The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Bram Stoker: 5-Contains the Novel 'The Snake's Pass,' Two Novelettes 'The Watter's Mou' and 'The Chain ... and Five Short Stories to Chill the Blood
Idol Chatter (Free subscription) | yesterday
... modern vampires we love different from the bloodsuckers we grew up with? "Dracula"--Bram Stoker's 1897 novel that was the model for "Nosferatu" and Bela Lugosi, and the vampires in the Twilight books--define the two ends of the vampire spectrum. Stoker was a Victorian, a Presbyterian writing in the Romantic tradition, which resisted scientific empiricism...
And Far Away (Free subscription) | yesterday
I have been a reader since I was a very young child. Before I learned to read, I would pester my mom endlessly to read to me. As soon as I learned to read, I read everything that my hands possibly found, often not understanding a single word. I guess during those early days of book exploring, I discovered vampires. It could have been R. L. Stine, it could have been abridged Bram Stoker,...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
You used to feel you knew about vampires. You put in the hours reading Byron, Bram Stoker and Sheridan Le Fanu, you watched Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee and George Hamilton (in Love at First Bite) deploying their mittel-European, Draculan accents ("Goot eeef-ning") and radiating elegant menace. And you picked up semi-scientific facts: vampires sleep during the day, are afraid...
Loving True Blood in Dallas (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
... This is as good a time as any for a brief survey of the vampire genre, which owes its existence to Bram Stoker's 1887 novel "Dracula." The earliest surviving vampire flick is "Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror," a 1922 silent by German F.W. Murnau. Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/movies/pains_in_the_neck_z7X6WwD8sqg8RGivfuSRYN#ixzz0XhZcBqN4
The Green Goblin Blog (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
... Romania next week. Gaiman’s writing has won numerous awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker, as well as the 2009 Newbery Medal. The extreme enthusiasm of his fans has led some to call him a “rock star” of the literary world. After forming a friendship with graphic novel writer Alan Moore, Gaiman started writing graphic novels, picking up Marvelman after...
Filmshaft.com (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
... boys interested: More of a focus on the supernatural elements of vampires and werewolves I’m sure Bram Stoker rolled over in his grave when sparkly, vegetarian vampires became the newest blood-sucking craze. Sure it took her two very long books to get to it, but in “Eclipse,” Stephenie Meyer finally delves into the history of her creatures and how they fit into the world as we know...
Loving True Blood in Dallas (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
... on our screens. The nineties saw the likes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Interview with a Vampire, Bram Stoker's Dracula as well as From Dusk Till Dawn. The 21st century has seen vampire fever take over with Van Helsing, more Buffy and now Twilight and True Blood. read on
MTV Movies Blog (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
... lie ahead. More of a focus on the supernatural elements of vampires and werewolves I'm sure Bram Stoker rolled over in his grave when sparkly, vegetarian vampires became the newest blood-sucking craze. Sure it took her two very long books to get to it, but in "Eclipse," Stephenie Meyer finally delves into the history of her creatures and how they fit into the world as we know it....
Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Current wisdom may suggest that 11 is a little young to be tackling a great deal, if not all, of the King oeuvre, but books such as Salem's Lot were but one element of a pre-adolescent appetite for the uncanny that encompassed novelisations of old Hammer films, dodgy Pan anthologies of horror fiction edited by the delightfully named Herbert Van Thal, and classics of the genre from Bram Stoker's...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Brett from small-press horror publisher Chizine sez, "ChiZine Publications (CZP) is an independent publisher of weird, surreal, subtle, and disturbing dark literary fiction hand-picked by Brett Alexander Savory and Sandra Kasturi, Bram Stoker Award-winning editors of ChiZine: Treatments of Light and Shade in Words. You've seen us mentioned recently here for books such as Lavie Tidhar...
Joanne Jacobs (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
... characters in action plots. This one stars H. Rider Haggard’s Allan Quatermain and Mina Murray of Bram Stoker’s Dracula , “teasing the reader in the know with appearances by Orwellian totalitarianism, Lovecraftian abominations, Jeeves and Wooster, Bulldog Drummond, Ian Fleming’s famed double-o operative, lusty Fanny Hill and a host of others,” says Publishers Weekly. Via PW’s The...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Brett from small-press horror publisher Chizine sez, "ChiZine Publications (CZP) is an independent publisher of weird, surreal, subtle, and disturbing dark literary fiction hand-picked by Brett Alexander Savory and Sandra Kasturi, Bram Stoker Award-winning editors of ChiZine: Treatments of Light and Shade in Words. You've seen us mentioned recently here for books such as Lavie Tidhar...
