Episode 1: The Happiness You Bring

Warning: This episode contains discussions and depictions of violence, body horror, imprisonment, and death, as well as menacing situations, disturbing content, and jump scares. Viewer discretion is advised.

Episode 1 of 4. May 1893. Sent by his superiors to Transylvania to help a member of the local nobility with a real estate purchase, American clerk Jonathan Harker soon finds himself brought to a foreboding castle. There, he meets the mysterious Count Dracula, and learns of his plans to come to America... as well as the darker secrets the count has been keeping for centuries. Can Jonathan find a way to escape the castle before the Dracula can set his evil plan in motion? And back home in America, is Jonathan's wife Mina ready for the darkness that is headed towards her?

Dracula: The Danse Macabre was created by Gabriel Urbina. Tonight’s episode was written and directed by Gabriel Urbina. Based on the novel by Bram Stoker. It stars Evangeline Young as Mina Harker and Peter Coleman as Jonathan Harker. It features original music by Alan Rodi and sound design by Jeffrey Nils Gardner. Tonight’s episode also features Gnossiene No. 1 by Erik Satie. This interpretation of the piece comes to us courtesy of Pixabay. Script editing by Sarah Shachat. It was recorded by Robby Schwartz at Soho Recording. This has been a Long Story Short Production.