Friday, July 20, 2012

List of Vampire Tales in The Best Vampire Stories 1800-1849

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Back before there were sparkly vampires with waxed chests and gelled hair, there were the founding fathers of vampirism. These were the e...
Wednesday, June 20, 2012

My First Short Story Collection Wins Finalist Award in the International Book Awards

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My first collection of short stories, Mailboxes - Mansions - Memphistopheles , has won a finalist award in the International Best Book Awar...
Monday, June 4, 2012

Truths Contained in Popular Vampire Superstitions

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In 1847 Blackwood's Magazine published an article titled: "Letters on the Truths Contained in Popular Superstitions - Vampyrism....
Sunday, May 20, 2012

Midwest Book Review of The Best Vampire Short Stories 1800-1849 is Posted

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The Midwest Book Review has just published a glowing review of The Best Vampire Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Vampire Anthology - "...
Wednesday, May 16, 2012

The Unholy Compact Abjured Vampire Story by Charles Pigault-Lebrun )

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The Unholy Compact Abjured was published by French novelist Charles Pigault-Lebrun (1753-1835) in 1825. This is a very early vampire story ...
Sunday, May 6, 2012

Book Review of The Best Ghost Stories 1800-1849 Anthology

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It's not often that I post a review of one of my books in its entirety. In fact, I never do. Nicola Manning, however, has recently pu...
Tuesday, May 1, 2012

The Vampire Arnod Short Story of 1849 Link and Descrpition

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Not many vampire stories were published in the English language from 1800-1849. Those that were, however, are very interesting. One of them ...
Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Novel About Edgar Allan Poe's Life - Coffee with Poe by Andrew Barger is Out

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I am excited about The Raven , the new John Cusack movie about Edgar Allan Poe. It starts showing this Friday. In my view Poe does not get h...
Friday, April 20, 2012

Autographed Edition of The Best Vampire Stories 1800-1849 Being Offered on GoodReads

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For those of you who read this blog I wanted to let you know that an autographed edition of The Best Vampire Stories 1800-1849: A Classic...
Thursday, April 12, 2012

Did Edgar Allan Poe Write a Vampire Story?

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Edgar Allan Poe was the undisputed king of the early horror story. He was ten when John Polidori published the first vampire story in th...