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Richian Presents: Dracula
by Richian Studios
In 1897, Bram Stoker told Dracula through letters, diaries, telegrams and a ship's log, written by people who didn't understand what they were part of until it was too late. Richian Presents: Dracula is the whole novel as a full-cast audio drama, in the first-person voices Stoker wrote it in. Every character gets their own voice. New chapters twice a week through October, then every Monday until the novel is finished. 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
Episodes
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Chapter 8: Sleepwalker
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...
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Chapter 7: The Log of the Demeter
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.…
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Chapter 6: The Churchyard at Whitby
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...
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Chapter 5: Three Proposals
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....
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Chapter 4: The Boxes of Earth
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…
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Chapter 3: The Women in the Castle
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....
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Chapter 2: The Count's Welcome
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...
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Chapter 1: The Borgo Pass
3 May. Bistritz. Jonathan Harker, a young solicitor from Exeter, is travelling east to close a property sale for a nobleman he has never met. The locals cross themselves when they hear where he is going. One woman presses a crucifix into his hand and begs him not to go. By nightfall he is in a...
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Trailer: Richian Presents Dracula
Dracula was told in letters. Diary entries, telegrams, a ship's log, a doctor's phonograph recordings. Bram Stoker built the whole novel out of documents people wrote while the horror was still happening to them. So we are performing it that way: a full cast, every letter read in the voice of the...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
In 1897, Bram Stoker told Dracula through letters, diaries, telegrams and a ship's log, written by people who didn't understand what they were part of until it was too late.
Richian Presents: Dracula is the whole novel as a full-cast audio drama, in the first-person voices Stoker wrote it in. Every character gets their own voice. New chapters twice a week through October, then every Monday until the novel is finished.
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
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Richian Studios
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In 1897, Bram Stoker told Dracula through letters, diaries, telegrams and a ship's log, written by people who didn't understand what they were part of until it was too late. Richian Presents: Dracula is the whole novel as a full-cast audio drama, in the first-person voices Stoker wrote it in. Every...
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