Dracula: The Danse Macabre

Warning: The following episode contains discussions and depictions of violence, body horror, suicide, physical and psychological abuse, starvation, and death, including graphic depictions of harm caused by insects and burning. It also contains menacing situations, disturbing content, and jump scares. Listener discretion is advised. Episode 4 of 4. February 1896. Robbed of the dirt boxes that sustain him, Count Dracula flees back to Europe, hoping for a chance to regroup and plan his next move. However, he soon finds Mina Harker hot on his heels. As she gives chase across Europe, their deadly game of cat and mouse reaches new heights of tension and danger. And when Mina finally catches up to him, Count Dracula finds himself in a situation he could have never prepared for... Dracula: The Danse Macabre was created by Gabriel Urbina. Tonight’s episode was written and directed by Gabriel Urbina. Based on the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. It stars Evangeline Young as Mina Harker and Peter Coleman as Jonathan Harker. It features original music by Alan Rodi and sound design by Jeffrey Nils Gardner. Script editing by Sarah Shachat. It was recorded by Robby Schwartz at Soho Recording. This has been a Long Story Short Production. * * * Show Website Episode Recording Script Episode Transcript Patreon Interest in learning to write audio fiction? Take Gabriel's Online Classes! Twitter Tumblr Instagram Bluesky Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dracula: The Danse Macabre is off this week, but while we work on our season finale we wanted to share another show we love with all of you. This week: Audacious Machine Creative's fictional chat show World Gone Wrong! Listen to the show on their Apple Podcasts page or on their Spotify feed! Visit their website! Support the show! * * * WORLD GONE WRONG Directed and Edited by Jeffrey Nils Gardner Written by Gabriel Urbina Produced and Created by Jeffrey Nils Gardner and Eleanor Hyde Performed by Hilary Williams and Michael Turrentine Show Art by Karli Fairbanks Theme Song by Olivia & The Lovers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Warning: The following episode contains discussions and depictions of violence, body horror, suicide, imprisonment, torture, improper medical treatment, psychological abuse, chronic physical and mental illness, premature burial, and death. It also features menacing situations, disturbing content, and jump scares. Listener discretion is advised. Episode 3 of 4. September 1893. Now trapped inside Carfax Asylum and at the mercy of Count Dracula, Mina Harker faces danger like never before. But she is taken aback when - rather than kill her - the count offers her an opportunity to save herself... if she can beat him at his own game. Will Mina be able to withstand the horrors of Dracula's asylum? Or will the vampire succeed in his quest to corrupt her and make her the same as he is? Dracula: The Danse Macabre was created by Gabriel Urbina. Tonight’s episode was written by Gabriel Urbina and directed by Sarah Shachat. Based on the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. It stars Evangeline Young as Mina Harker and Peter Coleman as Jonathan Harker. It features original music by Alan Rodi and sound design by Jeffrey Nils Gardner. Tonight’s episode also features Gnossiene No. 1 by Erik Satie. This interpretation of the piece comes to us courtesy of Pixabay. Script editing by Sarah Shachat. It was recorded by Robby Schwartz at Soho Recording. This has been a Long Story Short Production. * * * Show Website Episode Recording Script Episode Transcript Patreon Twitter Tumblr Instagram Bluesky Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dracula: The Danse Macabre is off this week, but while we work on Episode 3 we wanted to share a show we love with all of you. This week: Chris and Jen Sugden's steampunk detective comedy adventure Victoriocity! Listen to the show on their Apple Podcasts page or on their Spotify feed! Visit their website! Learn more about High Vaultage, the first Victoriocity tie-in novel! Support the show! A transcript for this first episode can be found here. * * * A transcript for the message at the top of today's episode: Gabriel Urbina: Hey everyone. Series creator Gabriel Urbina here. I'm back in the feed because... while the count and Mina may have the week off, that doesn't mean that all of you don't need excellent audio fiction content to listen to while they get ready for Episode 3. So I'm here to tell you about another show that I love, and which - if you're enjoying our take on Dracula so far? - you should definitely check out.  Gabriel Urbina: This week, I want to tell you all about Victoriocity, the steam-punk comedy mystery detective thriller from Chris and Jen Sugden. Starring the amazing duo of Tom Crowley and Layla Katib as sardonic Inspector Archibald Fleet and intrepid reporter Clara Entwhistle, the series follows their adventures in the Even Greater London of 1887. Ruled over by the mechanized Queen Victoria, Even Greater London is a place of amazing inventions, dark villainy, and high adventure.  Gabriel Urbina: Victoriocity is one of those shows where.. you don't just listen to it, it kind of becomes your whole personality for a while after you first encounter it. The performances are pitch perfect, the writing is sparkling, the whole thing just brims with affection for the literature and storytelling tropes of the Victorian era, and it is, I cannot underline this enough, one of the funniest podcasts out there. And there's no time like the present to get obsessed with Victoriocity, since their first tie-in novel, High Vaultage, just came out. So for anyone that's been looking for a... Terry Pratchett-esquie steampunk adventure... well, tell you what, I'm going to do you a favor right now and play the first episode of Victoriocity for you.  Gabriel Urbina: So sit back, relax, enjoy, and I'll see you all back here next week for Episode 3 of Dracula: The Danse Macabre, Experimental Purposes.  * * * VICTORIOCTY Written by Chris Sugden and Jen Sugden Directed by Nathan Peter Grassi FEATURING Tom Crowley as Inspector Fleet Layla Katib as Clara Entwhistle Peter Rae as The Narrator Gemma Arrowsmith as Augusta Bell Richard Soames as Doctor Salik Christian Flint as The Fisherman Chris Sugden as Chief Inspector Keller Jackie Smith-Wood as Ludy Lucretia Molly Beth-Morosa as Miss Waverley George McLean as The Ticket Inspector Additional voices by Ana Armas Romero, Edwina Christie, Daniel D. Jordan, Jamie Potton and Martha Zumack. Produced by Dominic Hargreaves Original music by Jon Ouin Production management by Fiona Sinclair Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Warning: This episode contains discussions and depictions of violence, body horror, suicide, gaslighting, imprisonment, and death, as well as menacing situations, disturbing content, and jump scares. Listener discretion is advised. Episode 2 of 4. August 1893. Schoolteacher Mina Harker lives her life on a tightrope, balancing her duties to her work, her social life, and her extracurricular interest in the occult. Her existence - and that of her best friend, Lucy Westenra - is disturbed by the arrival of a mysterious ship on the shores of New York City. Soon, they both find themselves drawing the attention of the newly arrived Count Dracula, who wastes no time in setting his evil plans for the new world into motion. Can Mina stand up to the count's dark designs? And what will happen when the ancient vampire finds himself finally facing a worthy adversary? Dracula: The Danse Macabre was created by Gabriel Urbina. Tonight’s episode was written and directed by Gabriel Urbina. Based on the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. It stars Evangeline Young as Mina Harker and Peter Coleman as Jonathan Harker. It features original music by Alan Rodi and sound design by Jeffrey Nils Gardner. Script editing by Sarah Shachat. It was recorded by Robby Schwartz at Soho Recording. This has been a Long Story Short Production. * * * Show Website Episode Recording Script Episode Transcript Patreon Twitter Tumblr Instagram Bluesky Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dracula: The Danse Macabre is off this week, but while we work on Episode 2 we wanted to share a show we love with all of you. This week: Shipwrecked Comedy's hilarious noir adventure The Case of the Greater Gatsby! Listen to the whole show on their Spotify feed. Visit Shipwrecked Comedy's Youtube Page. Support their work on their Patreon! A transcript for this first episode can be found here. * * * A transcript for the message at the top of today's episode: Gabriel Urbina: Hi everyone. Series creator Gabriel Urbina here. Dracula: The Danse Macabre releases every two weeks, and this is one of the weeks when we... don't have a new episode out for you all. I'm sorry! But - but - but... I do have something to make it up to you. During these off weeks, I want to share with all of you episodes of other fiction podcasts that I love, and which I think you'll love as well. Think of it as... companion pieces to Dracula. If you've liked what you've heard of our show so far, you'll probably like these shows and should check them out. Gabriel Urbina: The first podcast that I want to highlight here is The Case of the Greater Gatsby, by the fine folks over at Shipwrecked Comedy. It is a hilarious take on the conventions of film noir, as we follow the adventures of taciturn private eye Ford Phillips and his fast-talking partner Fig Wineshine. The two of them have to delve into the muck of 1940's Hollywood as they try to solve the murder of acclaimed novelist, F. Scott Fitzgerald.  Gabriel Urbina: Now, just from that description, you can probably already tell why I love this show. It's fast, it's snappy, it's got great dialogue, and it blends the lines between a literary adaptation and historical fiction in all of these really smart, creative ways. But I don't think anything I could say here would properly convey just how charming the characters are, how genuinely gripping the mystery plotline in the show is, and just how many fun, clever things they do with the audio format. So, instead of trying and failing, I want to just play for you the first episode of The Case of the Greater Gatsby. How does that sound? Good? All right, I thought so too. I am going to leave you now in the capable hands of Fig and Ford, as they take you away to 1940's LA.  Gabriel Urbina: Enjoy, and I'll see you back here next week, for Episode 2 of Dracula, A Stranger in a Strange Land.  * * * THE CASE OF THE GREATER GATSBY Written and Created by Sean Persaud and Sinead Persaud Directed by William J. Stribling FEATURING Sean Persaud as Ford Phillips and Jimmy Stewart Sinead Persaud as Fig Wineshine Tim de la Motte as Archibald Maitland Tom DeTrinis as Robert Leonard Matthew Mercer as Mo Beats Mary Kate Wiles as Vivian Nightingale Joey Richter as Danny Saxman Dante Swain as Bixby Crane Sarah Grace Hart as Wilhelmina Vanderjetski And Christopher Higgins as the Emcee Original music by Dylan Glatthorn Additional music by Kevin Luce Audio recording by Ears Up Studio and Noah Hunt Audio Mixing and Sound Design by Lizzie Goldsmith Executive Producers Paul Komoroski & Michael Walsh Produced by Sean Persaud, Sinead Persaud, and Mary Kate Wiles Special thanks to Kickstarter backers Katie Adamczyk, Ally Brown, Zainab Khan, Shao Chih Kuo, Jane Leach, Avalee Long, Lisel Perrine, Halsea Root, The Rude Mechanicals, Heather Tennant, and Justin Waterman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Warning: This episode contains discussions and depictions of violence, body horror, imprisonment, and death, as well as menacing situations, disturbing content, and jump scares. Viewer discretion is advised. Episode 1 of 4. May 1893. Sent by his superiors to Transylvania to help a member of the local nobility with a real estate purchase, American clerk Jonathan Harker soon finds himself brought to a foreboding castle. There, he meets the mysterious Count Dracula, and learns of his plans to come to America... as well as the darker secrets the count has been keeping for centuries. Can Jonathan find a way to escape Castle Dracula before the Dracula can set his evil plan in motion? And back home in America, is Jonathan's wife Mina ready for the darkness that is headed towards her? Dracula: The Danse Macabre was created by Gabriel Urbina. Tonight’s episode was written and directed by Gabriel Urbina. Based on the novel by Bram Stoker. It stars Evangeline Young as Mina Harker and Peter Coleman as Jonathan Harker. It features original music by Alan Rodi and sound design by Jeffrey Nils Gardner. Tonight’s episode also features Gnossiene No. 1 by Erik Satie. This interpretation of the piece comes to us courtesy of Pixabay. Script editing by Sarah Shachat. It was recorded by Robby Schwartz at Soho Recording. This has been a Long Story Short Production. * * * Show Website Episode Recording Script Episode Transcript Patreon Twitter Tumblr Instagram Bluesky Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Centuries-old vampire Count Dracula leaves his home of Transylvania and comes to the new world, intent on reigning death and destruction upon it. Can Mina Harker and her husband Jonathan find a way to stop him before it’s too late? Bram Stoker’s timeless horror classic returns, reimagined as a four-part audio fiction podcast. But not everything is as it once was or as it seems, so you'll have to listen very carefully as the story unfolds as a dialogue between two of the novel’s iconic characters. Website: https://www.draculathedansemacabre.com/ Twitter: https://x.com/DraculaTDM Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/draculathedansemacabre Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/draculathedansemacabre Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/draculatdm.bsky.social * * * Transcript for this Trailer: Woman: The rules that govern the vampire are well known. (Thunder crashes behind her. A storm grows in power beneath the following:) Woman: He does not die, but clings to life forever. (Dark, foreboding music plays beneath her words.) Woman: Having lost his own life, he must steal the life of others by drinking their blood. Woman: If a place is a home, he may only enter after he's been invited in. Woman: He is destroyed by the sun and cowers at the sight of religious symbols. Woman: He can be put to rest by a stake through the heart, or by the removal of his head, or by means of fire. Woman: And when he crosses a mirror... he leaves behind no reflection. Woman: And though the vampire may look like a man, all traces of intelligence vanish upon death, leaving behind nothing but a beast. There are no vampires that can think like a man. Man: None... except for one. (A powerful crash of thunder.) Announcer: Dracula: The Danse Macabre. A four-part fiction podcast event from Gabriel Urbina, the creator of Wolf 359, bringing Bram Stoker's timeless horror classic to audio. Coming November 13th, wherever you get your podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dracula: The Danse Macabre First episode premiering November 13th, 2024. Until then, enjoy a quick preview of our original score, composed by Alan Rodi.