I suffer from occasional bouts of sleep paralysis, but thankfully they are very mild. Most of the time I can even “shake” myself out of a spell, by wiggling my foot until I build up enough momentum to wake myself. (Restless leg syndrome has one advantage, at least.) I’ve never experienced any of the hallucinations…

After publishing my interview last week with one of the founders of the “Save Waverly Hills” group, who alleged inappropriate if not illegal behavior on the part of members of the Waverly Hills Historic Society, I reached out to the latter—again—to see if they’d be interested in responding. They did reply this time—by sending me…

After a reader raised some legitimate concerns about the potential of some mentally ill person taking VAMPIRES IN AMERICA too seriously, and doing harm to some self-professing (but all too human) “vampire”, I decided to holla at my dawg Eric Streit, one of the vampire hunters from the pseudo-documentary VAMPIRES IN AMERICA, to get his…

Back in the 50s, Horror comics were all the rage. (Like TALES FROM THE CRYPT published by EC Comics, from which the television show took its name and inspiration.) Then along came this educated imbecile named Fredric Wertham who published a piece of propaganda entitled SEDUCTION OF THE INNOCENT making such ridiculous claims as Batman…

Walpurgisnacht falls each year on April 30th, and if you’ve read Bram Stoker’s classic novel DRACULA you should be familiar with it. Dracula celebrates it, marking the locations of buried treasures revealed by the blue flames they emanate on this night. Also, Jonathan Harker arrives at Castle Dracula on that night. Named for Saint Walpurga,…

It’s almost upon us! Walpurgisnacht, or Walpurgis Night, falls on the night of April 30th each year. By the time you’re reading this it may well have already occurred. Depending on where you live in the world, this may or may not be or have been a big deal. Where I live in the southern…

We all know that Whitby Abbey in Yorkshire (overlooking Whitby Harbor, where the DEMETER runs aground with all the crew dead and the captain tied to the steering wheel clutching a crucifix) plays a big part in the novel DRACULA. Now it is set to once again play a big part in Dracula history, as…

Here’s a bit of bummer news. That Dracula movie set to be helmed by Karyn Kusama (director of JENNIFER’S BODY) for Blumhouse has reportedly been scrapped. “Miramax is said to have exited, torpedoing what would have been a modern take on the mythos,” according to THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER. DEADLINE went into a little more detail,…

Here he is, Anne Rice’s vampire superstar, as he will appear in the new INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE series for AMC. Whatta you think? You can check out the teaser trailer here, too. You don’t get to see much, but what they do show us looks reaaaaaaaaally good. For a good look at Lestat, though,…

The headline of this linked article—“TikTok witches are accusing each other of being toxic, gatekeepers, and misinformation spreaders”—made me giggle. It’s nice to know it isn’t just the online vampire community that suffers from such public airing of dirty laundry, such show-it-to-the-world poor behavior. In fact of all the communities online with which I keep…