#murray mysteries

[knovesstorytelling]

Am I wrong tho

[vampirerex]

Podcasts will say the most devastating thing you’ve ever heard and then play the worlds most jaunty ending music

[acepodcastweek]

Did I miss your favourite? Let me know!

Wondering where Jon Sims is? He is too powerful and would skew the poll, but rest assured I have not forgotten.

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[luminouslumity]

It's great to see my other favorite Dracula audio adaptation getting the attention it deserves!

[just-a-gender-fluid-puddle]

Now that Sherlock and Co is growing in popularity I want to recommend Murray Mysteries. It's a fairly similar premise to Sherlock and Co, being a modern podcast adaptation of Dracula. It's incredible, with lots of great queer rep and is very faithful to the original book. Definitely my favourite Dracula adaptation. Go listen to it, it's great.

[frozenbluecookies]

I would like to thank @ispridestillasin for their post about Murray Mysteries, I'm obsessed with this podcast now. For any Dracula Daily and Re: Dracula enjoyers, I highly recommend.

It's Modern AU Dracula in podcast form, and it's excellent. All the emotional beats and broad storytelling strokes from the original are still there, but the details are more modern and fun.

Some of the characters are genderbent, so we have Abigail Van Helsing, Jane Seward, and nonbinary Art Holmwood. Almost all of the core characters are canonically queer. Quincy is still a lovable himbo who shoots at bats.

I really, really love this. I think the rest of the Dracula Daily/Re: Dracula fandom would too.

[eldritchgriffin]

Spooky Podcast Recommendations

Since it's Friday the 13th, I'm going to share a few of my favorite horror podcasts! All of these are excellent podcasts that I highly recommend. The list is pretty short, so if anyone has suggestions for more horror podcasts to listen to, I'd love to hear them!

The Magnus Archives: A very well known podcast, The Magnus Archives is a horror anthology series set in the archives of The Magnus Institute, which studies and collects accounts of supernatural occurrences. Each episode features a different story, though there is overarching plot involving what goes in the Institute itself. TMA is completed with 200 episodes. The writer has also written the book 13 Storeys, and Rusty Quill has a variety of other podcasts you can listen to.

Hello From the Hallowoods: HftH is a story about a wide variety of people attempting to survive in post-apocalyptic North America. The characters vary from normal humans, to witches, to ghosts, to demons, and more. It is surprisingly comforting for a horror podcast, and has plenty of friendships and found family. The series is ongoing in its second season. The creator is currently writing a book in the same universe, and you can follow them @hellofromthehallowoods

Murray Mysteries: MM is a modern, queer adaptation of Bram Stokers Dracula (of Dracula Daily renown). It's a funny and sad story told through Mina Murray's podcast, with the help of her friends. MM is completed with 46 episodes. The creators have also announced that they have more series in the works, so you can follow them @knovesstorytelling if you want to stay updated on that!

Camp Here and There: CHnT mostly follows the daily announcements made by the camp nurse at a very strange camp. The podcast is somewhat similar to Welcome to Nightvale in the way strange and creepy events at the camp are often taken in stride. In addition to the day to day events of the camp there is overarching plot involving the various members of camp staff and a mysterious individual in a pink elephant mask... Currently on hiatus between season one and two.

The Children of Room 56: This is a fairly new podcast, with only a few episodes out, but it's already very intriguing. It follows a group of high-schoolers trying to cope with the disappearance of their friend, Chip Romero. Some are attempting to locate him, while others are grieving his presumed death. The story is set in a Nightvale/CHnT-esque town, with mystery and excellent horror. This series is ongoing. You can follow them @room56pod

[haveyouheardthispodcast]

[clonerightsagenda]

Enough of the sexyperson polls. I'm taking matters into my own hands.

Unsexywoman poll.

[femmefatalegoth]

This passage is so perfect I need it embroidered and hung on my wall. Here it is in all it’s glory. Poor Jonathan.

Nope, nope, no ff— lizard. I can’t, I just go one day, one day without some kind of horrifying revelation. I just found out I’m stuck inside a castle in the middle of nowhere with a man who will probably kill and eat me Hannibal-style. I know what I’ll do, look out the window for a bit. Look at the moon, calm myself down, maybe look around for an escape route, but no. I can’t have one moment of rest, can I? I have to look down and see my future murderer crawl down the fricking wall like a lizard. I can never unsee that. If I get out of this alive, I’m going to be sending this man my therapy bill, that’ll show him.

[yallemagne]

I was thinking what a sad fate vampirism would be for Jonathan because no garlic.

And then I thought... if we imagine garlic burns vampires, would vampiric Jonathan continue to eat it anyway? Just imagine Jonathan, slowly turning, going ham on a plate of garlic bread, and Van Helsing is like “He must not be as far gone as we think.” 

He is, in fact, precisely as far gone as you think, perhaps more.

[luminouslumity]

Renfield actually came out a few days ago, but I thought I'd share the trailer for it anyway, as well as the one for The Last Voyage of the Demeter while I was at it. I personally thought the former was really fun and I'll definitely be watching the latter when it releases later this year as well! As also mentioned in the newsletter, Stoker had previously written a different first for the novel that had been cut for publication but can still be read here, @re-dracula have an audio drama podcast that'll premier alongside DD starting May 3rd, and the link to I, Dracula as well as its book trailer can both be found here. As for my own recommendations, please check out the Murray Mysteries podcast—a modern audio drama retelling of Dracula—as well as the Icelandic version of the novel called Powers of Darkness, which is very different from the original!

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[just-a-gender-fluid-puddle]

Podcast adaptations of classic books, you are everything to me