Gruselkabinett, Folge 16: Draculas Gast

Geschrieben von Bram Stoker

Erzählt von Simon Jäger, Melanie Pukaß und Joachmin Höppner

Jonathan Harker, ein junger Rechtsanwalt aus England, ist unterwegs zum Grafen Dracula, um diesen bezüglich des Erwerbs eines Anwesens in London zu beraten. Auf der Reise gerät er in die Nähe eines von der Bevölkerung plötzlich verlassenen Dorfes. Die Neugier des jungen, verwegenen Mannes ist geweckt und alle Mahnungen des verängstigten Kutschers, den verfluchten Ort besonders in der Walpurgisnacht zu meiden, sind vergebens ...

• Sprache: Deutsch
• Herausgeber: Titania Medien
• Erscheinungsdatum: 8. Dez. 2017

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.