Category Archives: vampire

Forthcoming Interview with David Lee Fisher on “Nosferatu”

November 7th, 2014 | Posted in horror, independent horror films, Nosferatu, vampire

Have you heard about the forthcoming independent horror film Nosferatu that will star Doug Jones? TheoFantastique will be interviewing the director David Lee Fisher soon. Take a look at the trailer and consider getting involved in their Kickstarter campaign to finance this film.

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Call for Papers – Daughters of Fangdom: A Conference on Women and the Television Vampire

October 13th, 2014 | Posted in call for papers, conference, vampire

Courtesy of Open Graves, Open Minds Daughter of Fangdom: A Conference on Women and the Television Vampire 18 April 2015 The University of Roehampton London Following the success of TV Fangdom: A Conference on Television Vampires in 2013, the organisers announce a follow-up one-day conference, Daughter of Fangdom: A Conference on Women and the Television […]

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Open Graves, Open Minds update

August 30th, 2014 | Posted in Bram Stoker, conference, Dracula, Open Graves Open Minds, undead, vampire, werewolf

Previously TheoFantastique has noted the conference and publishing work of Open Graves, Open Minds. This post shares a recent update received on their work, including a book and conference. OPEN GRAVES, OPEN MINDS relates the Undead in literature and other media to questions concerning genre, technology, consumption and social change. It features original research by leading […]

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Titles of Interest – “The Vampire in Science Fiction Film and Literature”

August 2nd, 2014 | Posted in Paul Meehan, science fiction, Titles of Interest, vampire

Paul Meehan is a friend of TheoFantastique who has been interviewed and contributed guest essays here previously. I am currently reading his latest book for a review in the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. The book is The Vampire in Science Fiction Film and Literature (McFarland, 2014). Vampires have been a popular subject […]

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Contagious Vampires and Impotent Religion in “The Strain”

August 2nd, 2014 | Posted in Christianity, Guillermo del Toro, religion, vampire

I finally had a chance to watch the first three episodes of The Strain after recording them. I am a big fan of Guillermo del Toro, including the material he produces. The television series is, of course, based on the 2009 novel by del Toro and Chuck Hogan. It incorporates  some of the vampire conceptions […]

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Titles of Interest – ‘The Birth of the Dracula Myth: Bram Stoker’s Transylvania’

April 20th, 2014 | Posted in Dracula, Titles of Interest, vampire

I just learned of the following volume, one difficult to find information about online. The following comes from an abstract and other online information by Marius-Mircea Crisjan. The volume Impactul uni mit: Dracula și reprezentarea ficțională a spațiului românesc (The Impact of a Myth: Dracula and the Fictional representation of the Romanian space) is an […]

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Margot Adler’s “Vampires Are Us”

April 5th, 2014 | Posted in Titles of Interest, vampire

Margot Adler has written a volume titled Vampires Are Us: Understanding Our Love Affair with the Immortal Dark Side (Weiser Books, 2014). The synopsis and promotional statements include: In a culture that does not do death particularly well, we are obsessed with mortality. Margot Adler writes, “Vampires let us play with death and the issue […]

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Seriously Staked Vampire Symposium

January 21st, 2014 | Posted in conference, vampire

Seriously Staked Vampire Symposium Look beyond the Twilight and True Blood frenzy and there is, and always has been, a serious study of vampires. Seriously Staked brings together a wide variety of subject experts and academics to talk about a range of questions concerning vampires. These include: Can science explain vampires? Do real vampire hunting […]

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Monstrous Commercials

August 18th, 2013 | Posted in monsters, television, vampire, zombie
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“Ultraviolet’s” Vampires and the ‘War on Terror’

August 3rd, 2013 | Posted in Gothic horror, horror, horror studies, vampire

The current edition of Gothic Studies is available, Volume 15, No. 1 (May 2013), published by Manchester University Press. It focuses on vampires and the undead in popular culture, and several essays caught my eye for download in PDF for later reading. I recently finished reading the first of them, and it is David McWilliam’s […]

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