Dracula by Bram Stoker | Read by Mark Gatiss | Penguin Audiobooks
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- Listen to the first chapter of the terrifying Bram Stoker classic, Dracula, read by Mark Gatiss. Download the full audiobook here: adbl.co/3yUmbgg
This Penguin Classic is narrated by Mark Gatiss, who also wrote the screenplay for the critically acclaimed BBC adaptation. Gatiss has also had an extensive acting career including roles in Sherlock, which he wrote alongside Steven Moffat, The League of Gentlemen and Wolf Hall.
When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes a series of horrific discoveries about his client. Soon afterwards, various bizarre incidents unfold in England: an apparently unmanned ship is wrecked off the coast of Whitby; a young woman discovers strange puncture marks on her neck, and the inmate of a lunatic asylum raves about the 'Master' and his imminent arrival. In Dracula, Bram Stoker created one of the great masterpieces of the horror genre, brilliantly evoking a nightmare world of vampires and vampire hunters and also illuminating the dark corners of Victorian sexuality and desire.
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I've read Dracula countless times.... It's old,nonsensical in the modern day and very unscientific but yet,Dracula never ceased to amaze me...This novel is always the most legendary Gothic Horror ever...
@@ijn876 Well,what type of Books do you like?
The cast from the League of Gentlemen should do some real classic, gothic horror movies, Dr.Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Lot 249, Frankenstein, Dracula. They would be fantastic.
Gatiss has the most beautiful voice ❤️
Everything he creates is brilliant!
This is fantastic. I love these classic excerpts!
Doing this book for my Dissertation, so happy I found this!
Best narration of Dracula I have ever heard. 😊👍❤️
There's also an excellent audio version with Tim Curry as Van Helsing, Simon Vance as Johnathan Harker, and Alan Cumming as Seward. HIGHLY recommend.
WHERE CAN I FIND THAT?🤯@@donaldwheatoniii1809
I always love the cameraderie of Dracula's opponents. I wish there was more of that so called "old fasioned" in this modern world
00:38 (if you want to skip the introduction)
This reading is rather good, but the Dracula reading by Robert Powell, produced by the BBC in 1992, is much more excitingly performed! Unfortunately, this Robert Powell reading is not available on the Internet and the audio cassettes from the BBC are also no longer on sale. It would be great if someone could also upload the Dracula reading by Robert Powell on UA-cam.
@AMTHello, thank you for your reply. I don't have the tapes but it would be great if you could find them and put the content on youtube!
Someone on youtube posted it recently! If you search up "robert powell dracula" it should appear. It's posted by the channel "mysterious magpie."
@@aaartemisss Thank you very much for this valuable information!!!
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Imagine hearing this when it was first published and the name Dracula had none of it's 20th century pop culture baggage, what sort of man must the name Dracula have conjured in the imaginations of the early readers, certainly not the man who inhabits our own modern sensibilities.
Fabulous narration!
Tumblr is making me read this
Where the rest of this ?
chapter one: 0:44
This is so misleading. You give part of the book and a link for the entire book but that comes with a paid subscription.
Brilliant.
this is perfect!
This is amazing.
Great performance but, I would've picked a chapter more "representative" of the book as a whole.
The passage just as a piece of litertature, written by Stoker of the carriage drive through the Borgo pass and the suspense he creates has never really been captured on film.
@@redstar7292 ???
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Is this the full audio? Because I’ve seen other that are like 18 hours long haha, I do have the book and it does seem pretty long
This is just the first chapter! :)
@@hfollman98 And even then it's an abridged version of chapter 1
You have to pay to get the rest of the book
Is this the full book in one hour ?!?
1st chapter
00:39
09:00
if only your tv version was as good as your narrative of this amazing book.you had an amazing cast but changed it so much..such a shame.it could have been better than the 1977 version the only version to date that comes close to the novel on film.you as a a fan of the novel i really dont understand why you strayed so far from the original sauce..i really do not understand why you had the chance to film a true masterpiece and then completely ruined a classic story with so many changes..such a waste
@ Keith
Agree ! Why the BBC ever decided
that Gattis was to be the face of
Horror and self appointed authority on M R James etc I cannot grasp. Along with Moffat they ripped off every episode of The Twilight Zone and 1950s B
Movies and rehashed them for their version of Dr Who. Thankfully the latest incarnation is
tanking so badly that it will be mercifully put out of its misery .
Great job BBC..
Ive got Covid so isolating, this is just what the Dr ordered.
Not local
37:00
Every May, I make Paprika Hendl.
Me too. And then I drink all the water in my carafe.
Its a shame the recent Dracula on the BBC sucked so bad. Kinda like everything Moffat and/or Gatiss touch. Sherlock and Doctor Who deserved so much better. STOP GIVING THESE MEN TV SHOWS!
Sherlock was a hit in the uk and Mark and Stephens run of dr who was a hit too so
Dracula was incredible what are you talking about
The BBC Dracula was a daring effort that started really well with a terrific first episode with great acting. The second episode was enjoyable but I felt the third episode was a failure. But when people try and create things we should not expect perfection.
@ satasya
Apparently Dr Who viewing figures are going down the pan. Presumably they ran out of plots by other writers which they could
plagiarize ? Either that or there were no boxes left to tick !
yea sorry could not disagree less, Will agree did not enjoy the end of that dracula show.
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@@sidolanters1394 I care
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Gatiss' beautiful voice ❤️
Everything he touches or creates is brilliant!