
Dracula
The Undead
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Narrated by:
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Alex Dunbar
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By:
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Dacre Stoker
About this listen
The official sequel to Bram Stoker's classic novel Dracula, written by his direct descendent and endorsed by the Stoker family
The story begins in 1912, twenty-five years after the events described in the original novel. Dr. Jack Seward, now a disgraced morphine addict, hunts vampires across Europe with the help of a mysterious benefactor. Meanwhile, Quincey Harker, the grown son of Jonathan and Mina, leaves law school to pursue a career in stage at London's famous Lyceum Theatre.
The production of Dracula at the Lyceum, directed and produced by Bram Stoker, has recently lost its star. Luckily, Quincey knows how to contact the famed Hungarian actor Basarab, who agrees to take the lead role.
Quincey soon discovers that the play features his parents and their former friends as characters, and seems to reveal much about the terrible secrets he's always suspected them of harbouring. But, before he can confront them, Jonathan Harker is found murdered.
The writers were able to access Bram Stoker's hand-written notes and have included in their story characters and plot threads that had been excised by the publisher from the original printing over a century ago.
Dracula is one of the most recognized fictional characters in the world, having spawned dozens of multi-media spin-offs. The Un-Dead is the first Dracula story to enjoy the full support of the Stoker estate since the original 1931 movie starring Bela Lugosi.
©2009 HarperCollins Publishers (P)2009 HarperCollins PublishersOf course, that would be fine if the rest of the book was any cop. It is not. Abandoning the original's epistolary format, it is a third-person dash through clich? after clich? on its quest to destroy Dracula's cool. Jonathan Harker is a whoring drunkard! Jack Seward is Buffy on heroin! Van Helsing is Jack the Ripper! Or something! The main villain - other than Dracula who I'm sure will turn up at some point in the time remaining of the book I have left to listen to - is soft-focus lesbian vampire Elizabeth Bathory, which makes you think Stoker and Holt have simply stuck a pin in a history book and picked the first historical figure with a bit of a "thing" for blood and called vampire. The plot is some po-mo nonsense about a production of the theatre version of Bram Stoker's original story, but you can read that above.
And the reading? Well, Alex Dunbar can read, I suppose. Can't really do accents - his Irish Stoker wobbles all over the place, and everyone bar Bathory and Basarab, the mysterious not-Dracula-in-any-way actor, who both speak with quavery Eastern European accents (despite Basarab being described as possessing a deep baritone).
Honestly, it's awful. But it's also great. I can't tear myself away.
Unintentionally hilarious
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Pretty good actually.
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Apalling
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