Dracula Audiobook, Free

Yes. Bram Stoker published Dracula in 1897, and the copyright expired long ago, so the full text is free on Project Gutenberg for anyone to read or listen to. LoudReader has it built into the free catalog already, so there's no file to download or convert. You can hear a sample of the opening on the Dracula catalog page before you open the app.

It sounds like a computer reading, clearly and steadily, not like a radio horror production. LoudReader's narration is a synthetic voice, generated on your device with natural offline voices. Dracula is told through Jonathan Harker's journal, Mina's letters, Dr. Seward's phonograph diary, and newspaper clippings, an ensemble of documents in the original text, and LoudReader reads all of it in one consistent voice rather than a distinct cast per character. It won't build the slow dread the way a skilled full-cast production would. What it gives you is the entire epistolary novel narrated, start to finish, for free.

1. Download LoudReader from the App Store on your iPhone or Mac. Free, no account.
2. Open the built-in Project Gutenberg catalog and search the title, or go straight to the Dracula page to hear the sample first.
3. Tap the book. It downloads once, then plays offline after that.
4. Press play. LoudReader remembers your exact place every time.

Free listening on Dracula is unlimited, cover to cover. Premium adds playback speed from 0.3x to 3.0x, a sleep timer, and every other voice in the app, none of it required to finish the book.

Around 16.5 hours, based on the novel's roughly 148,400 words. That's a word-count estimate, not a measured recording time, the same figure shown on the book's own catalog page. It's one of the longer titles on this list, so it works well spread across a couple of weeks of commutes rather than one sitting. See how to listen to books while driving for the setup: import or open the book before you start the car, then control it entirely from the lock screen.