A quiet reading of Bram Stoker's "Dracula" (1897), Part 9: "Carfax" — by firelight, with soft rain and a low fireplace. Fall asleep to the long dusk of the Carpathians.

The Count has bought an estate beside Seward's asylum and brought fifty boxes of native earth across the sea.

Narrator: calm British voice, ~69 minutes

Rain ambience: Pixabay CC-BY "Calming Rain" by Liecio

Text: public domain via Project Gutenberg (Dracula, Bram Stoker, 1897)

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A quiet reading of Bram Stoker's "Dracula" (1897), Part 8: "Lucy's Tomb" — by firelight, with soft rain and a low fireplace. Fall asleep to the long dusk of the Carpathians.

Six men gather at midnight in a Hampstead cemetery for what must be done.

Narrator: calm British voice, ~57 minutes

Rain ambience: Pixabay CC-BY "Calming Rain" by Liecio

Text: public domain via Project Gutenberg (Dracula, Bram Stoker, 1897)

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A quiet reading of Bram Stoker's "Dracula" (1897), Part 7: "The Hunt Begins" — by firelight, with soft rain and a low fireplace. Fall asleep to the long dusk of the Carpathians.

Mina reads her husband's Transylvanian journal at last, and the scattered horrors begin to fit a single shape.

Narrator: calm British voice, ~68 minutes

Rain ambience: Pixabay CC-BY "Calming Rain" by Liecio

Text: public domain via Project Gutenberg (Dracula, Bram Stoker, 1897)

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A quiet reading of Bram Stoker's "Dracula" (1897), Part 6: "The Bloofer Lady" — by firelight, with soft rain and a low fireplace. Fall asleep to the long dusk of the Carpathians.

After the funeral, the children of Hampstead Heath begin to whisper of a beautiful pale lady who walks at dusk.

Narrator: calm British voice, ~78 minutes

Rain ambience: Pixabay CC-BY "Calming Rain" by Liecio

Text: public domain via Project Gutenberg (Dracula, Bram Stoker, 1897)

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A quiet reading of Bram Stoker's "Dracula" (1897), Part 5: "The Professor" — by firelight, with soft rain and a low fireplace. Fall asleep to the long dusk of the Carpathians.

Dr. Seward summons his old teacher Van Helsing from Amsterdam — the scholar knows more of Lucy's illness than he yet dares to say.

Narrator: calm British voice, ~63 minutes

Rain ambience: Pixabay CC-BY "Calming Rain" by Liecio

Text: public domain via Project Gutenberg (Dracula, Bram Stoker, 1897)

New classic-literature bedtime readings every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evening. Subscribe to fall asleep to Dickens, Brontë, Poe, Stoker, Wilde and more.

A quiet reading of Bram Stoker's "Dracula" (1897), Part 4: "First Blood" — by firelight, with soft rain and a low fireplace. Fall asleep to the long dusk of the Carpathians.

Lucy's sleepwalking grows worse, and the wound at her throat will not heal.

Narrator: calm British voice, ~67 minutes

Rain ambience: Pixabay CC-BY "Calming Rain" by Liecio

Text: public domain via Project Gutenberg (Dracula, Bram Stoker, 1897)

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A quiet reading of Bram Stoker's "Dracula" (1897), Part 3: "The Demeter" — by firelight, with soft rain and a low fireplace. Fall asleep to the long dusk of the Carpathians.

On the Whitby coast, Mina watches a Russian ship drift toward shore in a storm — empty but for one body lashed to the wheel.

Narrator: calm British voice, ~82 minutes

Rain ambience: Pixabay CC-BY "Calming Rain" by Liecio

Text: public domain via Project Gutenberg (Dracula, Bram Stoker, 1897)

New classic-literature bedtime readings every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evening. Subscribe to fall asleep to Dickens, Brontë, Poe, Stoker, Wilde and more.

A quiet reading of Bram Stoker's "Dracula" (1897), Part 2: "The Brides" — by firelight, with soft rain and a low fireplace. Fall asleep to the long dusk of the Carpathians.

Trapped in Castle Dracula, Jonathan Harker dares an escape down walls no man should climb.

Narrator: calm British voice, ~63 minutes

Rain ambience: Pixabay CC-BY "Calming Rain" by Liecio

Text: public domain via Project Gutenberg (Dracula, Bram Stoker, 1897)

New classic-literature bedtime readings every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evening. Subscribe to fall asleep to Dickens, Brontë, Poe, Stoker, Wilde and more.

A quiet reading of Bram Stoker's "Dracula" (1897), Part 1: "Castle Dracula" — by firelight, with soft rain and a low fireplace. Fall asleep to the long dusk of the Carpathians.

A young English solicitor travels to a remote Carpathian castle to finalize a property sale and discovers his host is something other than human.

Narrator: calm British voice, ~62 minutes

Rain ambience: Pixabay CC-BY "Calming Rain" by Liecio

Text: public domain via Project Gutenberg (Dracula, Bram Stoker, 1897)

New classic-literature bedtime readings every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evening. Subscribe to fall asleep to Dickens, Brontë, Poe, Stoker, Wilde and more.

A quiet reading of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet" by firelight, with soft rain and a low fireplace. Fall asleep to Sherlock Holmes.

A royal jewel left as collateral is shattered in the night. A banker accuses his own son of the theft — and Holmes finds the real culprit somewhere closer.

Narrator: calm British voice, ~62 minutes

Rain ambience: Pixabay CC-BY "Calming Rain" by Liecio

Text: public domain via Project Gutenberg (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1892)

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