Exclusive Interview with Brian McKinley

March 2013 marks the month for a blog tour of Brian McKinley’s epic novel of love and undead, Ancient Blood. I managed an interview with the author, whose book I reviewed in December. What seems to you special about Ancient Blood, so much so you took the time and effort to put that many words on…

Your Thoughts on The Vampire Diaries ‘Bring It On’

The Vampire Diaries is finally back from hiatus! The show returned last night with episode 4.16 “Bring It On,” and well, it really wasn’t the episode I was hoping for. But more into that below. Check out my thoughts on the episode and please share your own. Official episode description for “Bring It On:” “THE…

True Blood Season 5 DVD Release Date Announced

HBO has finally shared the DVD release date for Season 5 of True Blood! The big day is – May 21, 2013. Along with each bloodied episode, the DVD pack also comes with an assortment of bonus goodies. Check out the details below. Description: “Returning for its fifth season, True Blood is HBO’s sexy, scary,…

Best Undead on TV

Just for fun, here’s a list of excellent–some might even say “best”–vampires to be found on television. A personal list to be sure, but offered with sincerity. Your own views most welcome as well! Buffy the Vampire Slayer has so many great vampire characters I force myself to just choose two–the Sid Vicious and Nancy…

Review of Vitriol the Hunter #1

Vitriol the Hunter is a vampire comic mini-series co-written and pencilled by Billy Martin of the band Good Charlotte. Vitriol has been a long time in the making… a long time. The comic was first announced in July of 2009 with a targeted release date of February, 2010, and well, instead it came out last…

Lets Remake “Queen of Blood”

For the record, anyone who wants to use ideas in this article may do so without further permission from nor compensation to the author. Re-watching Prometheus the other night, my mind went back to another example of science fiction/horror, this one from 1966.  Queen of Blood certainly comes across as the most schlocky kind of…

Breaking Dawn 1 & 2 Finally Get A Hilarious Honest Trailer

I love Honest Trailers! Don’t know what that is? Clearly you don’t live in internet land like I do. Well my poor deprived reader, Honest Trailers are… honest trailers. Yup. These trailers are created by Screen Junkies and they are simply movie trailers remade into something a bit more truthful (and totally hilarious). They FINALLY…

Sexy New Vampire Added to True Blood Season 6

Since True Blood isn’t True Blood without a plethora of totally unnecessary new characters added to the already crowded cast, I have another newbie to announce! I already shared the previous five new additions here. Today we got word of a sixth, a vampire named Wes, a vampire who will be part of yet another…

The Obscene and Banned Poetry of Charles Baudelaire

Sex, blood and death can be found in the twisted works of poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) and while some found these poems captivating, others felt that they were positively obscene. In the 1857 original edition of Flowers of Evil, the influential poet wrote two poems, “The Vampire” and “Metamorphoses of the Vampire.” These vampire poems…

Paul Barber’s Theory on the Existance of Vampires

There was once a time in history when nearly everyone believed in the existence of vampires. Virtually every country and every culture has their own vampire myths and legends. You can find vampire folklore throughout the world. But there is more than just folklore, hundreds of years ago there were countless cases of real vampirism…