Ue 1 “Let Conscience Be Your Guide”: Narrative and Ethics in Bram Stoker, Neal Asher, and David Fincher Tom Ue Department of Literature, Folklore, and the Arts Cape Breton University 1250 Grand Lake Road Sydney, Nova Scotia B1M 1A2 ue_tom@hotmail.com Biography Tom Ue is Assistant Professor in English of the Long Nineteenth Century at Cape Breton University, Editor of the Journal of Popular Film and Television, and Advisory Editor of The Complete Letters of Henry James (University of Nebraska Press). He is the author of Gissing, Shakespeare, and the Life of Writing (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming) and George Gissing (Liverpool University Press, forthcoming); and the editor of George Gissing, The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming). Professor Ue is an Honorary Research Associate at University College London and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Abstract Drawing on Caroline Levine’s and Mario Ortiz-Robles’ scholarship on narrative middles, this article examines Neal Asher’s short story “Bad Traveling” (2008) and David Fincher’s adaptation “Bad Travelling” (2022) as readings of Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897). Asher, and Fincher more particularly, shift our interest from the monsters that the ships carry to the