Horror Legend Christopher Lee Reads Bram Stoker’s Dracula
30th April 2022
In ten low-budget films made by British exploitation studio Hammer, Lee portrayed the monstrous-yet-seductive blood-sucking nobleman as a very proper Englishman with “a certain lascivious sex appeal“—beginning with 1958’s Horror of Dracula (see a trailer above) and ending with 1973’s The Satanic Rites of Dracula. I find Lee’s Dracula so memorable that I was delighted to hear the audio above of him reading an adaptation of the novel, in ten parts. The video begins with titles and an establishing shot from the Hammer films, then segues to images from a 1966 Dracula graphic novel, the source of the “pretty faithful” adaptation by Otto Binder and Craig Tennis, for which Lee wrote an introduction.