We have all grown up under the shadow of the elegant count, at once and attractive, brutal and erotic creature of the night. This Classic Horror Story expressing the most persistent nightmare of the human condition, is brought to life by a skilled and imaginative cast, coupled with authentic 'monster music' from the golden ages of 1940s horror movies, a "Dracula" ballet score and various sound effects, to create a gripping aural experience.
Dracula
Bram Stoker
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09.17.07
Bram Stoker, Dracula
2007 | Label: Naxos AudioBooks
It was only supposed to be a simple real estate transaction.
With so many variations on the theme "vampire" to be found at your local bookstore, it's all too easy to forget what started this bloodsucking phenomenon — and how Bram Stoker's 1897 opus was more about the interactions of its characters than about the idiosyncrasies of vampire lore. Written as a series of letters, Dracula is told primarily from the point of view of Englishman Jonathan Harker, caught in the Count's web of nocturnal activities after a visit to the Carpathian mountain castle for a simple real estate transaction. The mad acolyte Renfield and the vampire hunter Van Helsing are just a few of whom Harker encounters in his increasingly terrifying adventure, made more so when his fiancee Mina catches Dracula's eye — and lands herself in danger. Richard E. Grant gives the appropriate haughty touch to the novel that makes Harker's epistolary narration even more spine-tingling.