Die schwarze Serie, Folge 2: Dracula

Geschrieben von Bram Stoker

Erzählt von Wolfgang Kieling, Peter Versten, Albert Johannes und 6 weiteren

Immobilienmakler Jonathan Harker, geschäftlich unterwegs in Transsylvanien, folgt der Einladung des Grafen Dracula. Bereits kurz nach der Ankunft auf dem Schloss entdeckt er, wer sein Gastgeber wirklich ist: Dracula, der Fürst der Vampire. Dracula überlistet Jonathan und reist blutdürstend nach London ...

• Sprache: Deutsch
• Herausgeber: Highscore Music
• Erscheinungsdatum: 22. Feb. 2019

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.