Dracula

Written by Bram Stoker

Narrated by Gildart Jackson

Chills race up and down young solicitor Jonathan Harker’s spine as he enters the eerie castle of a Transylvanian count. His host, Count Dracula, is a curious creature that becomes enamored with the photograph of Harker’s fiancee, Mina. Dracula decides he must find the enchanting Mina and have her as his own. He boards a boat and makes the long journey to find Mina as the ship’s crew mysteriously disappears one by one. Van Helsing, called to care for Mina’s friend Lucy, senses there is something different about Dracula. Mina is drawn to Dracula’s seduction and tries to fight this overwhelming power. But can she?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dreamscape Media
• Release date: Aug 25, 2015
• ISBN: 9781666590227

Bram Stoker

Bram Stoker (1847-1912) was an Irish novelist. Born in Dublin, Stoker suffered from an unknown illness as a young boy before entering school at the age of seven. He would later remark that the time he spent bedridden enabled him to cultivate his imagination, contributing to his later success as a writer. He attended Trinity College, Dublin from 1864, graduating with a BA before returning to obtain an MA in 1875. After university, he worked as a theatre critic, writing a positive review of acclaimed Victorian actor Henry Irving’s production of Hamlet that would spark a lifelong friendship and working relationship between them. In 1878, Stoker married Florence Balcombe before moving to London, where he would work for the next 27 years as business manager of Irving’s influential Lyceum Theatre. Between his work in London and travels abroad with Irving, Stoker befriended such artists as Oscar Wilde, Walt Whitman, Hall Caine, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In 1895, having published several works of fiction and nonfiction, Stoker began writing his masterpiece Dracula (1897) while vacationing at the Kilmarnock Arms Hotel in Cruden Bay, Scotland. Stoker continued to write fiction for the rest of his life, achieving moderate success as a novelist. Known more for his association with London theatre during his life, his reputation as an artist has grown since his death, aided in part by film and television adaptations of Dracula, the enduring popularity of the horror genre, and abundant interest in his work from readers and scholars around the world.

Reviews for Dracula

[María Calleja · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Una historia impresionante y una narración a la altura de la historia.

[Eva Matijevic · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Book started off great - Johnathan’s experiences in Transilvania and Lucy’s awful fate were as good introduction into a classic horror as you can hope to get. However, as the plot gets underway there is a certain feeling like the Stoker wanted to finish the book as soon as possible so certain things feel hurried. And I understand that the second part of the novel is set in much smaller time frame, plus there is much more action involved, but that coupled with some very histerical way of describing an overall anxiety felt by the characters left me feeling second hand embarrassment throughout the last couple of paragraphs.

The narrator, however, did a great job and all I have to send his way is praise.

[quint · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

What a joyous journey. Thank you. You voice was very pleasant.