
October 25, 2025
I visited Woodstock Public Library on the 21st and do admit to a few wrong turns on a spooky night along the way.
About 51 miles from Chicago, Woodstock was founded in the mid-1800s, and has that old, rural charm you can still find in outlying communities.
The library is a warm and lovely place and the folks who came to hear me talk braved a rainy night to do so.
Much appreciated.

But wait there's more!
At 5 p.m. Oct. 28 I'll be at the Park Forest Public Library. Visit the website for more information.
At 6 p.m. Oct. 30 I'll be Evergreen Park Public Library. You can find more information at the website.
It's been a blast doing these talks. The most I've done in one month. And half the fun is the journey to the libraries, even if I do make a wrong turn once in a while.
Any organization interested in booking a talk can visit my contact page and send me an email.
BOOKS:
Actual Factual Dracula:
A Compendium of Vampires
Theresa Bane
Anno Dracula
Kim Newman
Carmilla
Joseph Sheridan LeFanu
Carmilla: The Return
Kyle Marfinn
Dracul
J.D. Barker and Dacre Stoker
Drawing Dead:
Faolan O’Connor Book 1
Brian McKinley
Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled
Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to
Screen
David J. Skal
I Am Legend
Richard Matheson
In Search of Dracula:
The History of Dracula and Vampires
Raymond McNally and Radu Florescu
Lord of the Dead
Tom Holland
Necroscope
Brian Lumley
Night of the Dragon's Blood
William Pridgen
Parliament of Blood
Justin Richards
Return of the Wolfman
Jeff Rovin
Slayers and their Vampires:
A Cultural History of Killing the Dead
Bruce McClelland
Sundays with Vlad: From Pennsylvania to
Transylvania: One Man's Quest to Live
in the World of the Undead
Paul Bibeau
Sweetblood
Pete Hautman
The Encyclopedia of Werewolves,
Vampires and Other Monsters
Rosemary Ellen Guiley
The Gilda Stories
Jewelle Gomez
The Historian
Elizabeth Kostova
The Reformed Vampire Support Group
Catherine Jinks
The Strain
Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan
The Vampyre
John Polidori
Travel Fast: Stalking Vampires
from Nosferatu to Count Chocula
Eric Nuzum
Something in the Blood: The Untold Story
of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula
David J. Skal
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MOVIES:
Innocent Blood (1992)
Let the Right One In (2008)
Mad Monster Party (1967)
Near Dark (1987)
Thirst (2009)
The Night Watch (2004)
The Return of the Vampire (1943)
Vampyr (1932)
What We Do in the Shadows (2015)
Thirst (2009)
Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)
Abbott and Costello
Meet Frankenstein (1948)
30 Days of Night (2007)
Blade (1998)
Love at First Bite (1979)
The Lost Boys (1987)
Batman Vs Dracula (2005)
The Legend of the
Seven Golden Vampires (1974)
The Last Man on Earth (1964)
If you have a recommendation,
feel free to visit my comment page and send me an email.
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