Showing posts with label Vampires. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vampires. Show all posts
Thursday, December 04, 2025

The Lady of the Shroud

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Everybody knows about Bram Stoker’s DRACULA (1897). Few vampire fans, however, much less general readers, are familiar with what might be ca...
Thursday, November 20, 2025

Shattered Glass

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Elaine Bergstrom's richly detailed "vampire as alien" series begins with SHATTERED GLASS (1989), first published although no...
Thursday, October 16, 2025

I Am Legend

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I don't need to summarize the plot of Richard Matheson's I AM LEGEND (1954), since Karen did it so thoroughly last week. If your onl...
Friday, October 10, 2025

Oldies But Goodies {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: I Am Legend by Richard Matheson by Karen S. Wiesner

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  Oldies But Goodies {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: I Am Legend by Richard Matheson by Karen S. Wiesner       Be aw...
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Thursday, September 25, 2025

Blood and Roses

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If you want to read a delightful novel that might be described as "Jane Austen meets Bram Stoker," published long before the more ...
Thursday, September 18, 2025

Some of Your Blood

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Classic SF, fantasy, and horror author Theodore Sturgeon’s unique short novel SOME OF YOUR BLOOD (1961) -- perhaps less remembered than it s...
Thursday, September 04, 2025

Fevre Dream

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A science-fiction explanation for vampire biology. Richly detailed historical fiction set in the antebellum South. A bond of friendship deve...
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Thursday, August 28, 2025

The Dracula Tape

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The fanfic impulse often expresses itself by a flip of perspective that turns the villain of a classic work into the protagonist -- an antih...
Thursday, August 21, 2025

Attack of the Bloodsucking Plants

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The September-October issue of SKEPTICAL INQUIRER contains an article about the "Vegetable Man of West Virginia." This alleged cry...
Thursday, August 14, 2025

The Vampire as Alien

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In horror fiction and dark fantasy, we encounter two main types of scientifically explained vampires -- vampirism as an infectious disease o...
Thursday, April 03, 2025

What's Horror For?

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As I mentioned last week, one of the speakers at this year's ICFA proposed that horror articulates feelings and experiences for which we...
Thursday, March 27, 2025

ICFA 46

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The 46th annual International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts was held in its usual Orlando hotel last week. Guests of honor were Si...
Thursday, March 21, 2024

45th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts

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I've just returned from the ICFA in Orlando, with perfect weather all four days (five counting Sunday morning departure). This year'...
Thursday, February 02, 2023

Vampires Rule

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I recently read a novel with an unusual slant on a world ruled by vampires, DAY BOY, by Trent Jamieson. It takes place in a rather dreary po...
Tuesday, February 09, 2021

Worldbuilding For Multiple Alternate Universes Part 4 How To Make Ghosts Vampires and Demons Real

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Worldbuilding For Multiple Alternate Universes Part 4 How To Make Ghosts, Vampires, and Demons Real  Previous parts in this series are: Part...
Thursday, October 22, 2020

Horror as a Coping Mechanism

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It comes as no surprise to me that a recent psychological study suggests horror fans may be uniquely well prepared to confront scary realiti...
Thursday, October 08, 2020

Stubborn Skepticism Versus Indiscriminate Gullibility

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Working on a paranormal romance novella, I'm presently dealing with a recurrent problem in fiction of the fantastic: How long should a c...
Thursday, May 09, 2019

Reformed Villains

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I love a good "redeemed villain" story, but creating a good (i.e., plausible and emotionally engaging) one isn't easy. The chi...
Thursday, April 04, 2019

The Vampire as Alien

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I'm thrilled that my nonfiction book DIFFERENT BLOOD: THE VAMPIRE AS ALIEN is back on the market at last. It's been re-released by a...
Thursday, March 21, 2019

International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts

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Last Wednesday through Saturday, the 2019 ICFA met in Orlando. As usual, it was wonderful to spend four days in Florida in March. Days were ...