September 30th, 2009 §
Hey there readers, now most of you know who Charlaine Harris is and most of you have also watched the HBO show True Blood. But if you don’t or haven’t let me fill you in real quick. Charlaine Harris wrote the Sookie Stackhouse vampire series and the show True Blood is based on those books. [...]
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September 30th, 2009 §
Bathory weaves a thought-provoking alternate tale of the infamous Countess Báthory Erzsébet. Was she a victim of religious political conspiracy and greed? Whatever you believe, the movie provides potential answers to the stories of legend about the vampire countess. A sub-plot reveals a romantic relationship between the countess and Caravaggio, yes, the [...]
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September 29th, 2009 §
Ok ok so I am a little late with this post since Talk Like a Pirate Day is September 19, my apologies, but either way this excellent book series is going to get mentioned in honor of Talk Like a Pirate Day. Today’s book spotlight is on an ongoing series that has been out for [...]
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September 28th, 2009 §
I love to go back in time, –to the 80’s, when clothes were wild, hair was huge, jewelry was plastic and abundant, and V.C. Andrews was considered popular enough to inspire a movie starring Kristy Swanson, –you might remember her from an equally low budget, made for television movie called “Mr. Boogedy.” In Flowers in [...]
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September 28th, 2009 §
Look at this guy; smart-looking, –we say “looking” because he is, after all, an actor. It’s Robert Sean Leonard, all starched and clean, and cute. He’s suave, he’s charismatic, and he plays Greg House’s right hand man on House, M.D.. But did you know, he also once checked to make sure he wasn’t castrated in [...]
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September 28th, 2009 §
Have any of you ever considered starting a vampire research group? You wouldn’t be the first. Nope, in fact on February 2, 1970 the Vampire Research Society was founded by Sean Manchester (pictured left).
At the time of its founding, Manchester was the director of an occult investigation bureau, which is now non-operational. For the first [...]
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September 28th, 2009 §
We’re at Sookie’s house, or actually, in the yard, where Daphne is leading an awestruck Sam into the woods to explain to him why she knows “what” Sam is. While she walks, she drops one article of clothing at a time, and Sam makes a half-hearted attempt to be in total denial. Daphne patronizes him [...]
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September 27th, 2009 §
I have covered so many different vampire species of lore from all around the world, and today I’ll write about yet another flavor of vampire. Today’s vampire myth takes us to Brazil, the land of vast gorgeous rainforests and long stretching beaches. The vampire species is that of the feared Pishtaco (in my head I [...]
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September 26th, 2009 §
Remember ‘The Lost Boys‘? The super popular 1987 cult hit vampire movie with Corey Feldman and Kiefer Sutherland. “Sleep all day. Party all night. Never grow old. Never die. It’s fun to be a vampire.” Of course you remember, everyone knows about The Lost Boys. It’s one of those vampire flicks that damn near everyone [...]
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September 25th, 2009 §
Movie rumors, you gotta love ‘em right? Well the latest vampire movie rumor is that the immensely popular book, The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova, is being made into a movie. The Historian came out a few years ago and became a huge hit right off the bat, so making it into a movie isn’t a [...]
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