In the Footsteps of Dracula: Tales of the Un-Dead Count, edited by Stephen Jones, is a vampire anthology with more than thirty chilling stories and novellas featuring Bram Stoker’s King of the Vampires: Count Dracula, Prince of Darkness! It’s October, which means it’s Halloween season. And what better way to celebrate the season than by…
Among police and detective stories, we've come to expect certain tropes: the Amateur Detective, the Genius Detective, the Good Cop Who Breaks All the Rules, The Supernatural Cop, and dare I say, the Vampire Detective. While Graveyard Shift's characters share many traits with the last, the one that stands out for me is the Buddy…
Only the Dead Know Brooklyn by Chris Vola is a tale about a vampire who must choose between love, revenge, and immortality (available May 30, 2017). Why not make yourself an “Only the Dead Drink Brooklyns” cocktail to sip while reading? Ryan Driggs has lived in Brooklyn for 128 years, 96 of them as one of the…
Blade is one of the older successful superhero films, appearing at a time when people had renewed interest in vampires. But, there has always been one thing that bothered me about the portrayal of vampires in Blade—they were weak. Much of the fear regarding vampires relies on the idea that they are nearly unstoppable forces,…
