Showing posts with label vampires. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vampires. Show all posts
Monday, November 10, 2014

Bram Stoker & Oscar Wilde Kiss & Tell

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After many years of lipstick kisses, Oscar Wilde moved to a new tomb in 2011 How did Bram Stoker and Oscar Wilde feel about kissing in t...
Wednesday, January 29, 2014

The Dialogue with Devils of 1890s Writers: Theurgy

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My quest to understand the spiritual nature of writers in London in the 1890s, who participated in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn...
Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Bram and Emily: Vampires to Werewolves

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Emily Gerard, sometimes known as Mrs de Laszowska, Emily Laszowska, Emily Gerard, or Emily de Laszowska Gerard, was a Scottish-born Vict...
Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Irish Legends and a Polish Vampire Graveyard

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Today, I'm using a story about a vampire graveyard to talk about a book by Oscar Wilde's mother. The connections between the stor...
Tuesday, July 2, 2013

The Arminius Vambery Myth

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After considering the German Professor in Dracula  and reviewing of Bram Stoker's personal life, I imagine a whole book can be written o...
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Sunday, April 28, 2013

The German Professor in Dracula

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Remember the German professor, Max Windschoeffel, in Dracula ? No? That's because there wasn't one. Bram Stoker wrote him out or, ra...
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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Bram Stoker on Abraham Lincoln

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I never would have guessed that Bram Stoker was an Amerophile, but he was. He aspired to learn the histories of all the American presidents ...
Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn

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Interest in alternative spirituality and the occult peaked before the Second World War, but mysticism was already becoming popular in the la...
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