There was a time when vampires were easy to define: monsters lurking in the shadows, feeding off the living, heartless, soulless and terrifying. But over the years—particularly across television and film—that picture has changed. A lot. Somewhere along the way, the creatures of the night started showing signs of something deeper. Not just bloodlust, but […]
Sir Francis Varney—the verbose, brooding, and strangely sympathetic vampire at the heart of the Victorian penny dreadful Varney the Vampire; or, The Feast of Blood (1845–1847)—was there before Dracula or Barnabas Collins. Published in serialized form and attributed to James Malcolm Rymer (and possibly Thomas Peckett Prest), the story spans hundreds of chapters and over […]
One of Vampires & Slayers‘ other projects is a comic strip titled Media Geek & Friends, which essentially has some fun with pop culture. In the latest installment, “Media Geek & The Fang Club,” MG and his pal, Roddy (an intelligent, talking simian born as the result of being a chimp bitten by a radioactive […]
Thanks to an interview with bloody-disgusting.com, writer Mark B. Perry has confirmed that his sequel series to the original Dark Shadows, Dark Shadows: Reincarnation, is still being retooled and shopped around after ultimately not making the cut at the CW, more for scheduling reasons than anything else. He describes the premise this way: “We are […]
The Vampires & Slayers podcast kicks off with a special look at Dark Shadows, the 1966 to 1971 Gothic horror daytime soap opera. It starts with an exclusive interview with Mary O’Leary, director and producer of the documentary Dark Shadows and Beyond: The Jonathan Frid Story, focusing on the Canadian actor whose role as vampire […]