Cryptic Canticles presents Dracula
Episodes
Dracula Episode: November 6th
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Mina and Van Helsing start eastward on foot, carrying provisions and means of keeping warm. Mina is tired after a steep descent, and...
Dracula Episode: November 5th
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Mina continues to sleep solidly during the daylight hours. Van Helsing commits himself to remain awake at night while Mina is awake,...
Dracula Episode: November 4th
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Seward and Quincey hear from the locals that Jonathan and Arthur had encountered trouble navigating some of the rapids in their stea...
Dracula Episode: November 3rd
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Seward worries about the impending snow as he and Quincey continue to follow the Count. They hear from the local people that Jonath...
Dracula Episode: November 2nd
02 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Jonathan is surprised to see that instead of waking him for his watch, Arthur had let his sleep through the night so that he might r...
Dracula Episode: November 1st
01 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Jonathan and Arthur continue to follow their presumed path of the Count up the river, searching the boats they come across. Struck w...
Dracula Episode: October 31st
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Jonathan and Arthur continue upriver in their steamboat, but have yet to overtake any boat that looks to carry the Count. The wrap t...
Dracula Episode: October 30th
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: When aboard the train to Galatz, Van Helsing finally succeeds in hypnotizing Mina with only a minute until dawn. She manages to tell...
Dracula Episode: October 29th
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: It is more difficult for Van Helsing to hypnotise Mina than it had been in the past. In Mina’s sunset hypnosis, she reports that s...
Dracula Episode: October 28th
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Rufus Smith sends a telegram to Arthur that the Czarina Catherine has been reported entering Galatz. The group is not overly surpris...
Dracula Episode: October 27th
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: The Czarina Catherine is now two days overdue, and Van Helsing is worried that the Count may have somehow managed to circumvent thei...
Dracula Episode: October 26th
26 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Dr. Seward is growing anxious that the Czarina Catherine has not yet arrived. Mina still reports that the ship is at sea. Seward sus...
Dracula Episode: October 25th
25 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Everyone is giddy about the Czarina Catherine being reported in the Dardanelles, except Mina, who by request has not been told, and ...
Dracula Episode: October 24th
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: After a week of waiting, the men have not received any new news via telegram, or from Mina’s hypnotic report. Rufus Smith sends Ar...
Dracula Episode: October 17th
17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Arthur has managed to procure assurance that they will be allowed to board the Czarina Catherine and search for the box, which he cl...
Dracula Episode: October 16th
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: No news of the Count, Mina continues to give the same report that he is still at sea. Jonathan hopes that they will hear of the shi...
Dracula Episode: October 15th
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: The men have arrived in Varna, and settle into “The Odessus” hotel. Arthur checks his telegrams and ensures that the Czarina Cat...
Dracula Episode: October 11th
11 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: At sunset, when Mina is temporarily freed from the vampire affliction that binds her tongue, she gathers the men and asks that shoul...
Dracula Episode: October 6th
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Mina awakens at sunrise and calls for Van Helsing. Rather than request for hypnosis, she explains that she must accompany them on t...
Dracula Episode: October 5th
05 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Van Helsing explains the details of their trip to the dock. They met the owner of a ship called the Czarina Catherine which took o...
Dracula Episode: October 4th
04 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Mina awakens early and calls for Van Helsing to hypnotize her, as she believes she may provide some insight that she is free to disc...
Dracula Episode: October 3rd
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Dr. Seward hurries down to see Renfield, whom Simmons the attendant had said met with some terrible accident. When Seward arrives, ...
Dracula Episode: October 2nd
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Mina is concerned about how worn out and emotional she has felt lately. She visits with Renfield, by request, and he wishes her well...
Dracula Episode: October 1st
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: As the men are preparing to investigate Carfax Manor, they receive the message that Renfield desperately wants to speak to Dr. Sewar...
Dracula Episode: September 30th
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Jonathan Harker arrives to stay with Mina and the rest of the men as guests in Seward’s asylum. He and Mina set to work ordering a...
Dracula Episode: September 29th
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Arthur and Quincey meet with Seward and Van Helsing in complete confusion as to why they had been summoned. At once, Van Helsing ask...
Dracula Episode: September 28th
28 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: After a night’s rest, Dr. Seward decides that Van Helsing’s theories, which he had been so ready to believe the night before, mu...
Dracula Episode: September 27th
27 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Dr. Seward and Van Helsing visit the graveyard again in the afternoon once a group of mourners has cleared out from a noon service. ...
Dracula Episode: September 26th
26 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Van Helsing is amazed to see that Jonathan has made a full recovery. Jonathan tells him that since Mina revealed Van Helsing’s ...
Dracula Episode: September 25th
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: A reporter for the Westminster Gazette writes about children who have gone missing while playing on Hampstead Heath, and have been f...
Dracula Episode: September 24th
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Mina is deeply disturbed by what she reads in Jonathan’s travel journal. She wonders how much of it could be true, for there is a ...
Dracula Episode: September 23rd
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Mina is rejoiced that, since Mr. Hawkins has passed, Jonathan has taken up the mantle of responsibility excellently. He told her tha...
Dracula Episode: September 22nd
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Following the funeral of Mr. Hawkins, Mina and Jonathan take a walk through Hyde Park Corner. Jonathan undergoes a sort of trance as...
Dracula Episode: September 20th
20 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: The doctor that Seward had placed in charge of the asylum in his absence, Dr. Patrick Hennessy, writes to Seward describing an unfor...
Dracula Episode: September 19th
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: It is clear to all that Lucy is dying. Seward and Van Helsing never leave her side, while Quincey Morris patrols the halls. Lucy sli...
Dracula Episode: September 18th
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: A reporter for the Pall Mall Gazette investigates the case of a wolf that has escaped from the local zoo. She interviews Mr. Bilder...
Dracula Episode: September 17th
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Lucy remembers the pain of the last several weeks as though a bad dream. She gratefully rejoices in her comfort falling asleep witho...
Dracula Episode: September 13th
13 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Dr. Seward and Professor Van Helsing arrive at Lucy’s house in bright spirits to discover in horror that Lucy’s mother, with the...
Dracula Episode: September 12th
12 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Lucy expresses extreme gratitude for Professor Van Helsing and all those who have fixed their efforts towards her recovery. She tak...
Dracula Episode: September 11th
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Professor Van Helsing insists upon adorning Lucy’s bedroom with bundles of garlic flowers, which he also prescribes her to wear as...
Dracula Episode: September 10th
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Van Helsing awakens Dr. Seward who had been sleeping in the room adjoining Lucy's. The both of them check on Lucy and discover that ...
Dracula Episode: September 9th
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: When Dr. Seward arrives to spend his second consecutive night keeping vigil, Lucy insists that he rest in the adjoining room instead...
Dracula Episode: September 8th
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Whilst sitting up with Lucy for the night, Dr. Seward notices that Lucy repeatedly tries to stave off sleep. When asked her why, she...
Dracula Episode: September 7th
07 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Van Helsing hurries to meet Dr. Seward and tend to Lucy. Both are horrified to see that she is languishing under a tremendous loss o...
Dracula Episode: September 6th
06 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Dr. Seward sends a telegram to Van Helsing urging him to come at once and tend to Lucy who has suddenly regressed. Seward writes to...
Dracula Episode: September 5th
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Dr. Seward sends a telegram to Van Helsing that Lucy is recovering rapidly. Follow us on Twitter.com/CryptiCanticles, Facebook.com/D...
Dracula Episode: September 4th
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Dr. Seward attempts to examine why Renfield experiences violent mood shifts at noon and at sunset. Renfield went through a brief per...
Dracula Episode: September 3rd
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Dr. Seward writes to Arthur to explain how Van Helsing’s examination of Lucy transpired: After the three of them chatted for a sp...
Dracula Episode: September 2nd
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Dr. Seward writes to Arthur to tell him of Lucy’s condition. He explains that during lunch, Lucy put on a brave face of vigor, bu...
Dracula Episode: September 1st
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Arthur sends a telegram to Dr. Seward asking for him to write regarding Lucy’s condition. Arthur must attend to his father, who i...
Dracula Episode: August 31st
31 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Arthur writes to his friend, Dr. Seward, asking him to examine Lucy, as he is worried about her deteriorating health. He urges Sewar...
Dracula Episode: August 30th
30 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Lucy writes to Mina wishing her well in her new marriage. She says that Arthur is back at Whitby, and her mother’s health is impro...
Dracula Episode: August 25th
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Rejected in her request to sleep in her mother’s room, Lucy suffers another difficult night. She tried to stay awake to combat the...
Dracula Episode: August 24th
24 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Mina arrives in Buda-Pesth to attend Jonathan, who has taken with a brain fever as a result of his terrifying journey. Sister Agath...
Dracula Episode: August 23rd
23 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: When given the chance to escape, Renfield would not go. However, when an attendant came to check on him later, Renfield dashed past ...
Dracula Episode: August 21st
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Carter, Paterson & Co. acknowledge receipt of payment, and confirm delivery of fifty boxes of earth to the Carfax Estate as per ...
Dracula Episode: August 20th
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Dr. Seward has been observing Renfield and noticed that despite his fits of passion during daylight hours, he becomes sanguine and c...
Dracula Episode: August 19th
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Mina is overjoyed to have news at last from her beloved Jonathan. Sr. Agatha of the Hospital of St. Joseph has written to say that ...
Dracula Episode: August 18th
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Lucy is in high spirits, despite still looking pale and wan. She describes to Mina what it felt like to her on the night that she wa...
Dracula Episode: August 17th
17 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Mina worries desperately about Lucy who is getting weaker and weaker. Mina finds her sleeping at the open window, and the most rece...
Dracula Episode: August 15th
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Lucy is languid at breakfast, but is delighted to hear that Arthur Holmwood’s father is doing better, and wants to accelerate Arth...
Dracula Episode: August 14th
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Lucy startles Mina with a strange remark as the two sit in their favorite churchyard seat. Mina sees that Lucy is noticing the sunse...
Dracula Episode: August 13th
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Mina worries desperately about Lucy who is getting weaker and weaker. Mina finds her sleeping at the open window, and the most rece...
Dracula Episode: August 12th
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Despite Lucy’s continued attempts at sleepwalking, her health continues to improve. The two converse about their sweethearts, Lucy...
Dracula Episode: August 11th
11 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Mina awakes in the middle of the night to find Lucy missing, and nowhere in the house. Mina rushes with a heavy shawl to find Lucy ...
Dracula Episode: August 10th
10 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Mina and Lucy attend the funeral of the Captain of the Demeter from their usual seat in the church yard. Earlier that day in that s...
Dracula Episode: August 9th
09 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: A reporter from the Daily Telegraph continues to report on the strange goings on with the derelict Russian Schooner. The Dog which ...
Dracula Episode: August 8th
08 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A reporter from the Daily Telegraph editorializes on the details of a storm from the previous day, including the brilliant colors in the sky, the acti...
Dracula Episode: August 6th
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Mina sits at her favorite seat in the churchyard and observes the signs of the coming storm through the grey day. Mr. Swales comes t...
Dracula Episode: August 4th
04 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Amid the never ending fog, the Captain of the Russian schooner, now alone at the helm, at last sees the intruder. Refusing to leave ...
Dracula Episode: August 3rd
03 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Mina keeps rereading the letter from Jonathan that reads so oddly. She hasn't heard from him since, and neither has Mr. Hawkins. Luc...
Dracula Episode: August 2nd
02 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: The captain of the Russian schooner awakes to a cry. He runs into the first mate who tells him that another man is missing. Follow u...
Dracula Episode: August 1st
01 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Mina and Lucy visit with the old fishermen in the churchyard. Mr. Swales entertains the lot of them with tales of the men whose name...
Dracula Episode: July 30th
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Whilst nearing England, the Russian schooner encounters more trouble. Two more men have disappeared from the ship. They are now down...
Dracula Episode: July 29th
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: The Russian schooner encounters more trouble when the second mate disappears from his watch in the night. Follow us on Twitter.com/...
Dracula Episode: July 28th
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: The Russian schooner encounters a storm. With everybody exhausted from the storm and lack of sleep, the second mate agrees to take w...
Dracula Episode: July 27th
27 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Mina frets over missing Jonathan worries about why she feels so distraught over it. Lucy continues to sleepwalk, and Mina feels worn...
Dracula Episode: July 26th
26 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Mina receives a letter from Jonathan from Transylvania, and finds the tone off-putting. She is also disturbed that Lucy has begun sl...
Dracula Episode: July 24th
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Mina travels up to visit her friend, Lucy. Mina is impressed with the churchyard that overlooks the harbor. She asks an old fisherma...
Dracula Episode: July 22nd
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: The Russian Schooner continues it's voyage from Varna to Whitby without incident. The shadow of the strange dread seems to have pass...
Dracula Episode: July 20th
20 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Dracula Episode: July 19th
19 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 acqui...
Dracula Episode: July 18th
18 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 Wh...
Dracula Episode: July 8th
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Renfield has managed of tame a sparrow by feeding it from his collection of spiders. Follow us on Twitter.com/CryptiCanticles, Faceb...
Dracula Episode: July 1st
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Dr. Seward continues to study his patient, Renfield. Seward catches Renfield eating a blowfly in his cell and forms suspicions about...
Dracula Episode: June 30th
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Having scaled the castle exterior to the Count’s bedroom once again, and having traveled the passage to the chapel, Jonathan Harker discovers the Co...
Dracula Episode: June 29th
29 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Harker observes the Count, dressed in Jonathan’s traveling suit, delivering the last of the postdated letters that portend his doom. The Co...
Dracula Episode: June 25th
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The first of Jonathan Harker’s postdated letters has been sent, and Jonathan grows desperate. Determined to discover the secrets about the Count, Jo...
Dracula Episode: June 24th
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
While the Szgany work somewhere in the depths of the castle, Jonathan Harker observes the Count climbing out the window wearing Harker’s traveling s...
Dracula Episode: June 18th
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: John Seward’s inmate, Renfield has taken to collecting spiders, and is feeding them with his flies. Follow us on Twitter.com/Crypt...
Dracula Episode: June 17th
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Jonathan Harker is locked in his bedroom when the opportunity to escape arises. Slovak workers who are carrying empty boxes into the...
Dracula Episode: June 5th
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Dracula Episode: May 31st
31 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Synopsis: Jonathan Harker discovers that the Count has stolen away all of Jonathan’s paper, notes, and maps. He has also stolen his travel...
Dracula Episode: May 28th
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 shorth...
Dracula Episode: May 26th
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Arthur Holmwood accepts Quincey’s invitation and hints at having news to tell. Follow us on Twitter.com/CryptiCanticles, Facebook.com/DraculaRadioPl...
Dracula Episode: May 25th
25 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Dracula Episode: May 24th
24 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Dracula Episode: May 19th
19 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Count convinces Jonathan Harker to write and postdate letters that say he has left the Castle Dracula and arrived safely in Bistritz. Jonathan obl...
Dracula Episode: May 18th
18 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 in...
Dracula Episode: May 16th
16 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...