2018 marks the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, started during a story contest between Shelley and several other writers staying at Lake Geneva. To celebrate this book, I'm doing a series of posts about Frankenstein and two other stories that came from this contest. Here's where you can read the previous post. Before …
It wouldn't be Halloween without at least one vampire joke. This Halloween, I give you one about Dracula and what late-night drinking looks like when you're a vampire: https://tapas.io/episode/1143149
What do Dr. Who, Star Wars and Sherlock Holmes have in common? The actor Peter Cushing. In a recent Odyssey article, I talk about some of Cushing's most memorable roles, from playing Grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars: A New Hope to playing vampire hunter Van Helsing in various Dracula films. Check it out here: https://www.theodysseyonline.com/top-10-peter-cushing-movies
Last month, I promised in a blog that I would analyze a classic Universal Monter movie around October's end. Here, I discuss the 1931 movie Dracula, starring Bela Lugosi as the fanged prince of darkness, and how the movie actually says something very positive about good and evil. Here it is: https://www.theodysseyonline.com/what-dracula-shows-about-evil
With Halloween coming up next month, I decided to finish watching Universal Studios' best-known monster movies (Frankenstein, Dracula, The Invisible Man, The Mummy, The Creature from the Black Lagoon). I've already mentioned one of these movies in a recent article, and plan to analyze another in an article I'll release at the end of October. For now, …
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