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[Innsmouth Free Press] Innsmouth Free Press » Interview: Joseph A. Citro: Here in Vermont, ghosts have been part of the landscape for hundreds of years, since long before Champlain sailed down the lake. Those early Native American spirits are still with us, though they’ve been upstaged by specters of every ethnic persuasion, marking each phase of Vermont’s historical development.

[Penguin Blog (USA) - Penguin Group (USA) -] Vlad the Impaler, the Violent Inspiration for Count Dracula, by ...: Now why would I choose such a man to be the central character (I retreat from calling him the protagonist) of my first graphic novel?  My answer, to begin with,  is embarrassing.  You see, I was researching a person named Janos Hunyadi, known as the White Knight-and who incidentally makes a bloody appearance in the book-and came across the story of Vlad.  To tell the awful truth, I had never heard of Vlad before. 

[Juno Books] Vampires, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and Stephenie Meyer's Twilight ...: However, I have these two articles (one on Anne Rice, the other on Interview With the Vampire) due for an encyclopedia) which should have been done long ago (sorry, Mr Joshi) and have had a small portion of my brain considering fangsters for weeks. And, of course, I had to go back and re-read Rice’s work, which also makes one contemplate vampire literary history.

[The Audiobook Vault] The Audiobook Vault » Blog Archive » Dracula BBC Radio 1979: BBC Radio 4 dramatisation, of Bram Stoker’s Dracula was first broadcast in seven episodes. The classic vampire tale set in Transylvania and told through the diaries of a young solicitor, his fiancee and her friend, and the superintendent of a large lunatic asylum.

[Witch of Portobello] Q&A « Paulo Coelho's Blog: Concerning this new piece of work, I think that you’re revealing the true nature of women that is to say I can identifie as a man at that character Athena.What I want to say simply it’s that men will call certain women Witches because they’re revealing the dark side of us men which we cannot faceand get afraid.But they ‘re incounsciousally doing this to please us, they’re the part of man we have too many times rejected.In the end I can say the same thing about the women who reject the part of manhood they ‘ve got calling them that time assholes.

[Guardian Unlimited: Arts blog - books] Join the world literature tour to Romania | Books | guardian.co.uk: On the other hand, Ion Luca Caragiale , who was contemporary with Eminescu( and rivals because they both loved the same woman, Veronica Micle), was a Romanian playwright and short story writer. His plays are characterised by a classical construction and a very acute observation of the social realities of the time, always mixed with a fine sense of irony and political touches .

[Infinite Summer: Dracula] Infinite Summer: Dracula » Blog Archive » Elizabeth Miller ...: The explosion of scholarly interest in what for decades was dismissed as an inferior novel is both a measure of Dracula’s significant contribution to the bridging of the gap between popular and elitist writing and an indication of the enduring power of the myth that Stoker borrowed and reshaped, a myth that resonates in different ways for each generation, inviting them to confront their own fears, anxieties and desires. Dracula has managed to implant itself firmly in our cultural consciousness.

[Mind the Gap] In which literature receives a much-needed geek chic boost: The ...: , from Viennese cafés to the blasted borderlands of the Soviet Union. But as Lena chases his story across the world, she is also trying to outrun the buried motives that drive her.

[buzzymultimedia.com Blog] Pamela K. Kinney Interview, Sapphire Phelan, Ghost Stories ...: except this is for all over Virginia and not just ghostly legends and myths, but Civil War myths and legends, myths of famous Virginians, urban legends (like the infamous Bunnyman and the Bunnyman Bridge or the urban legend of how dogs and sailors are not allowed on the grass in Norfolk, Virginia). Plus the ghostly ones too, and the true stories that seem like myths but aren’t and are still told to this day.

[Pajamas Media] Pajamas Media » NCIS Goes PC: When someone knocked on my study door, I would utter an imperious “Come!” Issuing an instruction or request, I would add the tag “Make it so” or “Engage.” As for Count Duckula, I envied him his Igor, who would invariably respond to a summons or command in a reassuring and compliant baritone with “Yes, young master.” I’ve always wanted to have an Igor of my own, a “batman” as he used to be known, who would address me unfailingly as “young master.” It has a consoling ring to it.

[Nathan Bransford - Literary Agent] Nathan Bransford - Literary Agent: [blank] Are the New Vampires: "Beginning in March 2010, American Vampire, a comic from Vertigo (DC Comics), will be released each month, including two stories: one by short story writer Scott Snyder and the other by Stephen King." - Publishing Trends, November 2009

[Anthony Bourdain] Tony's Travel Journal: You see Tony, I very well could be typing this to nobody other than the several other commentators, however if you do read this, I think you should be reminded that there are people who watch the show for more than the random insults fired at random celebrities, for more than the drinking and cursing, but for you, Tony. It's refreshing in a time of facades and mouths sewn shut, with nervous eyes averted.

[JonathanRosenbaum.com] JonathanRosenbaum.com » Blog Archive » Moviegoing at Cannes ...: Although several viewers seem to dismiss Susan Sontag’s Brother Carl as an imitation of Bergman at his shrillest, any cursory inspection will turn up equally strong (and similarly non-essential) echoes of Whale’s Frankenstein, Antonioni, and Dreyer. Unlike her thumbless four-finger exercise, Duet for Cannibals, Brother Carl does not fully achieve what it sets out to do, but the scope of its ambition is so much wider that one can find its failure far worthier than the modest success of her first film.

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