Reading playlist Dracula
The cold draughts under castle doors, the sense that something vast and patient has been waiting precisely for you.
Artists and music for this book
Franz Liszt
Wojciech Kilar
Bernard Herrmann
Ennio Morricone
Bedřich Smetana
Why this music
Because the book moves between two worlds — the wild, atavistic Carpathians and the fog-bound rationalism of Victorian England — the music shifts between dark Romantic orchestral texture and sparse, chill atmospherics. Strings stay taut and unresolved, the way dread does. As Dracula closes in on London, the sound thickens and darkens, never quite breaking into the open.