Murray Mysteries is a scripted podcast written, and directed by May Toudic, and is the debut production from Knöves Storytelling. It is a modernised, queer adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula. 46 main episodes were released across 3 seasons, from April 2021 to March 2022.
"Mina Murray is an unemployed twenty-something, jigsaw puzzler, and brand new Podcaster. Her life doesn’t exactly make for interesting content. That is until her best friend Lucy falls mysteriously ill and Mina’s boyfriend Jonathan loses contact on a work trip to Castle Dracula…"
Tropes in this series include:
- Acting for Two: Tom Magennis plays both Jonathan Harker and Quincey Morris.
- Adaptational Gender Identity: Stoker’s cisgender Arthur becomes the non-binary Art.
- Adaptational Sexuality:
- Mina is bisexual.
- Jane is gay.
- Lucy is pansexual.
- Jonathan is asexual.
- Gender Flip: Dr. Seward and Van Helsing are both female here.
- Love Dodecahedron: Lucy is torn between Quincey Morris, Jane Seward and Art Holmwood.
- Setting Update: The setting is transplanted from the Victorian era to the 2020s.
- Spared by the Adaptation: Quincey survives his encounter with Drac in the finale.