Dracula

Geschrieben von Bram Stoker

Erzählt von Jacob Weigert, Katharina Thalbach, Bernd Stephan und 7 weiteren

"Ich bin Dracula und begrüße Sie, Herr Harker, in meinem Hause. Kommen Sie herein, Sie bedürfen des Essens und der Ruhe, die Nachtluft ist recht kühl. Es ist schon spät und meine Dienerschaft ist nicht mehr verfügbar. Lassen Sie also mich für Ihre Bequemlichkeit sorgen."

Jonathan Harker, ein Londoner Anwalt, wird diese unheimliche Einladung niemals vergessen können. Sein Aufenthalt auf Schloss Dracula soll nur der Auftakt einer blutigen Mission sein, die den Grafen nach London führen wird. Doch der Vampirjäger Van Helsing stellt sich dem Untoten entgegen. In Reiseberichten, Briefen und Tagebüchern lassen zwölf Sprecher die Zuhörer an einer schauerlichen Jagd teilhaben, die den Autor Bram Stoker einst zum Urvater des Vampirromans machte.

Nach dem gleichnamigen Buch aus dem Deutschen Taschenbuch Verlag.

• Sprache: Deutsch
• Herausgeber: Goyalit
• Erscheinungsdatum: 14. Aug. 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.