Dracula Archives

ESSAY: Lestat’s Precursors: Vampires in the American Canon

October 10, 2024

AMC’s Interview with the Vampire saw its second season this year, along with news that it had been renewed for a third season. There is evidently still life in the Anne Rice books which formed the basis of the series and gave the world the vampire antiheroes, Louis and Lestat.

Essays, Television and Film

Bang in the Coffin: Looking Back at Gatiss and Moffat’s Dracula

October 26, 2021

The BBC’s three-part adaptation of Dracula, written by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, did not air very long ago at all — just last year, in fact. However, it aired in the January of last year. This places it in the slice of 2020 termed pre-pandemic: an already antediluvian era that ...

Art & Design, Comics, Interviews

Ricardo Delgado’s Dracula of Transylvania Promises a Horrifying Yet Fun Addition to Vampire Lore

February 24, 2021

Ricardo Delgado is well-known for his comic series, Age of Reptiles comics and cites the paintings of Charles R. Knight’s as childhood inspiration. For his latest work, the film and comic artist draws on his childhood adoration of classic monster movies from Hammer and Universal studios, ...

Comics, Reviews

The Dracula File Offers Bite-Sized 1980s Horror

October 25, 2017

The Dracula File Gerry Finley-Day, Simon Furman and Ken Noble (writers); Eric Bradbury, Geoff Senior and Keith Page (artists) Rebellion: 2000 AD October 16, 2017 (Originally serialized in SCREAM! issues 1-15, 1984 and Holiday Specials 1985-1988) The Dracula File offers cozy horror nostalgia. ...

Essays

The Life and Times of Marya Zaleska, Dracula’s Daughter: Part Three

October 27, 2016

Having discussed the 1936 film Dracula’s Daughter in the first and second posts in this series, I shall now conclude with a look at the film’s afterlife in adaptations and derivative works. Dracula’s Daughter: The Novel The novelisation of Dracula’s Daughter was published by Berkley Books in ...

Essays

The Life and Times of Marya Zaleska, Dracula’s Daughter: Part Two

October 20, 2016

Having taken a look at the plot of the 1936 film Dracula’s Daughter in my previous article, I shall now discuss the origins of the film and make a closer examination of its themes. The Birth of Dracula’s Daughter The film started life as a proposed adaptation of “Dracula’s Guest” by Bram ...

Essays

The Life and Times of Marya Zaleska, Dracula’s Daughter: Part One

October 14, 2016

The classic horror films made by Universal had no shortage of monstrous men, such as Bela Lugosi’s Dracula and Boris Karloff’s Frankenstein’s monster. Monstrous women, on the other hand, were few and far between. The Bride of Frankenstein, iconic as she is, appears so briefly in her ...

Reviews

Look into the eyes of a skeleton: an analysis of frenums’ skeleton comics

November 8, 2013

I’m very sorry. In this post I’m going to be doing a lot of “explaining the joke.” I hope I don’t ruin it for you. I think humour can survive me. I want to talk to you about skeleton comics. Tumblr user and cartoonist frenums‘ bio starts like this: my name is ...

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Top 10: Frightened Blonde Woman Horror Comics

October 30, 2013

The golden-haired young woman flees a dark, secluded castle on a foggy night. Her long white gown would make a Hammer Horror starlet proud, but no matter how far she runs, there’s a vampire, a werewolf, or a man-monster called–TABOO! right behind her. If you’re a fan of vintage horror ...

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What’s Hot? September 2013

September 23, 2013

What’s hot? Well listen– You might have picked up the hints, reader, but let me confirm – we, your contributing team, are women! Women writing about comics. We share this shocking fact in the hope that publicly being Real Nerd Girls might help you/us/everybody forget anybody ...

Dracula

ESSAY: Lestat’s Precursors: Vampires in the American Canon

Bang in the Coffin: Looking Back at Gatiss and Moffat’s Dracula

Ricardo Delgado’s Dracula of Transylvania Promises a Horrifying Yet Fun Addition to Vampire Lore

The Dracula File Offers Bite-Sized 1980s Horror

The Life and Times of Marya Zaleska, Dracula’s Daughter: Part Three

The Life and Times of Marya Zaleska, Dracula’s Daughter: Part Two

The Life and Times of Marya Zaleska, Dracula’s Daughter: Part One

Look into the eyes of a skeleton: an analysis of frenums’ skeleton comics

Top 10: Frightened Blonde Woman Horror Comics

What’s Hot? September 2013

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