Dracula [Audible Edition]

By: Bram Stoker

Narrated by: Alan Cumming, Tim Curry, Simon Vance, Katherine Kellgren, Susan Duerden, John Lee, Graeme Malcolm, Steven Crossley

Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins

Publisher's summary

Audie Award, Distinguished Achievement in Production, 2013

Audie Award, Multi-voiced Performance, 2013

Audie Award Nominee, Classic, 2013

Because of the widespread awareness of the story of the evil Transylvanian count and the success of numerous film adaptations that have been created over the years, the modern audience hasn't had a chance to truly appreciate the unknowing dread that readers would have felt when reading Bram Stoker's original 1897 manuscript. Most modern productions employ campiness or sound effects to try to bring back that gothic tension, but we've tried something different. By returning to Stoker's original storytelling structure - a series of letters and journal entries voiced by Jonathan Harker, Dr. Van Helsing, and other characters - with an all-star cast of narrators, we've sought to recapture its originally intended horror and power.

This production of Dracula is presented by what is possibly the best assemblage of narrating talent ever for one audiobook: Emmy Award nominees Alan Cumming and Tim Curry plus an all-star cast of Audie award-winners Simon Vance (The Millenium Trilogy), Katherine Kellgren (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies), Susan Duerden (The Tiger’s Wife), John Lee (Supergods) and customer favorites Graeme Malcolm (Skippy Dies), Steven Crossley (The Oxford Time Travel series), Simon Prebble (The Baroque Cycle), James Adams (Letters to a Young Contrarian), Nicola Barber (The Rose Garden), Victor Villar-Hauser (Fun Inc.), and Marc Vietor (1Q84). These stellar narrators have been cast as follows:

Alan Cumming as Dr. Seward
Simon Vance as Jonathan Harker
Katy Kellgren as Mina Murray/Harker
Susan Duerden as Lucy Westenra
Tim Curry as Van Helsing
Graeme Malcolm as Dailygraph correspondent
Steven Crossley as Zookeeper’s account and reporter
Simon Prebble as Varna
James Adams as Patrick Hennessey
Nicola Barber as Sister Agatha
Victor Villar-Hauser as Arthur Holmwood
Marc Vietor as Quincey Morris
John Lee as Introductory paragraph, various letters

Public Domain (P)2014 Audible, Inc.

Critic reviews

"Listening to this full-cast performance turns out to be remarkably suspenseful and chilling…The superlative cast lends this powerful production the diversity that is required by the structure of the novel…Each actor employs various accents, infusing into the characters vibrant emphasis, urgency, and dread." ( AudioFile)

I love this reading!

I listen to this reading every year around Halloween. I love to voice acting in this book and think it adds so much to the story.

A classic story with a perfect cast

A classic story with a stellar cast wich only enhances the narrative. Mina's actress was my favorite

This is my favorite version

I found the book a struggle to read. This was much easier, and the various readers playing the characters reading their own letters made it much more interesting. It's an important book, and it is worth reading. I've read the print version, and I enjoyed it, but not as much as this.

Brought back to life

I've read the physical copy many times and loved it. However, I enjoyed this more because the narrators really brought the story to life.

Surprisingly entertaining

I never read Dracula before, though I heard about the story many times, and honestly I didn't expect it to be so entertainig. Though the part of it is to be attributed to the stellar performance of an entire cast, I also found that the somewhat archaic style of writing in form of journals and letters made this dark story easier to read. The "distance" from the narrative made readable even the scenes that would otherwise be too gory and stomach-turning for my personal preference, while the diary format still allowed me to get to know the intimate thoughts of the main characters and care about their destinies.

A great pace

this was so good, I went out to him bought it in hardcover for my physical collection.
It had such a good, steady and exciting pace to it!

good for work

very good story. although a bit long winded and unexpectedly very emotional. and anticlimactic

Hollywood did a great service to this novel

Great performances/readings, but Stoker's narrative really drags in places - I'd never read it, and was surprised to realize that the whole tale is told in a series of letters and journal entries... I thought it was interesting that in the novel, Dracula's got bushy white hair and eyebrows, and his teeth are visible from the start.

Starker's tale of his time in Transylvania at the beginning of the book is intriguing, but then it slows to a crawl through Lucy's story...gets better right at the end when they go after Dracula. This is one of the few moments when Hollywood's take on a novel helped the story a LOT...

Enticing and Dramatic

I wanted to listen to Dracula after watching a Netflix special that had a rendition of Bram Stoker’s story of Dracula. I wanted to know what really happened to know the real facts about Dracula. I can not be anymore pleased and satisfied with this listen. There is mystery, love, loss, and the way it is written letter by letter putting the listener in the shoes ever character. I tip my hat to the great narrators who’s voices made all the most believable.

Best way to enjoy this classic story

The voice acting for this was phenomenal. This is probably the best audiobook I've read.