Sunday, 7 February 2016

The vampire as European myth

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Prof. Dr. Thomas Bohn of the Justig Liebig University in Giessen , Germany, who has previously published a few papers on vampires and co-...
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Sunday, 25 October 2015

After 135 years: Sava Savanovic in English

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Although so many pieces of vampire fiction have been compiled and published over the past decades, Serb author  Milovan Glišić ’s Posle de...
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Saturday, 3 January 2015

A disinterested appraisal of Summers-ism

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Back in 2011, I wrote two posts on ’a critical edition’ of Montague Summers ’s The Vampire: His Kith and Kin edited by John Edgar Browning...
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Friday, 24 October 2014

Britain's Midnight Hour

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BBC joins the British Library in celebrating 250 years of gothic in the arts . For more information see this overview . I am personally...
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Tuesday, 14 October 2014

Habsburg maps of Kisolova and Frey Hermersdorf online

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Thanks to an international co-operation between a number of archives, including the Austrian State Archives , historical maps of the Habs...
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Saturday, 4 October 2014

Styrian settings

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Styrian Schloss Hainfeld from German Wikipedia ’Vampire stories are generally set in Styria ,’ wrote Eric, Count Stenbock in 1894 in A ...
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Sunday, 21 September 2014

Albania's Mountain Queen

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'Whilst young ladies in the Victorian and Edwardian eras were expected to have many creative accomplishments, they were not expected t...
Sunday, 17 August 2014

Revenant - from Italy

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Since Emilio de' Rossignoli published his groundbreaking Io credo nei vampiri  back in 1961, a number of books on revenants and vampi...
Monday, 4 August 2014

A Horrible Incident, a Delightful Find

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The 2013 Dracula exhibition in Milano , Dracula e il mito dei vampiri , recently moved East, opening in a new reincarnation at the Nation...
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Sunday, 22 June 2014

The Gothic Imagination

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2014 marks the 250th anniversary of Horace Walpole 's The Castle of Otranto , usually celebrated as the first Gothic novel. The Briti...
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