Halloween Special 2021: The Dracula Thirst-Rankings
Ever wondered what Kayleigh and Catherine sound like without a script? Well, listen in as we finally do our ranking of the Read More
30 Oct 2021
Lord Byron and the Vampire Myth
Lord Byron, the peer, poet, and great social animal, was one of the leading writers of the Romantic movement and maybe its Read More
28 Aug 2021
The Brief and Fascinating Life of Lestat: The Musical
We introduced our podcast to the world of the living and undead with a deep-dive into Dance of the Vampires, one of Read More
31 Jul 2021
The Death and Afterlife of Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines
Vampires have never felt themselves restricted to one mere genre, let alone a single form of media. Aside from the thousands of Read More
26 Jun 2021
The Rise (And Fall) Of The Dark Universe
Vampires on the big screen come and go, the trend never fully dying out. After the glut of post-Twilight paranormal fiction tired Read More
29 May 2021
A Brief History of Nosferatu
Few films have defined cinematic horror as fully as Nosferatu, the 1922 silent film by German director F.W. Murnau. Widely believed to Read More
24 Apr 2021
The Plague: Vampires and Infection
For many centuries, death was a mystery, and dying a fearful force devoid of explanation. Some causes of death were deemed to be rooted in the supernatural or some sort of invading demonic force. Many who suffered from wasting diseases, anemia, tuberculosis, or cholera, for example, were misdiagnosed as the victims of vampiric attacks. After all, the symptoms fell in line with those superstitions: weight loss, coughing up blood, immense suffering. And then there were the epidemics of illness. Whole cities of people were wiped out in the bubonic plague. Outbreaks of cholera and flu decimated countries. Venereal diseases became widely feared and terrifyingly common across Europe and beyond. In the 1600s, as the plague claimed millions of lives, the cause was unknown, although we now know that the disease was carried by rats and fleas. The myth of the vampire, as a result, grew all the more foreboding. What else could claim so many lives in one fell swoop but an inhuman creature of immeasurable evil?
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27 Mar 2021
DRACULA IN ISTANBUL
Consistently in print for over 120 years, Dracula has been translated into dozens of languages, and it is one of those translations that we're here to discuss today. What we expect from a translation is a stridently faithful process, nothing changed aside from the words themselves. In reality, the politics of translation are far more complex than that, with heavier questions of historical and cultural context to consider - more a more tangled process than simply going from one language to another. It's a gateway to reinterpretation and even total recreation of the tale in question. In the case of Dracula, one translation of the novel was so different that it took on a life of its own. In essence, it became one of the first true literary bootleg novels. This is the story of Dracula in Istanbul.
24 Feb 2021
DANCE OF THE VAMPIRES
Vampire musicals never work. It's one of the deep-seated rules of Broadway theatre. There are many examples that prove this assertion, but today, we're taking a look at the one that started it all. What happens when you take one of German-language theatre’s biggest hits and add a hefty dose of Broadway egos, bad puns, feuding producers, and lifelong grudges? You get one of the biggest financial flops in musical history. This is the story of Dance of the Vampires.
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