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

Episode 2 of 4. August 1893. Schoolteacher Mina Harker lives her life on a tightrope, balancing her duties to her work, her social life, and her extracurricular interest in the occult. Her existence - and that of her best friend, Lucy Westenra - is disturbed by the arrival of a mysterious ship on the shores of New York City. Soon, they both find themselves drawing the attention of the newly arrived Count Dracula, who wastes no time in setting his evil plans for the new world into motion. Can Mina stand up to the count's dark designs? And what will happen when the ancient vampire finds himself finally facing a worthy adversary?

Dracula: The Danse Macabre was created by Gabriel Urbina. Tonight’s episode was written and directed by Gabriel Urbina. Based on the novel Dracula 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. Script editing by Sarah Shachat. It was recorded by Robby Schwartz at Soho Recording. This has been a Long Story Short Production.

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