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 = Downloads (M4B chapters or MP3 files) = CDs (disc–track) 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.