News, Events and Fun Stuff

I had so much fun this month with the vampire talks. October 30 marked the last one in the tour with a very receptive audience at Evergreen Park Public Library. Interestingly I drove past Haunted Trails Miniature Golf and Entertainment Center in Burbank on the way. 

I'm grateful to Nadia Ullrich at Grayslake Public Library, Leticia Goluba at Woodstock Public Library, Sarah Weiner at Park Forest Public Library, and Amanda Gaston at Evergreen Park Public Library, as well as the folks behind Hallow-fest for inviting me to talk at their programs. They were all wonderful to deal with and made it fun and enjoyable.

November should be a quiet month as I regroup and get ready for the holidays to come. This is my favorite time of year.

I'll also be working on a project that I've been wanting to implement for a couple of years now.  It's a big one, and a bit involved, but if all goes well, it'll be up and running by next year. 

I'll keep you posted. 

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.