Friday, November 28, 2014

Scary Way the Polish Buried People to Prevent Vampires

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(NEWSER) – To make sure certain people didn't rise from the grave to feast on the living, villagers in 17th- and 18th-century Poland...
Sunday, October 26, 2014

Get a scary 15% off my equally scary books at Barnes & Noble

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Tuesday, October 21, 2014

"Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination" at the British Library

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The British Library is doing what hundreds of other libraries around the world should be doing this time of year. It is hosting "Ter...
Saturday, June 14, 2014

Did Edgar Allan Poe Have a Favorite Ghost Story?

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Poe was a connoisseur of the supernatural. As the author of  Coffee with Poe: A Novel of Edgar Allan Poe's Life , I am sometimes ask...
Sunday, June 8, 2014

Metamorphosis by Kafka and His Family

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To me, at least in his later years, Franz Kafka was our whiny man of literature. This is never so true as when he berated his family duri...
Saturday, June 7, 2014

What was the first out of body experience story?

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Richard Harris Barham (1788-1845) One of the first short stories in the English language to feature an out of body experience is  A Sin...
Friday, May 2, 2014

Ring Up 15% Off My Scary Books at Barnes & Noble This Weekend

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Saturday, April 26, 2014

New Poe Statue in Boston with Tell-Tale Heart Feature

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Any attention brought to Poe is much needed in this country, over two hundred years after the birth of one of its greatest and most myste...
Monday, April 21, 2014

Coldplay's New Album--Ghost Stories--Drops in May

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Coldplay's new album is called "Ghost Stories"and it drops in May. Let's hope some of the yet to be released songs dr...
Saturday, April 12, 2014

First Vampire Short Story Set in France - Pepopukin in Corsica

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Arthur Young (1741-1820) What was the first vampire short story with a setting in France? In the English language it appears to be ...