"Since sleep is the twin of death, death is the twin of life. Sleep in this mirror until you are awakened."  From Dark Shadows episode 871.

From Unknown Worlds, 1941.

From Weird Tales, 1942.

At first you might be like, "Oh, great -- he comes in peace."  But then you realize that's not a peace gesture.  From the Wizardry: Bane Of The Cosmic Forge Handbook.

From our review of the admirable approach to joke illustrations in Count Draculations by Charles Keller and illustrated by Edward Frascino.

From Unknown, 1939.

This professor's official yearbook portrait, as a vampire.  From College of the Holy Cross' 1988 yearbook.

On a hunch, we held this image to a mirror, and sure enough, they're all vampires.  From Lambuth's 1965 yearbook.

"Symptomatic of the fever."  From North Carolina Wesleyan's 1987 yearbook.

May any vampire you meet today crave not your type.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.

"Vampire admits killing for blood."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1974.

From Wizardry VI: Bane of the Cosmic Forge handbook.

"Nursemaid to nightmares."  From Weird Tales, 1942.

Memories of college.  From Atlantic Christian's 1972 yearbook.

From Kent State's 1985 yearbook.

From Wizardry Monsters Manual.

From Fort Wayne Bible College's 1966 yearbook.

Punch lines themselves are funny, claimed Ludlow Porch.  "If the punch line is good enough, you don't even need to know the joke.  When you hear a good punch line, only two things can happen: Either you laugh because it is funny even without the joke, or the punch line reminds you of the joke and you still laugh" (Who Cares About Apathy?). 

So what makes the joke book Count Draculations by Charles Keller so extraordinarily charming is how illustrator Edward Frascino approached the project.  It's as if Frascino had been given a list of jokes but not punch lines.  His profuse illustrations never take any one joke literally but rather depict punch lines to wholly different jokes that aren't otherwise in the book.  Either he made up his own answers to the set-ups, or he illustrated better answers; either way, it's gold.  True to Ludlow Porch's philosophy, Frascino's isolated punch lines are funny in themselves, and they invite the viewer to come up with the missing jokes.  The illustrations in this book do not complement the printed jokes but rather offer a subtler (and superior) joke book within the joke book.