Cryptic Canticles presents Dracula

Episode Synopsis: Mina receives a letter from Jonathan from Transylvania, and finds the tone off-putting. She is also disturbed that Lucy has begun sleepwalking. Mina and Mrs. Westenra decide to lock her in her room at night until Arthur returns from visiting his father, upon which time they expect the condition will subside. Follow us on Twitter.com/CryptiCanticles, Facebook.com/DraculaRadioPlay,...

Episode Synopsis: Mina travels up to visit her friend, Lucy. Mina is impressed with the churchyard that overlooks the harbor. She asks an old fisherman, Mr. Swales about the local folklore. Aboard the Russian schooner, another man had gone missing. They agree to double up watch duty so no one has to be alone. Follow us on Twitter.com/CryptiCanticles, Facebook.com/DraculaRadioPlay, and at crypticca...

Episode Synopsis: The Russian Schooner continues it's voyage from Varna to Whitby without incident. The shadow of the strange dread seems to have passed. Follow us on Twitter.com/CryptiCanticles, Facebook.com/DraculaRadioPlay, and at crypticcanticles.com

Episode Synopsis: Renfield is back to catching flies. He tells Seward that his collection of birds has flown away, but a telling drop of blood on his pillow and the remnants of feathers tells a different story. Seward's suspicions are confirmed later on when he is told that Renfield has vomited up a pile of feathers. Seward decides to refer to Renfield's illness as a Zoophagous mania. He comes to...

Episode Synopsis: Renfield requests that Dr. Seward gifts him with a kitten or preferably a cat. Dr. Seward, not wanting to see Renfield's newly acquired collection of sparrows fed to a larger animal, tells him he will consider the matter. Renfield becomes agitated and breaks down. Follow us on Twitter.com/CryptiCanticles, Facebook.com/DraculaRadioPlay, and at crypticcanticles.com

Episode Synopsis: The captain of a Russian schooner chronicles the strange events that have been going on aboard his ship on a voyage from Varna to Whitby. Along with the typical customs checks and paying off of officers, the men become frightened of something aboard. The first mate loses his temper with the crew, but to no effect. One of the men goes missing, and another confused in the captain t...

Episode Synopsis: Renfield has managed of tame a sparrow by feeding it from his collection of spiders. Follow us on Twitter.com/CryptiCanticles, Facebook.com/DraculaRadioPlay, and at crypticcanticles.com

Episode Synopsis: Dr. Seward continues to study his patient, Renfield. Seward catches Renfield eating a blowfly in his cell and forms suspicions about Renfield's collection of spiders, for he finds a log of sorts that he suspects might pertain to his of menagerie of bugs. Follow us on Twitter.com/CryptiCanticles, Facebook.com/DraculaRadioPlay, and at crypticcanticles.com

Having scaled the castle exterior to the Count’s bedroom once again, and having traveled the passage to the chapel, Jonathan Harker discovers the Count lying in his earthen box. To Jonathan’s horror, the Count’s youth has been half restored, and he lies gorged with blood that trickles down his chin. Jonathan is unable to find the front door key on the Count’s body and tries to stab the Count with...

Jonathan Harker observes the Count, dressed in Jonathan’s traveling suit, delivering the last of the postdated letters that portend his doom. The Count tells Jonathan that his carriage will deliver him to Bistritz tomorrow evening. Jonathan asks to leave immediately, but changes his mind when a multitude of wolves appear at the front door. Once back in his bedroom, Jonathan overhears the count whi...

The first of Jonathan Harker’s postdated letters has been sent, and Jonathan grows desperate. Determined to discover the secrets about the Count, Jonathan perilously climbs down the exterior of the castle wall into the Count’s bedroom. Once inside the seemingly disused room, Jonathan takes a deep passage that opens into a ruined chapel. Jonathan discovers that the Szgany had been filling large woo...

While the Szgany work somewhere in the depths of the castle, Jonathan Harker observes the Count climbing out the window wearing Harker’s traveling suit. Jonathan realizes that by appearing in the town in Harker’s clothes, the townspeople will think he is acting out nefarious deeds of his own will. Jonathan’s plans to await the Count’s return are halted by the appearance of the three spectral women...

Episode Synopsis: John Seward’s inmate, Renfield has taken to collecting spiders, and is feeding them with his flies. Follow us on Twitter.com/CryptiCanticles, Facebook.com/DraculaRadioPlay, and at crypticcanticles.com

Episode Synopsis: Jonathan Harker is locked in his bedroom when the opportunity to escape arises. Slovak workers who are carrying empty boxes into the castle are instructed by the Szgany to ignore Jonathan’s cries for help. Follow us on Twitter.com/CryptiCanticles, Facebook.com/DraculaRadioPlay, and at crypticcanticles.com

Episode Synopsis: John Seward’s inmate, Renfield, has taken to collecting flies in his room. He agreed to get rid of them if he was given three days to do so. Follow us on Twitter.com/CryptiCanticles, Facebook.com/DraculaRadioPlay, and at crypticcanticles.com

Episode Synopsis: Jonathan Harker discovers that the Count has stolen away all of Jonathan’s paper, notes, and maps.  He has also stolen his traveling suit. Harker fears a treacherous scheme is upon him.   Episode Synopsis: Jonathan Harker discovers that the Count has stolen away all of Jonathan’s paper, notes, and maps.  He has also stolen his traveling suit. Harker fears a treacherous scheme is...

Jonathan Harker seizes upon a chance to pay some visiting Szgany workers to send letters home- one to his employer, Peter Hawkins, and a coded shorthand letter to Mina. However, these workers turn them over to the Count, who opens them. He sends on the letter to Hawkins, but destroys the illegible letter to Mina. Follow us on Twitter.com/CryptiCanticles, Facebook.com/DraculaRadioPlay, and at crypt...

Arthur Holmwood accepts Quincey’s invitation and hints at having news to tell. Follow us on Twitter.com/CryptiCanticles, Facebook.com/DraculaRadioPlay, and at crypticcanticles.com

John Seward picks up the pieces from his rejected proposal to Lucy Westenra by returning to work. He begins to study one of his inmates, R.M, Renfield. Quincy Morris invites his dear friend Arthur Holmwood to an evening of drinking and revelry with himself and John Seward. He cautions him not to gloat excessively about winning Lucy’s hand. Follow us on Twitter.com/CryptiCanticles, Facebook.com/Dra...

Lucy Westenra writes to Mina Murray that she has just become engaged to Arthur Holmwood, but not before she rejected two heart-breaking proposals, one from John Seward, and the other from a Texan friend, Quincey Morris. Follow us on Twitter.com/CryptiCanticles, Facebook.com/DraculaRadioPlay, and at crypticcanticles.com

The Count convinces Jonathan Harker to write and postdate letters that say he has left the Castle Dracula and arrived safely in Bistritz. Jonathan obliges, but fears that these letters portend his doom. Follow us on Twitter.com/CryptiCanticles, Facebook.com/DraculaRadioPlay, and at crypticcanticles.com

Jonathan Harker investigates the room wherein he saw the three supernatural women two days prior, but finds that the door has been secured from the inside, and forcibly shut against his entry. Follow us on Twitter.com/CryptiCanticles, Facebook.com/DraculaRadioPlay, and at crypticcanticles.com

Having fallen asleep in a strange room in the Count’s Castle, Jonathan Harker awakes to the sight of three ethereal ladies watching him. Pretending to be asleep, Jonathan waits while one of them presses her lips to his neck before the Count appears in a rage driving the women away from him. The Count produces a bag containing a human baby, which the women fall upon as their prey before disappearin...

Jonathan observes the Count climbing down the wall from his window several more times, and notices that the Castle is built on an outcropping so it is only accessible from one side. Once the Count was out of the castle, Jonathan goes exploring and finds the the front door was locked, and the key missing so he might not escape. He discovers a door which appeared to be locked, but which gave under p...

Lucy Westenra writes to Mina Murray about the latest gossip. She is spending a lot of time with Arthur Holmwood, and her mother thinks him a fine fellow. Arthur introduced her to a man named Dr. John Seward, owner of his own lunatic asylum, who Lucy thinks is remarkably resolute. She feels that Seward is trying to read her, but she evades him. Lucy reveals that she is in love with Arthur Holmwood,...