Immersive Dracula audio retelling stars Jonathan Bailey and Maggie Gyllenhaal
Mary Lambert’s new audio adaptation of Bram Stoker’s *Dracula* uses a high-profile cast and immersive sound design to give the familiar horror story a fresh, cinematic feel. Its streamlined retelling and unsettling atmosphere help justify revisiting a novel already adapted many times.
Jonathan Bailey plays Dracula, with Louis Partridge as solicitor Jonathan Harker, Ella Purnell as Mina and Aimee Lou Wood as Lucy; Maggie Gyllenhaal plays vampire hunter Van Helsing. The story moves between Dracula’s castle in Transylvania and strange events in Whitby, where Lucy suffers a frightening encounter after a shipwreck. A score by Ilan Eshkeri and echoing, disembodied sounds build the horror, and the 5-hour-57-minute production is available through Audible Originals.
In short
- Jonathan Bailey leads a star-studded audio retelling of *Dracula*.
- Immersive sound design creates an unsettling, cinematic atmosphere.
- The Audible Originals production runs for 5 hours and 57 minutes.
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Originally published by The Guardian as “Bram Stoker’s Dracula audiobook review – cinematic horror with an A-list cast”.