Richian Presents: Dracula

12 September. Lucy's diary.

The garlic works. Lucy sleeps through the night for the first time in weeks and starts to feel like herself again.

Across London, a grey wolf named Bersicker slips out of his cage at the zoo, and his keeper gives a newspaper an interview about how gentle he is. At the asylum, Renfield gets hold of a knife.

And at Hillingham, Lucy's mother, worried about the smell, opens the window.

Chapter XI of Bram Stoker's Dracula, performed by a full cast.

Richian Presents: Dracula is Bram Stoker's 1897 novel as a full-cast audio drama, told in the letters and diaries he wrote it in. The voices are AI. Casting, direction and the cut are by Rich and Adrian.

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6 September.

Van Helsing arrives and says almost nothing about what he suspects. He asks for blood instead. Arthur gives his first, then Seward, and each time Lucy comes back a little and then slips further away overnight.

So the professor tries something stranger. He fills her room with garlic flowers, hangs a wreath around her neck and tells everyone to leave them exactly where they are.

Chapter X of Bram Stoker's Dracula, performed by a full cast.

Richian Presents: Dracula is Bram Stoker's 1897 novel as a full-cast audio drama, told in the letters and diaries he wrote it in. The voices are AI. Casting, direction and the cut are by Rich and Adrian.

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24 August. Buda-Pesth.

Mina finds Jonathan in a hospital bed, thin and frightened, and marries him there. He gives her his journal from the castle, sealed, and asks her never to open it unless she has to.

In London, Lucy is engaged to Arthur and getting weaker by the day. Dr. Seward can't find a cause, so he sends to Amsterdam for his old teacher, a professor who knows more about obscure diseases than anyone alive.

Chapter IX of Bram Stoker's Dracula, performed by a full cast.

Richian Presents: Dracula is Bram Stoker's 1897 novel as a full-cast audio drama, told in the letters and diaries he wrote it in. The voices are AI. Casting, direction and the cut are by Rich and Adrian.

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11 August. 3 a.m.

Mina wakes to an empty bed beside her. Lucy has walked out of the house in her nightdress, and Mina runs through the dark streets of Whitby to find her on their bench in the churchyard, with something long and black bending over her.

Afterward there are two tiny red marks on Lucy's throat. Mina blames herself and a careless safety pin.

Then news of Jonathan, from a convent hospital in Budapest. And at the asylum, Renfield breaks out and runs to the door of an empty chapel next door, calling for his Master.

Chapter VIII of Bram Stoker's Dracula, performed by a full cast.

Richian Presents: Dracula is Bram Stoker's 1897 novel as a full-cast audio drama, told in the letters and diaries he wrote it in. The voices are AI. Casting, direction and the cut are by Rich and Adrian.

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Continue to Chapter 9

8 August. A cutting from The Dailygraph.

A storm comes out of a calm sky and drives a Russian schooner straight into Whitby harbour. Her captain is dead, lashed to the wheel with a crucifix in his hands. As she grounds, a huge dog leaps from the deck and runs up the cliff toward the churchyard.

Her only cargo is wooden boxes full of earth. Her log, out of Varna, records a crew vanishing one man at a time, and a stranger aboard that nobody can find.

Chapter VII of Bram Stoker's Dracula, performed by a full cast.

Richian Presents: Dracula is Bram Stoker's 1897 novel as a full-cast audio drama, told in the letters and diaries he wrote it in. The voices are AI. Casting, direction and the cut are by Rich and Adrian.

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Continue to Chapter 8

24 July. Whitby.

Mina joins Lucy at the seaside and they take their seat in the clifftop churchyard, where an old sailor named Mr. Swales tells them half the graves are empty and the stones are full of lies. The bench they like best sits on a suicide's grave.

Jonathan still hasn't written. When a letter finally comes, it's one line long.

Back at the asylum, Dr. Seward watches Renfield feed flies to spiders and spiders to sparrows, and wonders what he'd like to feed the sparrows to.

Chapter VI of Bram Stoker's Dracula, performed by a full cast.

Richian Presents: Dracula is Bram Stoker's 1897 novel as a full-cast audio drama, told in the letters and diaries he wrote it in. The voices are AI. Casting, direction and the cut are by Rich and Adrian.

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Continue to Chapter 7

9 May. Letters.

A long way from Transylvania, Mina Murray and her friend Lucy Westenra trade letters about work, holidays and men. Lucy has news: three proposals in a single day.

One of the men she turns down, Dr. John Seward, goes back to his asylum and starts keeping his diary on a phonograph. His most interesting patient is a man named Renfield.

Chapter V of Bram Stoker's Dracula, performed by a full cast.

Richian Presents: Dracula is Bram Stoker's 1897 novel as a full-cast audio drama, told in the letters and diaries he wrote it in. The voices are AI. Casting, direction and the cut are by Rich and Adrian.

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| Continue to Chapter 6

25 June. Morning.

Carts in the courtyard. Great wooden boxes filled with soil. Letters Harker is told to write and date weeks ahead, so that whatever happens to him happens quietly.

He climbs down the castle wall to find where the Count sleeps by day. He finds him. He has a shovel in his hands and one chance to use it.

Chapter IV of Bram Stoker's Dracula, performed by a full cast.

Richian Presents: Dracula is Bram Stoker's 1897 novel as a full-cast audio drama, told in the letters and diaries he wrote it in. The voices are AI. Casting, direction and the cut are by Rich and Adrian.

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| Continue to Chapter 5

8 May. Still here.

Every door is locked. Harker is a guest who cannot leave, so he starts opening the rooms he was told to stay out of.

The Count warned him never to fall asleep anywhere else in the castle. He does. Three women are waiting, and what happens next is interrupted by something worse.

Chapter III of Bram Stoker's Dracula, performed by a full cast.

Richian Presents: Dracula is Bram Stoker's 1897 novel as a full-cast audio drama, told in the letters and diaries he wrote it in. The voices are AI. Casting, direction and the cut are by Rich and Adrian.

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| Continue to Chapter 4

5 May. The castle.

Harker's host is courteous, well read, and very curious about a house for sale in England. He asks careful questions late into the night, and he is gone before the sun comes up.

There are no servants. There are no mirrors. Harker writes it all down — and then he cuts himself shaving.

Chapter II of Bram Stoker's Dracula, performed by a full cast.

Richian Presents: Dracula is Bram Stoker's 1897 novel as a full-cast audio drama, told in the letters and diaries he wrote it in. The voices are AI. Casting, direction and the cut are by Rich and Adrian.

Hear every chapter a week early: richian.ai/dracula |
Watch on YouTube: youtube.com/@RichianStudios | 
Continue to Chapter 3