Gothic Imagination: Dracula, Frankenstein & More - Mary Shelley, Lucy Catherine, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Ann Ratcliffe, Mary Braddon, Edith Nesbit, Edith Wharton, Elizabeth Bowen, Howard Brenton, Bram Stoker

Written by Mary Shelley, Lucy Catherine, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Ann Ratcliffe, Mary Braddon, Edith Nesbit, Edith Wharton, Elizabeth Bowen, Howard Brenton, Bram Stoker
Read by Full Cast
Format: M4B

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A BBC chilling collection of classic gothic horror and ghost stories adapted or written by women

In this breathtaking collection of gothic horror and eerie tales, draw the curtains and pull the blankets close for two classic Victorian horror tales in new adaptations, Dracula starring Nicky Henson, Charles Edwards, Don Gilet and Ellie Kendrick and Frankenstein, with Jamie Parker (Harry Potter) as Frankenstein and Shaun Dooley (Gentleman Jack, Broadchurch) as the Monster. Next is a thrilling drama about the scandalous Mary Shelley and Lord Byron in Bloody Poetry. In the sensational psycho-sexual thriller The Mysteries of Udolpho with Robert Glenister (Suspicion, Spooks), a young woman is trapped in a castle of nightmares and villains. But who can she trust?

Four spine-chilling dramatised tales follow: The Cold Embrace, where a handsome artist makes a terrible mistake, Man-size in Marble, in which newly-weds must face a horrifying truth, Afterward sees a couple paying the price for an unexpected windfall, and The Demon Lover, featuring Jenny Howe (Silent Witness, Eastenders) about a woman struggling home through the Blitz.

Finally, two of Mary Shelley’s finest short stories, ‘The Mortal Immortal ‘- when a young apprentice drinks a potion to cure his heartbreak but discovers a feeling far worse - and ‘Rodger Dodworth: The Reanimated Englishman’ - where a man is woken after 170 years encased in ice.