Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror

by Jonathan Miller

A shadow rises in the Carpathian mountains. Death travels by moonlight. And one woman’s dreams may hold the key to stopping the darkness.

A Symphony of Horror is a haunting literary reimagining of F.W. Murnau’s silent film masterpiece—expanded, reinterpreted, and brought vividly to life.

When young real estate clerk Thomas Hutter journeys from the quiet town of Wisborg to a remote castle in Transylvania, he expects only business. What he finds instead is a terrifying figure out of nightmare—Count Orlok, a man with a hunger far older and darker than legend. As the shadows deepen and strange dreams plague Hutter’s wife, Ellen, the lines between life and death, reality and myth, begin to blur.

Rich in gothic atmosphere, poetic prose, and psychological dread, this novel explores the deeper emotions and fears only hinted at in the original 1922 silent film. A tribute to cinematic horror and classic vampire lore, Nosferatu is both faithful homage and wholly original expansion.

Perfect for fans of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Shirley Jackson, and modern literary horror, this adaptation will pull you into a chilling world where the shadows breathe, and the dead do not sleep.

237 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 24, 2025

About the author

Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller CBE was a British theatre and opera director, author, television presenter, humorist and sculptor. Trained as a physician in the late 1950s, he first came to prominence in the 1960s with his role in the comedy review Beyond the Fringe with fellow writers and performers Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and Alan Bennett. Despite having seen few operas and not knowing how to read music, he began stage-directing them in the 1970s and became one of the world's leading opera directors with several classic productions to his credit. His best-known production is probably his 1982 "Mafia"-styled Rigoletto set in 1950s Little Italy, Manhattan. He was also a well-known television personality and familiar public intellectual in the UK and US.