I’ve seen this in a local coffeeshop, though it was just an acoustic guitarist.
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I’ve seen this in a local coffeeshop, though it was just an acoustic guitarist.
A fellowship for all you vampire short story authors:
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Great discussion on William Crain, Blacula, Sinners, and the strange case of the “vampire” sailor James Brown, with Bruce and Tracey!
The Ghostly Gallery Podcast | William Crain’s Untold Legacy | Vampires & Horror History with “Toothpickings”! www.podbean.com/ei/pb-xhb6z-...
I need to post here more, but Twitter hurt me so much that I’m having difficulty trusting social media again.
I prefer the American version
Nice to see it on a big screen again!
Looking forward to talking Blacula on Vamp Chat with Dan & Eva tonight at 7pm central!
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We’re used to the notion that vampire folklore led to vampire fiction. But what if the flow if influence reversed? Nina Trzaska had been studying vampire folklore in Greece for years and has uncovered some surprising sources of inspiration for more recent folk tales!
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When did silver bullets become a thing? And other vampire/werewolf motifs with Prof Bob Carlisle
Somerset was a slave in Jamaica who’s master brought him along to England in the 1770s, where slavery was outlawed. After getting baptized, Somerset declared himself free.
The phrase was a real crowd pleaser, for Curran. It’s no wonder later abolitionists wove it into their own writings
But instead they all probably borrowed the phrase from Irish lawyer John Philpot Curran, who deployed it often, especially during his defense of self-emancipated slave James Somerset.
Did Stowe and Douglass borrow this phrase from my favorite obscure vampire novella by an uncertain author?
That would’ve been cool
There’s a phrase employed by both Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass that’s found decades earlier in “The Black Vampyre”
“…disenthralled by the irresistible genius of universal emancipation!”
That entire viral moment led to this meme. Worth it.
I may not be a vampire hunter or a zombie sniper, but if the ghouls would only stand perfectly still at 20 yards or less, I’ve got a 1-in-6 chance at a killshot.
CONvergence 2025 was a blast! More updates to come, but wanted to share a photo from this complex and faithful game “Dracula 1897” made by local creator David Allison.
When I wrote about the origins of Renfield for www.dbspress.com/shop-1/p/dra..., I never thought I’d get a chance to actually walk on the street I’d pointed out as being a possible point of inspiration for Stoker.
But luck revealed two fangs when it smiled:
Further reading: "Hunting the Monster with Iron Teeth"
by Sandy Hobbs and David Cornwell gwern.net/doc/sociolog...
But David Castleton at The Serpents Blog suggested that the "iron teeth" aspect had much deeper roots in Glasgow: "Jenny With The Iron Teeth" circulated for generations earlier. Jenny kidnapped children for her meals. Alexander Anderson penned a poem about her in 1911.
Paul Gallagher at Dangerous Minds identified a comic book that might actually have inspired the fear-- a copy of Weird Tales from the previous year
If you thought Slenderman and deadly Grimaces were new, you're wrong. And if you think mob hysteria is a thing only adults do after sports events or political rallies, you're also wrong.
But the children returned a second night, absolutely certain that the iron-toothed monster was hungry for more innocent blood.
Authorities blamed the usual suspects-- movies and comic books
(articles from The Boston Daily Globe and The Birmingham (UK) Post)
Hundreds of kids scaled the walls of the cemetery, armed with rocks and sticks, convinced that the graveyard held a vampire who had already killed two children.
The hunt for what? A 7' tall vampire with iron teeth!
In 1954, hordes of schoolchildren were reported to have swarmed the Southern Necropolis in the Glasgow borough of Gorbals. They were on the hunt.
