: Did Dracula’s Guest Inspire Young Frankenstein’s Hans Delbrück Brain Jar?]]></title><description><![CDATA[A joke that lasts a second can still leave a long shadow. In Young Frankenstein (1974), Igor enters the laboratory’s brain depository and chooses the wrong specimen. The correct jar is labelled `HANS DELBRUCK, SCIENTIST AND SAINT`. It is a beautifully deadpan detail: grand, pompous, oddly specific, and quickly replaced by the infamous “Abby Normal” brain. The name is easy to miss. Yet it has an intriguing literary echo. A Herr Delbrück appears in “Dracula’s Guest”, the posthumously published...]]></description><link>https://www.rkmcgill.co.uk/post/did-dracula-s-guest-inspire-young-frankenstein-s-hans-delbr%C3%BCck-brain-jar-part-1</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a9ee75eb373966c3b5e0399</guid><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 16:35:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b8bd82_9b4ac7e75bd6449abf86c2b4c050670f~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_768,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ross McGill</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>