What happens
Jonathan Harker, a young English lawyer, travels to Transylvania to handle a property purchase for a client, Count Dracula, and finds himself a prisoner in the Count's crumbling castle. Back in England, Dr. Arthur Seward, his friend Dr. Van Helsing and others face a mysterious illness afflicting Lucy Westenra, a young woman engaged to Seward. The Mercury Theatre on the Air presents this adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel, with Orson Welles as the Count. The episode, first broadcast on July 11, 1938, is narrated by Seward, who presents Harker's private journal and newspaper clippings as evidence.
Transylvania and London, England, late nineteenth century
Characters: Jonathan Harker, Count Dracula, Dr. Arthur Seward, Dr. Van Helsing, Lucy Westenra, Mina Harker
Listen for: Harker's journal entries describing his imprisonment in the castle, and Dr. Van Helsing's explanation of the vampire's nature and weaknesses.
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.