Neurotic closet-dweller Bram Stoker visits the campfire to tell his iconic vampire story. In Transylvania, hot twink Jon "Jonathan" Harker shacks up with a rich older man who wants to consume his bodily fluids. Meanwhile in England, notorious strumpet Lucy Westenra attempts to ensnare her innocent friend Mina into the dangerous and disgusting world of sex. A cautionary tale about the perils of horniness, as Bram attempts to prove once and for all that vampires are in no way sexy. Mary Shelley invites Anne Rice and Stephenie Meyer just to stir the pot.

Content notes: swearing, raised voices, violence, death, guns, gory sounds, Victorian institutionalisation of mental health patients, strong sexual content.

CAST

• Edgar Allan Poe/Dracula — RODRIGO BORGES
• Mary Shelley/Mina Murray — REBECCA D'SOUZA
• Clive Barker — SISTER INDICA
• HP Lovecraft — ROBIN JOHNSON
• Dean Koontz — WREN MONTGOMERY
• Stephen King — JASON ROBINSON

with

• Bram Stoker/Quincey Morris — JOEL A.S. BUTLER
• Jonathan Harker — THADDEUS STRANGE
• Lucy Westenra — MARNIE WARNER
• Dr Van Helsing/Dr Seward — CASSIE VULPINE
• Renfield — JOHN SERRANO
• Anne Rice — LORETTA CHANG
• Stephenie Meyer — NOMI IBSEN
• Additional voices — EMILY HANNAK, LOU SUTCLIFFE, DAVID COURT

Script by Bitter Karella, edited by Robin Johnson, based loosely on Dracula by Bram Stoker. Production by Robin Johnson. Music by Alex Rancourt, Robin Johnson and Lou Sutcliffe.

Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula is the codifying example of the vampire story in popular culture. The book is in the public domain and can be found on Project Gutenberg at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/345

Stoker's completely normal letter to Walt Whitman, written on Valentine's Day of 1876, can be read at https://www.themarginalian.org/2019/01/09/bram-stoker-walt-whitman-letter/

A transcript of this episode can be found at https://midnight-pals.simplecast.com/episodes/s01e03-the-tale-of-dracula/transcript

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