Hello vampire hunters! Mina is back with a quick message for you all. She's here to share the news about It Wasn't All Bad, the new record by singer-songwriter (and Mina Van Helsing actress) Evangeline Young! Evangeline has spent years working on this record, and it's just a final big push of work away from being done. She's raising funds to help get to the finish line, and would love your help getting there.

If you enjoyed Evangeline's work in DTDM, check out the campaign and donate a bit to help her out if you can. (Or help to spread the word about it!) But please hurry - the campaign ends this coming June 14th!

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Here's a bit more about the album in Evangeline's own words:

Hello! My name is Evangeline Young, I’m a singer-songwriter and actor living in Brooklyn, NY. It’s with a lotta joy and gratitude and knee slappin’ happiness that I’m announcing…I made a record! It Wasn’t All That Bad is my first full length solo record–I began recording it in 2020, and finished earlier this year. This album has been a long time coming. I’m so excited to finally be able to share these songs and the incredible work of the talented folks who made it with me.

I’ve been singing and playing guitar since I was a kid, and started writing songs a little later into my teens. It felt like a superpower to me—taking an experience or a feeling and shaping it into a lyric or a melody. Since moving to NYC in 2017, I’ve played solo as well as collaborated with many of the incredible musicians in the music community here. It’s in those rooms with those people that these songs grew–and me right along with them. In a time of so much fear and isolation, a community of people coming together to sing, to express themselves and to hear each other is a deeply healing thing. It’s a gift to be a part of, and to contribute to.

The songs on It Wasn’t All That Bad (with the exception of the song “Home” written by my brilliant brother Noah Young) were all written over the course of a few years in my early 20s. I was learning a lot of weird, good, hard lessons (ain’t that just the way of the early 20s) and doing a LOT of growing, both as a songwriter and as a person. It’s a record about the hazards and great beauty of open heartedness. It’s about moving through hard things with people you love and walking out on the other side to a new view–one with a little more breathing room, some boundaries, and a perspective you couldn’t have found any other way. A view that allows you to look back on all those experiences and go “MAN. That was really hard, and I didn’t know, but now I know a little more and…it wasn’t all that bad.” Writing these songs gave those experiences a place to go. They’ve served as reminders for me. All I could hope for in sharing them is that they can be places to go and reminders for you, too.

Thank you, thank you, thank you for considering a donation. I really mean it when I say any amount you are able to contribute is meaningful and deeply appreciated. Sharing the link to the campaign and spreading the word is incredibly helpful too! I couldn’t have made this record without the community of people who invested their time and talent and belief into helping me make it, without the friends and family who gave me many encouraging pep talks along the ups and downs of the process, without every person who continued to ask “When’s the record coming dude?? We wanna hear it!” It’s because of all of you that this record is done and sounds as good as it does. Thank you for being a part of this community. 

I’m so proud of this record, and I really can't wait for you to hear it. The gratitude I have could fill the Grand Canyon. 

With Grand-Canyon-sized love and joy and gratitude,

Evangeline 

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He's back... Count Dracula has returned from the dead! And he's here to share important news! There's a new audio fiction series called Hit Singles, made by Dracula: The Danse Macabre creator Gabriel Urbina and frequent collaborators Zach Valenti and Sarah Shachat! It's a romantic comedy all about friendship, love, the struggles of trying to make it in a big city, and loving music way too much.

You can listen to the show over on Audible. If you have an Audible Plus membership, you can listen to it at no additional cost. (And if you still have a free trial, you can listen to it for free for 30 days!) Within the show's episodes, you'll hear a lot of familiar voices from the world of podcasting - lots of alumni from previous Long Story Short shows and from our beloved sibling series like The Bright Sessions. Best of all, you'll also hear Evangeline Young, DTDM's Mina Harker, in the lead role! It was a real labor of love put together by an amazing team, and we'd love to help it find as wide an audience as it can. So please check it out, and, if you love it as much as we think you will, please leave a rating and a review.

Here is the official description for Hit Singles:

From the creators of the hit audio drama Wolf 359 and with original music by Jeremy Warmsley comes a modern story about friendship, love, and chosen family starring Evangeline Young (Emergence), Nicholas Podany (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child), Simone Policano (Blue Bloods), Julia Rehwald (Fear Street), Briggon Snow (Masters of Sex) and a full cast. A captivating listen perfect for fans of New Girl and High Fidelity.

When struggling DJ Faith Adler comes to couch surf with her best friend Tori in NYC, she finds herself drawn into the world of Tori's eclectic friend group. Right from her chaotic first night, Faith's new friends take her under their wing and help her navigate the ups and downs of trying to make it as an artist in the big city. There's Tori, the bubbly one; Ginah, the high-strung but loyal one; Matt, the flirtatious one; and David, the cynical one. Tori and Ginah's apartment becomes a sanctuary where lasting bonds are forged over late nights, drink-filled conversations, impromptu dance parties, and the occasional Sense and Sensibility marathon.

Falling in love definitely isn’t part of Faith's plan, but that all changes when she meets David, a former law student (and current bartender) who has recently come to the conclusion that romance is for suckers and sworn it off altogether. From the moment they meet at a New Year's in the Summer party, their will-they-or-won't-they chemistry is electric. As Faith and David grow closer over whiskey-soaked nights and heart-to-heart talks on the fire escape, their flirtation deepens into something more meaningful. Are they friends? Lovers? Romantic partners? Casual sex acquaintances? The answer is, simultaneously, all and none of the above. Let the overthinking commence!

With rich character development and an ensemble cast that feels like friends you've known forever, Hit Singles deftly balances comedy, romance, and poignant drama. It's a beautifully rendered celebration of the family we choose, the cities that choose us back, and the life-altering power of human connection.

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Warning: The following episode contains discussions and depictions of violence, body horror, suicide, physical and psychological abuse, starvation, and death, including graphic depictions of harm caused by insects and burning. It also contains menacing situations, disturbing content, and jump scares. Listener discretion is advised.

Episode 4 of 4. February 1896. Robbed of the dirt boxes that sustain him, Count Dracula flees back to Europe, hoping for a chance to regroup and plan his next move. However, he soon finds Mina Harker hot on his heels. As she gives chase across Europe, their deadly game of cat and mouse reaches new heights of tension and danger. And when Mina finally catches up to him, Count Dracula finds himself in a situation he could have never prepared for...

Dracula: The Danse Macabre was created by Gabriel Urbina. Tonight’s episode was written and directed by Gabriel Urbina. Based on the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. It stars Evangeline Young as Mina Harker and Peter Coleman as Jonathan Harker. It features original music by Alan Rodi and sound design by Jeffrey Nils Gardner. Script editing by Sarah Shachat. It was recorded by Robby Schwartz at Soho Recording. This has been a Long Story Short Production.

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Dracula: The Danse Macabre is off this week, but while we work on our season finale we wanted to share another show we love with all of you. This week: Audacious Machine Creative's fictional chat show World Gone Wrong!

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WORLD GONE WRONG

Directed and Edited by Jeffrey Nils Gardner

Written by Gabriel Urbina

Produced and Created by Jeffrey Nils Gardner and Eleanor Hyde

Performed by Hilary Williams and Michael Turrentine

Show Art by Karli Fairbanks

Theme Song by Olivia & The Lovers

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Warning: The following episode contains discussions and depictions of violence, body horror, suicide, imprisonment, torture, improper medical treatment, psychological abuse, chronic physical and mental illness, premature burial, and death. It also features menacing situations, disturbing content, and jump scares. Listener discretion is advised.

Episode 3 of 4. September 1893. Now trapped inside Carfax Asylum and at the mercy of Count Dracula, Mina Harker faces danger like never before. But she is taken aback when - rather than kill her - the count offers her an opportunity to save herself... if she can beat him at his own game. Will Mina be able to withstand the horrors of Dracula's asylum? Or will the vampire succeed in his quest to corrupt her and make her the same as he is?

Dracula: The Danse Macabre was created by Gabriel Urbina. Tonight’s episode was written by Gabriel Urbina and directed by Sarah Shachat. Based on the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. It stars Evangeline Young as Mina Harker and Peter Coleman as Jonathan Harker. It features original music by Alan Rodi and sound design by Jeffrey Nils Gardner. Tonight’s episode also features Gnossiene No. 1 by Erik Satie. This interpretation of the piece comes to us courtesy of Pixabay. Script editing by Sarah Shachat. It was recorded by Robby Schwartz at Soho Recording. This has been a Long Story Short Production.

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Dracula: The Danse Macabre is off this week, but while we work on Episode 3 we wanted to share a show we love with all of you. This week: Chris and Jen Sugden's steampunk detective comedy adventure Victoriocity!

Listen to the show on their Apple Podcasts page or on their Spotify feed!

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Learn more about High Vaultage, the first Victoriocity tie-in novel!

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A transcript for this first episode can be found here.

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Gabriel Urbina: Hey everyone. Series creator Gabriel Urbina here. I'm back in the feed because... while the count and Mina may have the week off, that doesn't mean that all of you don't need excellent audio fiction content to listen to while they get ready for Episode 3. So I'm here to tell you about another show that I love, and which - if you're enjoying our take on Dracula so far? - you should definitely check out. 

Gabriel Urbina: This week, I want to tell you all about Victoriocity, the steam-punk comedy mystery detective thriller from Chris and Jen Sugden. Starring the amazing duo of Tom Crowley and Layla Katib as sardonic Inspector Archibald Fleet and intrepid reporter Clara Entwhistle, the series follows their adventures in the Even Greater London of 1887. Ruled over by the mechanized Queen Victoria, Even Greater London is a place of amazing inventions, dark villainy, and high adventure. 

Gabriel Urbina: Victoriocity is one of those shows where.. you don't just listen to it, it kind of becomes your whole personality for a while after you first encounter it. The performances are pitch perfect, the writing is sparkling, the whole thing just brims with affection for the literature and storytelling tropes of the Victorian era, and it is, I cannot underline this enough, one of the funniest podcasts out there. And there's no time like the present to get obsessed with Victoriocity, since their first tie-in novel, High Vaultage, just came out. So for anyone that's been looking for a... Terry Pratchett-esquie steampunk adventure... well, tell you what, I'm going to do you a favor right now and play the first episode of Victoriocity for you. 

Gabriel Urbina: So sit back, relax, enjoy, and I'll see you all back here next week for Episode 3 of Dracula: The Danse Macabre, Experimental Purposes. 

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VICTORIOCTY

Written by Chris Sugden and Jen Sugden

Directed by Nathan Peter Grassi

FEATURING

Tom Crowley as Inspector Fleet

Layla Katib as Clara Entwhistle

Peter Rae as The Narrator

Gemma Arrowsmith as Augusta Bell

Richard Soames as Doctor Salik

Christian Flint as The Fisherman

Chris Sugden as Chief Inspector Keller

Jackie Smith-Wood as Ludy Lucretia

Molly Beth-Morosa as Miss Waverley

George McLean as The Ticket Inspector

Additional voices by Ana Armas Romero, Edwina Christie, Daniel D. Jordan, Jamie Potton and Martha Zumack.

Produced by Dominic Hargreaves

Original music by Jon Ouin

Production management by Fiona Sinclair

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Warning: This episode contains discussions and depictions of violence, body horror, suicide, gaslighting, imprisonment, and death, as well as menacing situations, disturbing content, and jump scares. Listener discretion is advised.

Episode 2 of 4. August 1893. Schoolteacher Mina Harker lives her life on a tightrope, balancing her duties to her work, her social life, and her extracurricular interest in the occult. Her existence - and that of her best friend, Lucy Westenra - is disturbed by the arrival of a mysterious ship on the shores of New York City. Soon, they both find themselves drawing the attention of the newly arrived Count Dracula, who wastes no time in setting his evil plans for the new world into motion. Can Mina stand up to the count's dark designs? And what will happen when the ancient vampire finds himself finally facing a worthy adversary?

Dracula: The Danse Macabre was created by Gabriel Urbina. Tonight’s episode was written and directed by Gabriel Urbina. Based on the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. It stars Evangeline Young as Mina Harker and Peter Coleman as Jonathan Harker. It features original music by Alan Rodi and sound design by Jeffrey Nils Gardner. Script editing by Sarah Shachat. It was recorded by Robby Schwartz at Soho Recording. This has been a Long Story Short Production.

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Dracula: The Danse Macabre is off this week, but while we work on Episode 2 we wanted to share a show we love with all of you. This week: Shipwrecked Comedy's hilarious noir adventure The Case of the Greater Gatsby!

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A transcript for this first episode can be found here.

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Gabriel Urbina: Hi everyone. Series creator Gabriel Urbina here. Dracula: The Danse Macabre releases every two weeks, and this is one of the weeks when we... don't have a new episode out for you all. I'm sorry! But - but - but... I do have something to make it up to you. During these off weeks, I want to share with all of you episodes of other fiction podcasts that I love, and which I think you'll love as well. Think of it as... companion pieces to Dracula. If you've liked what you've heard of our show so far, you'll probably like these shows and should check them out.

Gabriel Urbina: The first podcast that I want to highlight here is The Case of the Greater Gatsby, by the fine folks over at Shipwrecked Comedy. It is a hilarious take on the conventions of film noir, as we follow the adventures of taciturn private eye Ford Phillips and his fast-talking partner Fig Wineshine. The two of them have to delve into the muck of 1940's Hollywood as they try to solve the murder of acclaimed novelist, F. Scott Fitzgerald. 

Gabriel Urbina: Now, just from that description, you can probably already tell why I love this show. It's fast, it's snappy, it's got great dialogue, and it blends the lines between a literary adaptation and historical fiction in all of these really smart, creative ways. But I don't think anything I could say here would properly convey just how charming the characters are, how genuinely gripping the mystery plotline in the show is, and just how many fun, clever things they do with the audio format. So, instead of trying and failing, I want to just play for you the first episode of The Case of the Greater Gatsby. How does that sound? Good? All right, I thought so too. I am going to leave you now in the capable hands of Fig and Ford, as they take you away to 1940's LA. 

Gabriel Urbina: Enjoy, and I'll see you back here next week, for Episode 2 of Dracula, A Stranger in a Strange Land. 

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THE CASE OF THE GREATER GATSBY

Written and Created by Sean Persaud and Sinead Persaud

Directed by William J. Stribling

FEATURING

Sean Persaud as Ford Phillips and Jimmy Stewart

Sinead Persaud as Fig Wineshine

Tim de la Motte as Archibald Maitland

Tom DeTrinis as Robert Leonard

Matthew Mercer as Mo Beats

Mary Kate Wiles as Vivian Nightingale

Joey Richter as Danny Saxman

Dante Swain as Bixby Crane

Sarah Grace Hart as Wilhelmina Vanderjetski

And Christopher Higgins as the Emcee

Original music by Dylan Glatthorn

Additional music by Kevin Luce

Audio recording by Ears Up Studio and Noah Hunt Audio

Mixing and Sound Design by Lizzie Goldsmith

Executive Producers Paul Komoroski & Michael Walsh

Produced by Sean Persaud, Sinead Persaud, and Mary Kate Wiles

Special thanks to Kickstarter backers Katie Adamczyk, Ally Brown, Zainab Khan, Shao Chih Kuo, Jane Leach, Avalee Long, Lisel Perrine, Halsea Root, The Rude Mechanicals, Heather Tennant, and Justin Waterman.

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Episode 1 of 4. May 1893. Sent by his superiors to Transylvania to help a member of the local nobility with a real estate purchase, American clerk Jonathan Harker soon finds himself brought to a foreboding castle. There, he meets the mysterious Count Dracula, and learns of his plans to come to America... as well as the darker secrets the count has been keeping for centuries. Can Jonathan find a way to escape Castle Dracula before the Dracula can set his evil plan in motion? And back home in America, is Jonathan's wife Mina ready for the darkness that is headed towards her?

Dracula: The Danse Macabre was created by Gabriel Urbina. Tonight’s episode was written and directed by Gabriel Urbina. Based on the novel by Bram Stoker. It stars Evangeline Young as Mina Harker and Peter Coleman as Jonathan Harker. It features original music by Alan Rodi and sound design by Jeffrey Nils Gardner. Tonight’s episode also features Gnossiene No. 1 by Erik Satie. This interpretation of the piece comes to us courtesy of Pixabay. Script editing by Sarah Shachat. It was recorded by Robby Schwartz at Soho Recording. This has been a Long Story Short Production.

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Centuries-old vampire Count Dracula leaves his home of Transylvania and comes to the new world, intent on reigning death and destruction upon it. Can Mina Harker and her husband Jonathan find a way to stop him before it’s too late? Bram Stoker’s timeless horror classic returns, reimagined as a four-part audio fiction podcast. But not everything is as it once was or as it seems, so you'll have to listen very carefully as the story unfolds as a dialogue between two of the novel’s iconic characters.

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Woman: The rules that govern the vampire are well known.

(Thunder crashes behind her. A storm grows in power beneath the following:)

Woman: He does not die, but clings to life forever.

(Dark, foreboding music plays beneath her words.)

Woman: Having lost his own life, he must steal the life of others by drinking their blood.

Woman: If a place is a home, he may only enter after he's been invited in.

Woman: He is destroyed by the sun and cowers at the sight of religious symbols.

Woman: He can be put to rest by a stake through the heart, or by the removal of his head, or by means of fire.

Woman: And when he crosses a mirror... he leaves behind no reflection.

Woman: And though the vampire may look like a man, all traces of intelligence vanish upon death, leaving behind nothing but a beast. There are no vampires that can think like a man.

Man: None... except for one.

(A powerful crash of thunder.)

Announcer: Dracula: The Danse Macabre. A four-part fiction podcast event from Gabriel Urbina, the creator of Wolf 359, bringing Bram Stoker's timeless horror classic to audio. Coming November 13th, wherever you get your podcasts.

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