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A Night with a Vampire: BBC Radio horror read by David Tennant

A Night with a Vampire David Tennant reads ten disturbing Victorian vampire stories, produced by Clive Brill. A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast as 5 episodes in 2010, then 5 more in 2011. Episodes include: 2010-11-23 Dead Persons in Hungary [by AA Calmet] Are vampires real? The testimony of early 18th-century witnesses suggests a definitive answer. Antoine Augustin Calmet published an apparently serious anthropological history of the vampire throughout Europe in the early 19th century called "The Phantom World". All the people he spoke to were adamant about what they had witnessed. His account therefore appears all the more disturbing and became the basis for the flights of vampiric fancy that took off in the Victorian age. 2010-11-23 The Family of the Vourdalak [by Aleksey Tolstoy] Father Gorcha sets off on a mysterious mission in the mountains, but warns his family not to welcome him back - for he will be transformed... Compelling story written by Leo Tolstoy's lesser-known brother Alexis. 2010-11-24 The Horla [by Guy de Maupassant] After an unusual Brazilian ship enters the harbour - our hero suddenly begins to feel unwell, and starts to have feverish and di

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