025: A Vampire's Heart
Pleasing Terrors
Mike Brown
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2017
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Count Dracula's story is one of many pieces; a story of a man and the secrets that are hidden inside his castle. Bram Stoker, the story's author, is also a man of many secrets who constructed his own castle and built a fortress around his heart. The puzzle of Count Dracula is not complete until the intertwining pieces are put together.
When put together what do the pieces reveal about the story and the man behind it?
Episode Highlights:
- A young lawyer encounters strange experiences inside the Count's castle
- The captain of a Russian ship that has run aground is found lashed to the ship's wheel
- A beautiful lady who hunts children in the night
- The tragic death of a woman about to be married
- Dracula is forced to flee to his castle
- The search for the real Dracula
- The literary origin of Count Dracula
- Who is Bram Stoker and his ties to prominent men of the time
- The love that dare not speak its name
- Stoker's own castle built to conceal his secrets
- What the secrets reveal
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| 0:00.0 | Some stories were never supposed to be told, stories that exist in the twilight between science and the |
| 0:16.6 | supernatural, between history and the horror. Stories that speak of terrifying things. |
| 0:25.0 | Stories that you want to hear. |
| 0:28.0 | Stories that you need to hear. |
| 0:31.0 | Stories that will sink their teeth in and never let you go. My name is Mike Brown and |
| 0:40.1 | this is pleasing terrors. Episode is dedicated to Maggie, who loves vampires. |
| 0:55.0 | Episode 25, a vampire's heart. This is the story of a castle and the man who dwells inside. It is a castle of his own creation and its walls are |
| 1:17.0 | intended to hold a hostile world at bay. It is a place of mystery and its walls are intended to hide the secrets contained within. |
| 1:30.0 | For those who find their way inside, it is a place of revelations. |
| 1:35.0 | For the man that they will find there, |
| 1:38.0 | it is a prison that in his heart of hearts he longs to escape. |
| 1:45.4 | This is the story of a young lawyer who goes missing while on a business trip and of a ship run aground on an English shore, its crew missing and presumed dead, and the body of its |
| 1:59.3 | captain lashed to the wheel. It is the story of a beautiful bride to be who stalks the night |
| 2:07.1 | feeding on the blood of children and who must be hunted down by those she once |
| 2:12.2 | loved and destroyed. |
| 2:16.0 | And there is something else as well. |
| 2:19.1 | There is a mystery here. |
| 2:21.6 | It is hidden behind the words and seen only out of the corner of one's eye. |
| 2:28.1 | This is a story that begins with a question. |
| 2:31.8 | Who is Count Dracula? |
| 2:35.0 | The story of Dracula is one of many pieces. |
| 2:40.0 | It is composed of newspaper articles, diaries, letters, and even the captain's log of a doomed ship. |
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