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El Pueblo Fantasma – review
Director: Alfredo B. Crevenna Release Date: 1965 Contains spoilers Mexican vampire movies can be great fun and this one had an advantage being, also, part of the rare breed of Western vampire movies....
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Vampire Lore – review
Author: Jan Louis Perkowski First Published: 2006 Contains spoilers The Blurb: This omnibus volume collects under a single cover the entire oeuvre of writings by Jan Louis Perkowski on the vampire...
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Honourable Mention: The Count of Monte Cristo
Published in 1844 and written by Alexandre Dumas, père, The Count of Monte Cristo is one of Dumas’ most famous works (probably only topped by The Three Musketeers). It may seem strange, therefore, that...
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Crowd sourcing: Varney the Vampire
This is a crowd-sourcing project that I am rather excited about – indeed I have pledged to the project myself. The idea of taking Rymer’s Varney the Vampire, making him real, making him pigged-off that...
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Merlin – Lamia – review
Director: Justin Molotnikov First aired: 2011 Contains spoilers It is a bad sign when I record an episode for review and it takes me over two years to get around to that review. You see I never watched...
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Honourable Mention: Van Von Hunter
Van Von Hunter is a parody manga that was released in three volumes by Tokyo Pop. The series concentrated on Van, a vanquisher of evil and there is a vampire element in the series with one of Van’s...
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Nosferatu: Plague of Terror – review
Created by: Mark Ellis Designed by: Melissa Martin-Ellis Artwork: Rik Levins, Richard Pace and Frank Turner First published: 1991, 2009 trade pb Contains spoilersThe blurb: Nosferatu A chilly draft...
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Interesting Shorts: The Black Vampyre: A Legend of Saint Domingo
Recently I was contacted by blog reader Cappy who asked me who the first American vampire was (in a literary sense). I wasn’t 100% sure, but the earliest story I could think of was Ken’s Mystery by...
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Interesting Shorts: Pepopukin in Corsica
Also found in the Anthology, The Best Vampire Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Vampire Anthology is the story Pepopukin in Corsica. The story itself was published in 1826 in an Anthology series The Stanley...
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Vampire Stories: Brothers – review
Director: Hikaru Goto Release date: 2011 Contains spoilers Vampire Stories: Brothers was the first of two related films (with different casts, I understand) the second being Vampire Stories: Chasers. A...
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Classic Literature: The Vampires of London
The Blurb: "Who are you?" the panic-stricken man articulated, with feverish emphasis. "A vampire--who wants to live as you do, love as you do. I'm your dead brother. I emerge from my tomb every...
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Just the Vampire Hunter – review
Director: Dustin Leighton Release date: 2011 Contains spoilers I stumbled across this film as it had been uploaded to YouTube (it has now been removed due to a copyright claim, though I actually...
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The Devil’s Bed – review
Author: Doug Lamoreux Release date: 2011 Contains spoilers The blurb: What awaits Brandy in... The Devil's Bed? Brandy Petracus, touring a ruined castle in the south of France, is led to the unhallowed...
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Honourable Mention: Gamera: Guardian of the Universe
Having exercised our ‘Vamp or Not?’ muscles over the kaiju film Gamera Vs Gyaos and deciding that Gyaos was a vampiric bat, you’d have thought that looking at anything with Gyaos in would become easy....
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Interesting Shorts: The Blood Drinking Corpse
Whilst the first known English translation of this short story dates to 1913 (confirmed), therefore suggesting that it didn’t influence the developing vampire genre in the 19th Century, the interesting...
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Vamp or Not? Sinister Visions
Sinister Visions is an anthology film from 2013 and the segment that is the subject of this ‘Vamp or Not?’ was directed by Kim Sønderholm and was entitled Succubus. Now the succubus and vampire myths...
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GeGeGe no Kitarō: The Vampire Elite – review
Director: unknown First aired: 1996-98 Contains spoilers Apologies that the details are all a bit vague for the director and the date of this episode of the GeGeGe no Kitarō series. This was definitely...
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Interesting shorts: the Vampire; or, Pedro Pacheco and the Bruxa
This short story by William H G Kingston was published in his 1863 volume Tales for all Ages. Reportedly based on Portuguese lore, it is astounding for two primary reasons. Firstly because the vampire...
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Crowdsourcing News
A couple of new Crowdsourcing projects to highlight – and these two are ones I have backed myself, though the caveat at the side stands… All crowdsourcing projects are for awareness purposes and not an...
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Lost Girl – Season 3 – Review
Director: Various First aired: 2013 Contains spoilers I like the series Lost Girl, not a huge budget affair it nicely plots its own (slightly obscure) path. The First Season was satisfying TV and...
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