“For creatures that supposedly crave the darkness, vampires seem to be getting more than their fair share of the spotlight.”

Depending on whom you ask, vampire stories can be read as symbols of venereal disease, capitalism, immigration, industrialization, colonialism, AIDS, homosexuality, mental illness, anti-Semitism, technology or class warfare. “The vampire myth’s power is that we can use it as a metaphor and a language to talk about the problems of our world,” says William Patrick [...]

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Don Henrie!

Hello everyone! So, I was watching the Tyra Banks show on Friday and her show was about Vampires. Don Henrie, who considers himself a vampire and drinks blood was her first guest. I thought it was veryyyyy interesting and that I should share with the rest of you. Here is the link if you want [...]

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What makes the modern Vampire?

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96356392   This is an interesting report about how vampires are “…a perfect reflection of the culture that creates them.” and how when you look at vampires from any year you can see what was frightening culture.   This point is interesting, however, I don’t think the report goes into it enough. A contributor mentions [...]

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Twilight!

http://www.twilightthemovie.com/ This is a link to the “official” Twilight movie site with a really great trailor! Watch it and let me know if you would be interested in going with me and a couple of my other friends who are Twilight fans on November 21. If you don’t know, Twilight is the first book in Stephanie [...]

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Dracula’s side

While reading Dracula I became really curious as to why Bram Stoker narrated his book from only a few individuals view point.  The book took in a form from either a diary entry or letter coming from Lucy, Mina, Jonathan or Dr. Seward but not from who the title is named after. I, out of all [...]

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Alex Bryce October 20, 2008 Blog Post #6 (sorry for the spelling/grammar errors!) I’ve heard from a couple of kids (both within and without the class) that they weren’t particularly enthused with Dracula. I admit that parts of the story bored me, especially the section with Mina and Lucy up until the introduction of Dr. [...]

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Question about Dracula

Alex Bryce October 20, 2008 Blog Post #5 I have a longer blog post planned for later, once I’ve finished reading the last few chapters of Dracula! However, something was bugging me when I was reading Dracula… I still don’t understand the significance of the dirt boxes that the human characters are hunting for. Does [...]

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A Thought on Skin Shows

Kate Coley I finally have found some time to blog! I know we have been discussing Frankenstein like craaazzzyy, and most of this stuff has been said already, but I really just wanted to get some ideas out there. Here goes… I really wanted to talk about something that was brought up in “Skin Shows” that [...]

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