Dracula Receives The Sherlock Treatment Apparently, Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss have found their niche in doing slick adaptations of classic literature, because here they go again with Dracula. And Dracula’s first episode blew me away. It’s so rare now to get a truly gothic and horrific take on vampires and to see gore like…
Remember to enter our contest! Bleh! –Not the Editor (?) In the season five premiere of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buffy and the gang meet the infamous Dracula. Obviously, we’re all pretty skeptical until he goes poof, turns into a bat, and glamours Xander into his human slave. Before Dracula makes his appearance, however, the younger…
You thought you had done avay vith us. Vell, you vere wrong. Ve have returned. Bleh. For those of you who are new to this, allow me to introduce myself. My name is Count Spatula! Bleh! Not long ago I vas the host of this magazine’s Veek of Blood. After being abstracted from the site, I vowed…
The Day of Blood continues. –Count Spatula The idea of letting someone bite into your neck in order to drain blood from it is, in reality, pretty disgusting, as well as life-threatening. That being said, it is apparently becoming more and more popular in the film and television world to have us allow vampires to stick to…
You have to understand that I was not on this team. When I read the words Dracula Untold, it had the same effect on me as reading Leprechaun: Back 2 tha Hood or Leprechaun in Space (please google these monstrosities, children). I clicked on the trailer because what the hell, why not? I see this…
If you’re really looking for something dreadful to watch, I recommend Showtime’s Victorian horror series Penny Dreadful. Not to be confused with the 2006 automobile horror film of the same name, Penny Dreadful boasts a star-studded cast of actors to inhabit its equally impressive roster of literary heroes. So far, it echoes the gorgeously gory…
SPOILER ALERT: I WILL SPOIL YOUR SOUL AWAY IF YOU LET ME. I WILL RUIN YOUR LIFE. IF YOU ARE NOT CAUGHT UP?RUN. The Plot. We left season one with so much madness happening. It’s unclear where Dracula’s writers will go with the story. However, that’s a good thing because it leaves open a universe…
Is genre writing, particularly science fiction and fantasy literature? Recently it has become a topic of hot debate among the creative writing big wigs. One side believes that no, fantasy and science fiction are not literature, period. The other side thinks that they can be. What is literature? Literature is defined as: “writings in which…
