Bram Stoker Read by David Horovitch COMPLETE Jamie Parker CLASSICS UNABRIDGED Joseph Kloska Alison Pettitt and Cast

Bram Stoker Read by David Horovitch COMPLETE Jamie Parker CLASSICS UNABRIDGED Joseph Kloska Alison Pettitt and cast

For a century Bram Stoker’s Dracula has reigned supreme as the undisputed masterpiece of horror writing. We have all grown up beneath the shadow of the elegant Count, at once an attractive, brutal and erotic creature of the night. In 1897 Bram Stoker wrote a story expressing the most persistent nightmare of the human condition. Take this opportunity to dream again…

Cast David Horovitch Van Helsing Jamie Parker Jonathan Harker Joseph Kloska Dr Seward Alison Pettitt Mina Clare Corbett Lucy Westenra and Sister Agatha John Foley Various characters David Thorpe Various characters

Total running time: 16:59:25 • 14 CDs View our catalogue online at n-ab.com/cat

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1 1-1 Dracula 8:22 29 3-8 Mina Murray’s Journal. 26 July: I am anxious… 8:43 2 1-2 4 May: I found that my landlord… 3:38 30 3-9 Chapter VII: Cutting from ‘The Dailygraph,’… 8:51 3 1-3 5 May: The Castle – The grey of the morning… 6:20 31 3-10 The rays of the searchlight were kept fixed… 6:17 4 1-4 As we wound on our endless way… 6:32 32 3-11 Whitby. 9 August: The sequel to the strange… 3:26 5 1-5 Whilst he was speaking the horses began… 5:26 33 4-1 Log of the ‘Demeter’: Varna to Whitby 7:53 6 1-6 In a few minutes, however, my own ears… 6:27 34 4-2 3 August: At midnight I went… 7:40 7 1-7 Chapter II: Jonathan Harker’s Journal… 7:12 35 4-3 10 August: The funeral of the poor sea-captain… 3:23 8 1-8 The light and warmth and the Count’s… 5:45 36 4-4 Chapter VIII: Mina Murray’s Journal 8:28 9 1-9 7 May: It is again early morning… 6:53 37 4-5 Fortune favoured us, and we got home… 4:37 10 1-10 This led to much conversation… 8:48 38 4-6 14 August: On the East Cliff… 8:36 11 1-11 It was the better part of an hour… 7:04 39 4-7 Mina Murray’s Journal. 18 August:… 6:41 12 2-1 Chapter III: Jonathan Harker’s Journal… 9:07 40 4-8 Dr Seward’s Diary. 19 August… 7:45 13 2-2 12 May: Let me begin with facts… 8:54 41 4-9 Chapter IX: Letter, Mina Harker… 9:00 14 2-3 Later: I endorse the last words written… 7:54 42 4-10 Dr Seward’s Diary. 20 August… 8:55 15 2-4 Later: the Morning of 16 May… 8:04 43 5-1 Letter from Dr Seward to Arthur Holmwood. 6:48 16 2-5 But at that instant, another sensation … 3:51 44 5-2 Letter, Dr Seward to Hon. Arthur Holmwood. 5:31 17 2-6 Chapter IV: Jonathan Harker’s Journal… 7:47 45 5-3 Dr Seward’s Diary. 4 September. 6:05 18 2-7 31 May: This morning when I woke… 8:26 46 5-4 Chapter X: Letter, Dr Seward… 6:34 19 2-8 25 June, morning: No man knows… 6:47 47 5-5 I used my knowledge of this phase… 9:00 20 2-9 29 June: To-day is the date of my last letter… 6:11 48 5-6 When Arthur had gone I went back… 5:49 21 2-10 30 June, morning: These may be the last… 8:00 49 5-7 9 September: I was pretty tired and worn… 8:37 22 3-1 Chapter V: Letter from Miss Mina Murray… 5:38 50 5-8 Lucy chatted with me freely… 8:04 23 3-2 Letter, Lucy Westenra to Mina Murray. 3:45 51 5-9 Chapter XI: Lucy Westenra’s Diary 9:08 24 3-3 ‘Evening. Arthur has just gone…’ 7:14 52 5-10 ‘The Pall Mall Gazette’, 18 September… 8:43 25 3-4 Dr Seward’s Diary. (Kept in phonograph.) 3:53 53 6-1 ‘Now, Mr Bilder, can you account in any way…’ 8:03 26 3-5 Chapter VI: Mina Murray’s Journal 7:51 54 6-2 Telegram, Van Helsing, Antwerp, to Seward… 8:08 27 3-6 I could see from the old fellow’s… 7:26 55 6-3 Chapter XII: Dr Seward’s Diary 8:02 28 3-7 Dr Seward’s Diary. 5 June… 9:09 56 6-4 Van Helsing called in one of the women… 5:57 57 6-5 In the hall I met Quincey Morris… 8:46 104 10-11 Later: I went after my round to Van Helsing… 4:57 58 6-6 Letter, Mina Harker to Lucy Westenra. 9:27 105 11-1 Chapter XXI: Dr Seward’s Diary 7:46 59 6-7 Letter, Mina Harker to Lucy Westenra. 6:01 106 11-2 ‘I’ll be quiet, Doctor. Tell them to take off…’ 8:03 60 6-8 At six o’clock Van Helsing came to relieve me. 7:19 107 11-3 The two men sitting on the bed stood up… 7:15 61 6-9 Chapter XIII: Dr Seward’s Diary, Continued 3:29 108 11-4 For a few seconds she lay… 5:50 62 6-10 Before turning in we went to look at poor Lucy. 6:16 109 11-5 I told him exactly what had happened… 4:56 63 7-1 I must have slept long and soundly… 7:36 110 11-6 ‘I took the sleeping draught…’ 7:59 64 7-2 I left him in the drawing-room… 5:00 111 11-7 Chapter XXII: Jonathan Harker’s Journal 5:40 65 7-3 Mina Harker’s Journal. 22 September… 6:24 112 11-8 The poor dear grew white as death… 4:55 66 7-4 Dr Seward’s Diary. 22 September: It is all over. 8:56 113 11-9 ‘And your police, they would interfere…’ 7:06 67 7-5 And now we are all scattered… 4:36 114 11-10 Breakfast was a strange meal to us all. 7:27 68 7-6 Chapter XIV: Mina Harkers’s Journal 6:33 115 11-11 Piccadilly, 12:30 o’clock… 5:40 69 7-7 Later: He has come and gone. 9:01 116 12-1 Chapter XXIII: Dr Seward’s Diary 6:38 70 7-8 ‘He thought he saw some one…’ 4:51 117 12-2 Whilst he was speaking we were startled… 6:08 71 7-9 Letter (by hand), Van Helsing to Mrs Harker. 7:50 118 12-3 Suddenly with a single bound… 7:06 72 7-10 Dr Seward’s Diary. 26 September… 5:30 119 12-4 We had a sort of perfunctory supper together… 8:06 73 7-11 Let me tell you, my friend… 6:13 120 12-5 Later: I must have fallen asleep… 9:55 74 8-1 Chapter XV: Dr Seward’s Diary, Continued 8:15 121 12-6 Chapter XXIV: Dr Seward’s Phonograph… 4:44 75 8-2 Van Helsing went about his work systematically. 7:07 122 12-7 5 October, 5 pm: Our meeting for report. 7:10 76 8-3 27 September: It was two o’clock… 6:09 123 12-8 When Dr Van Helsing had done speaking… 7:32 77 8-4 I waited a considerable time for Van Helsing… 3:54 124 12-9 Dr Seward’s Diary. 5 October: We all rose early… 6:28 78 8-5 Note left by Van Helsing in his portmanteau… 5:20 125 12-10 Later: At the very outset of our meeting… 7:18 79 8-6 It was evident that he recognised my return… 8:27 126 13-1 6 October, morning: Another surprise. 6:20 80 8-7 Chapter XVI: Dr Seward’s Diary, Continued 7:56 127 13-2 Chapter XXV: Dr Seward’s Diary 5:53 81 8-8 There was a long spell of silence… 8:22 128 13-3 Quincey was the first to rise after the pause. 6:27 82 8-9 29 September, night: A little before twelve… 8:59 129 13-4 Jonathan Harker’s Journal. 15 October, Varna… 8:03 83 8-10 The Thing in the coffin writhed… 6:49 130 13-5 25 October, Noon: No news yet… 6:35 84 9-1 Chapter XVII: Dr Seward’s Diary, Continued 8:26 131 13-6 ‘Wonderful woman!’ murmured the Professor. 7:00 85 9-2 Dr Seward’s Diary. 29 September… 6:45 132 13-7 ‘What does this tell us? Not much? No!’ 9:05 86 9-3 Dr Seward’s Diary. 30 September… 9:10 133 13-8 Chapter XXVI: Dr Seward’s Diary 4:46 87 9-4 Mina Harker’s Journal. 30 September… 8:19 134 13-9 Later: Sunset has come and gone. 5:00 88 9-5 Chapter XVIII: Dr Seward’s Diary 7:19 135 13-10 Jonathan Harker’s Journal. 30 October… 6:51 89 9-6 When I went to the station… 9:19 136 13-11 Mina Harker’s Journal. 30 October, evening… 7:44 90 9-7 Whilst he was speaking… 7:53 137 14-1 Mina Harker’s Journal, continued. 6:48 91 9-8 ‘Thus when we find the habitation…’ 5:33 138 14-2 Later: Oh, it did me good to see the way… 6:29 92 9-9 Dr Seward’s Diary. 1 October, 4 am… 6:59 139 14-3 2 November, morning: It is broad daylight. 5:02 93 9-10 I had a growing conviction that this sudden… 6:07 140 14-4 Chapter XXVII: Mina Harker’s Journal 4:41 94 10-1 Chapter XIX: Jonathan Harker’s Journal 6:16 141 14-5 Memorandum by Abraham Van Helsing. 8:26 95 10-2 The light from the tiny lamps… 7:09 142 14-6 5 November, morning: Let me be accurate… 7:33 96 10-3 Lord Godalming lifted one of the dogs… 6:04 143 14-7 ‘No! No! Do not go without. Here you are safe!’ 6:49 97 10-4 Dr Seward’s Diary. 1 October… 7:16 144 14-8 Dr Van Helsing’s Memorandum. 5 November… 6:21 98 10-5 I can’t quite remember how I fell asleep… 6:56 145 14-9 By this time I had searched all the tombs… 5:08 99 10-6 Chapter XX: Jonathan Harker’s Journal 4:31 146 14-10 Mina Harker’s Journal. 6 November… 8:28 100 10-7 2 October, evening: A long and trying… 7:23 147 14-11 The leader, with a quick movement of his rein… 8:33 101 10-8 There was at present nothing to be learned … 6:58 102 10-9 Dr Seward’s Diary. 1 October: I am puzzled… 6:23 103 10-10 ‘A nice time you’ll have some time…’ 5:19

Total running time: 16:59:25 • 14 CDs

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CD catalogue no.: NA0190 Digital catalogue no.: NA0190D CD ISBN: 978-184-379-873-6 Digital ISBN: 978-1-84379-874-3 Cast David Horovitch Van Helsing Jamie Parker Jonathan Harker Joseph Kloska Dr Seward Alison Pettitt Mina Clare Corbett Lucy Westenra and Sister Agatha John Foley Various characters David Thorpe Various characters

Clare Corbett was the Carleton Hobbs winner in Jamie Parker is best known for his roles in the films 2000 and since then has been heard on BBC Radio The History Boys and Valkyrie and the television drama Repertory and seen in regional theatres. She is a Van Gogh: Painted with Words. He has also performed familiar face to television viewers having appeared in the television series Foyle’s War, The Hour, Silent in The Bill, Fastnet, Spooks, Casualty and Final Witness and Silk. His theatre credits include Henry Demand. She has also read Great Scientists and their IV Parts I & II and Henry V at Shakespeare’s Globe Discoveries, Richardson’s Pamela and Shakespeare’s and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead at the Venus and Adonis for Naxos AudioBooks. Haymarket Theatre. He has also read Hardy’s Far From the Madding Crowd and Under the Greenwood Tree John Foley has worked as an actor in theatres for Naxos AudioBooks. throughout the UK and US. He has published reference books and children’s stories, and written Alison Pettitt studied Biochemistry at University and voiced more than 600 scripts for BBC World College London, and, after a spell of TIE (Theatre Service and Radio 4; other radio includes numerous in Education), turned her attention towards acting. adaptations of works by writers such as Brecht, Ibsen, She has performed with the Radio Drama Company John Osborne, Alan Bennett and Victoria Wood. He and has worked extensively in theatre and television. has also produced a number of audiobooks for Naxos Her theatre performances include The Glass Slipper AudioBooks and Random House. (Southwark), As You Like It (Creation Theatre), The Nutcracker at (West Yorkshire Playhouse) and Taking David Horovitch has had a long and distinguished Steps (Windsor and Sonning). Television includes career. His appearances in the theatre include many Threesome for Big Talk Productions, Poems from in the West End, the National Theatre and the RSC. Other Cultures for the BBC and AS Guru for BBC On television he is best known for his performance Education. Radio includes Birdsong, The Hitchhiker’s as Inspector Slack in Miss Marple. Among his many Guide to the Galaxy, Smiley’s People, I Claudius, Trilby readings for Naxos AudioBooks are Lampedusa’s and The Archers. The Leopard, Dickens’s Nicholas Nickleby, Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. David Thorpe was born in Sheffield, grew up on the Isle of Wight, and has lived in London (mostly East) all Joseph Kloska was born and raised in North his adult life. He has appeared in numerous plays in rep Cornwall. He studied History and French at University and on tour, most recently as The Fool in a production College London and then attended RADA. He won of King Lear directed by Jonathan Miller. Twice a the BBC Carleton Hobbs Radio Award in 2006 and member of the BBC Radio Drama Company, he has has appeared in over 100 plays, readings and live been heard in over a hundred radio plays and narrated broadcasts for the BBC. He has worked extensively in over 400 audiobooks. David has also conceived and theatre, television and film; recent work includes the performed in two one-man shows: Confessions of a film The Riot Club and theatre performances for the Toytown Revolutionary and This Way Up!. Arcola Theatre (The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari, Moby- Dick), the Orange Tree Theatre (It Just Stopped) and the Royal Shakespeare Company (The Christmas Truce).

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