Diary entries, telegrams, a ship's log, a doctor's phonograph recordings. Bram Stoker built the whole novel out of documents people wrote while the horror was still happening to them. So we are performing it that way: a full cast, every letter read in the voice of the person who wrote it, with sound design built for headphones and a dark room.

Thirty seconds. Headphones on, lights down.

Chapters 1 to 3 arrive Monday, 5 October. A new chapter twice a week after that.

Richian Presents: Dracula is Bram Stoker's 1897 novel as a full-cast audio drama, told in the letters and diaries he wrote it in. The voices are AI. Casting, direction and the cut are by Rich and Adrian.

Hear every chapter a week early: richian.ai/dracula
Watch on YouTube: youtube.com/@RichianStudios

Jonathan Harker, a young solicitor from Exeter, is travelling east to close a property sale for a nobleman he has never met. The locals cross themselves when they hear where he is going. One woman presses a crucifix into his hand and begs him not to go.

By nightfall he is in a coach climbing the Borgo Pass. The wolves are close. Something is waiting at the top.

Chapter I of Bram Stoker's Dracula, performed by a full cast.

Richian Presents: Dracula is Bram Stoker's 1897 novel as a full-cast audio drama, told in the letters and diaries he wrote it in. The voices are AI. Casting, direction and the cut are by Rich and Adrian.

Hear every chapter a week early: richian.ai/dracula
Watch on YouTube: youtube.com/@RichianStudios

Harker's host is courteous, well read, and very curious about a house for sale in England. He asks careful questions late into the night, and he is gone before the sun comes up.

There are no servants. There are no mirrors. Harker writes it all down — and then he cuts himself shaving.

Chapter II of Bram Stoker's Dracula, performed by a full cast.

Richian Presents: Dracula is Bram Stoker's 1897 novel as a full-cast audio drama, told in the letters and diaries he wrote it in. The voices are AI. Casting, direction and the cut are by Rich and Adrian.

Hear every chapter a week early: richian.ai/dracula
Watch on YouTube: youtube.com/@RichianStudios

Every door is locked. Harker is a guest who cannot leave, so he starts opening the rooms he was told to stay out of.

The Count warned him never to fall asleep anywhere else in the castle. He does. Three women are waiting, and what happens next is interrupted by something worse.

Chapter III of Bram Stoker's Dracula, performed by a full cast.

Richian Presents: Dracula is Bram Stoker's 1897 novel as a full-cast audio drama, told in the letters and diaries he wrote it in. The voices are AI. Casting, direction and the cut are by Rich and Adrian.

Hear every chapter a week early: richian.ai/dracula
Watch on YouTube: youtube.com/@RichianStudios

Carts in the courtyard. Great wooden boxes filled with soil. Letters Harker is told to write and date weeks ahead, so that whatever happens to him happens quietly.

He climbs down the castle wall to find where the Count sleeps by day. He finds him. He has a shovel in his hands and one chance to use it.

Chapter IV of Bram Stoker's Dracula, performed by a full cast.

Richian Presents: Dracula is Bram Stoker's 1897 novel as a full-cast audio drama, told in the letters and diaries he wrote it in. The voices are AI. Casting, direction and the cut are by Rich and Adrian.

Hear every chapter a week early: richian.ai/dracula
Watch on YouTube: youtube.com/@RichianStudios